Description
When Jerry Thomas wrote the first cocktail book of all time in 1860, the London Dry style did not exist. Thomas mixed all of his gin cocktails with Old Tom Gin. These 19th century Gins were lightly sweetened and were often stored in old wine barrels. An Old Tom had more body and volume than today’s gins.
Especially in cocktails with vermouth and bitter liqueurs, these gins perform great. They are great sipping gins, neat or on the rocks.
We have never tried a real Old Tom from this time, but our approach is the fruit of our imagination.
Many current Old Toms are not barrelled. Wood and fruit are not friends, often the oak stands out against the fine fruit aromas and dominates too much.
The barrels in which we store our Old Tom had already been filled with three vintages of Mallorcan red wines. So the wine had already absorbed many wooden tannins and toasting flavors, leaving a bit of its fruitiness and colour in the barrels. After six months of barreling we bottled. The Gin has a nice amber colour, wood and fruit are a perfect symbiosis, carried by 20g / l of resi- dual sugar.
You should buy an edition of Jerry Thomas “The Bon-Vivant's Companion” and try one of his cocktails, for example a Martinez (an ancestor of the Dry Martini), or a Tom Collins with our Old Tom. Negronis or even better, Porronis, taste outstanding.
Producer Overview
Gin Eva is an artisan gin distilled in Mallorca, but mostly it is a tribute to the Mediterranean spirit and its people. We created our gin to capture all the Mediterranean flavors we love and we are happy to share it with you.
The first gin (Mallorca's first gin ever) was produced in our distillery in 2012, when husband and wife team Eva Maier and Stefan Winterling started experimenting with spirits and botanicals in their small garage, surrounded by a junkyard and a cement factory.
Ten years later we moved into a new facility in 2022, still in the commercial area of Llucmajor, where we feel at home. That’s why we call our distillery “Casa Eva”. Our doors are always open and we look forward to your visit.
In addition to our classic Gin Eva with the red label, we created other special editions. The first edition is our olive gin, “La Mallorquina”, which won first place at the World Gin Awards in London in 2019 as World’s Best Signature Botanical Gin. At the same time, the red label was voted the best gin in Spain.
The unique taste of Gin Eva comes from Mallorcan juniper berries, botanicals and locally grown citrus fruits.
All ingredients are distilled in a traditional copper still by Eva and Stefan, a Catalan oenologist and a German winemaker.
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