Dada Chapel Organic Dry Gin

One botanical, and nothing else. Dada Chapel Distillery in Ghent distils this organic dry ginDry ginGin with no perceptible sweetness: in the European Union, the word "dry" allows at most 0.1 g of sugar per litre.GlossarySee Dry gin gins exclusively from organic juniper berries and organic wheat alcohol, with no other botanicals, no sugar, no flavouring and no colouring. The recipe is a deliberate return to the core of what gin is, leaving the quality of the raw materials and of the distillation to define the spirit.

Organic · Dry · Herbal · Earthy

Stripping the recipe back to juniper exposes everything the berry can do on its own. Juniper is not a single note: it carries pine-like resin, a peppery edge, citrus hints and an earthy, woody depth, and without other botanicals to share the stage, all of those facets come forward. The distillery's approach rests on purity and transparency in ingredients and process, and the bottling strength of 47.4% gives the juniper oils plenty of alcohol to carry them. Organic wheat provides a clean, neutral base, which matters when there is nothing else to hide behind.

On the nose the profile is direct and intense, marked by juniper with resinousResinousAn aroma reminiscent of pine or fir resin. It is juniper's signature, due to compounds such as pinene.Glossary and earthy undertones.

The palate is powerful yet clean, dominated by juniper oils that deliver herbal depth and a firm, dry structure. The texture is rich and slightly oily, the finish long and persistent, the earthy and herbal notes fading slowly. Because the gin carries so much juniper oil and is left unfilteredUnfiltered ginThe essential oils of the peels and plants stay in the gin: when chilled or mixed with tonic they turn it slightly cloudy, like pastis (the "louche" effect).Glossary, it can turn cloudy when water or tonic is added. That louche is a sign of the oils left in the spirit, not a defect.

East Imperial Burma Tonic Water gives the concentrated juniper a partner that does not compete. A rosemary sprig singed for a moment adds a resinous, warm aroma close to juniper's own register. Keep the garnish to that single sprig, because the whole point of the bottle is to taste juniper clearly.