Rives Sloe Gin: Dark Ruby Liqueur from Spain's 1880 Distillery with Selected Sloe Berries
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Rives Sloe Gin is a Sloe gin made by Destilerías Rives in Spain. ABV: 25% ABV. Key botanicals include juniper, sloe berry, coriander, angelica, cassia. Our expert rating is 7/10.
Tasting Notes
Nose
Fragrant sloe and juniper — a little spirit warmth, the 100-year-old John Dore still gin base providing depth
Palate
Off-dry and crisp — medicinal berry flavours in the best sense, the Rives gin base adding botanical complexity beneath the sloe fruit, tangy and fresh
Finish
Lingering tangy fresh sloe — the berries persisting with clean juniper, refreshing and moreish
Expert Review
7/10Selected sloe berries soaked in Rives gin — produced since 1880 in El Puerto de Santa María. A dark ruby liqueur with fragrant sloe and juniper on the nose, off-dry crisp berry flavours, and a lingering tangy fresh finish. Spain's answer to England's sloe gin tradition.
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