McQueen and The Violet Fog Gin Sotol using an antique copper still

using an antique copper still from Germany—named Ashley—to create no less than three varieties of Gin

aged a minimum of three years in new oak

Bowmore’s classic Single Malt aged to twenty-seven years of perfection with half of that in Port pipes

This year’s Compass Box Gift Set is a collection of three very different offerings

it sips like it’s ten to eleven years old — but this is a single cask release

McQueen and The Violet Fog Gin Sotol using an antique copper stillA different kind of Gin from Brazil. McQueen and The Violet Fog Gin is created 6,000 miles away from the traditional Gin centre of the world. Its produced in a single copper pot still in the hills of Jundia in Brazil. Let us tell you, nothing about this offering is traditional. The guys behind this Gin wanted to dig deeper and flip the script as they put it. A list of twenty one exotic botanicals alone is bound to get your attention with stuff like