Gin Advent Calendar Day 3: A Review From Bed
3rd December 2024
Things have taken an (not so) unexpected turn.
MrsVark is down with a chronic fatigue / FND flare-up, which means she's spending the day horizontal and medicating with Pepto Bismol rather than gin. This leaves me in the unusual position of conducting today's review solo, from our bed, whilst she watches on like the designated driver on a hen night.
Not quite the festive experience I'd envisaged when I handed over £75.
Day 3: Tanqueray London Dry Gin
Today's offering is Tanqueray London Dry Gin, which is - and I'm aware of the irony here - one of MrsVark's favourite gins. She's genuinely gutted to be missing this one, though I suspect her disappointment is somewhat mitigated by not having to taste whatever horrors might still be lurking in the remaining nine drams.
After yesterday's lemon-sherbet cleaning product incident, a proper, classic London Dry feels like a return to sanity. Tanqueray is a serious gin. It's been around since 1830, it knows what it's doing, and it doesn't mess about trying to taste like a Fruit Pastille.
The tasting notes suggest juniper (obviously), coriander, angelica root, and liquorice. What I actually tasted was... gin. Proper gin. The sort of gin that reminds you why gin and tonic became a thing in the first place, rather than making you question your life choices.
It's smooth, it's balanced, and crucially, it doesn't smell like something you'd use to descale a kettle.
The Video
Here's the full review, complete with bedroom setting and MrsVark's cameo appearance as Invalid-in-Chief:
The Verdict So Far
Three days in, and we've had one excellent gin (Sipsmith), one chemical warfare incident (Gordon's Sicilian Lemon), and now one solid, dependable classic (Tanqueray).
That's a 67% success rate, which sounds reasonable until you remember this cost £75 and we've still got nine more to go. The law of averages suggests at least two more disasters are waiting in the wings.
On a positive note, Day 3 has renewed some belief. The question now is if that belief will hold up on Day 4.
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