G'Vine Floraison Édition Spéciale Jaime Lorente

Special editions usually change the packaging and leave the liquid alone, and this one is honest about staying close to its source. Built with the actor Jaime Lorente, it keeps the Floraison identity intact: the same grape-based neutral spiritNeutral spiritAgricultural spirit rectified to at least 96% ABV, almost tasteless. It is the base later flavoured with botanicals.Glossary from the Cognac region, the same vine flower, the same refusal to let juniper dominate. Bottled at 40%.

Citrus · Limited Edition · Floral · Fruity

What the edition adjusts is emphasis rather than composition. The floral half remains the point, led by the vine flower that can only be gathered during the few days each summer when the vine is actually in bloom, and the citrus is brought slightly forward to add brightness and aromatic clarity around it. Juniper and coriander hold the frame beneath, present and deliberately restrained, and orange peel supplies the fruit that lifts the top. The result is a gin arranged around finesse rather than intensity, which is the same brief the original was written to.

The nose is delicate floral first, vine flower with a soft citrus zest behind it.

The palate arrives smooth and round, a light fruity touch, gentle spice, and a clean balanced structure that never lets the juniper take charge. The finish is fresh and elegant, floral and citrus impressions trailing off together.

A refined Gin and Tonic on a plain tonic preserves all of that, and drinking it undiluted is worth doing if the floral complexity is what brought you to this particular bottle rather than to the standard Floraison beside it. A collaboration bottle is easy to dismiss; this one at least did not rewrite a recipe that was already working. The vine flower stays the reason to open it at all, and the few days of harvest available each summer remain the reason there is never very much of it to go round.