My 2015 sloe gin is going down very nicely, thank you. I'm no gin connoisseur l, so it may not reach exacting Mrs Pingu standards. It's fruity, clear and delicious enough for me though.
TBH, I only let sloe gin past my lips for the 2nd time in October. The first time, about a squllion years ago, was before the craft gin revival had been invented, and I really didn't like it. So I'm not really a sloe gin connoisseur, and I've never had homemade stuff (dunno if we get sloes up here?)
Never been much of a fan either (flavoured gins in general – I'll accept things like the rhubarb gin because it's actual rhubarb in the botanicals rather than base gin with flavour added after the fact).
Tonight, as I'm staying in with my wife, the cats, a curry I've yet to make, and a box set of
Back of the Future (too old to be schlepping into London to stand in the cold waiting for fireworks and watching people puke, and every where else involves weeks of travel and a taxi bill that would probably buy me a luxury flat in E8), I'll be doing some samplings from the back of the gin cupboard, and I've put my bottle of Tactical Nuclear Penguin in the fridge for a little bit of cooling. I'll switch off the internet before I get through that.
