Lone Wolf Gin is £31.95 at The Whisky Exchange and also stocked in Tesco and Sainsbury’s if those are more your (5p) bag. So sod Peter, Susan, Lucy and that fucking Faun. Your attentiveness makes this all worthwhile. Oh, yeah, well done if you saw the Narnia metaphor coming. If that’s not Lone Wolf Gin in the Witch’s magic hipflask, I don’t know what it is. This is the kind of thing that got Edmund into deep shit in The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, gobbling Turkish Delight while being whisked through the snowy forests by the queen of ice. If you squint your tastebuds, there’s rose in there.
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The pine and juniper heavies mug you at the beginning, in that charming mockney way of theirs - don’t worry, they won’t break the skin - and afterwards, as you lie there in the gutter, blissfully concussed, you’re in for a long, toasty-warm, creamy-dreamy finish - I’m talking ten, twenty seconds (exhausting, eh?) - during which the taste becomes ever more sweet and perfumed. Therefore I went for a Duke’s Hotel-style martini (no pissing around with ice and stirring, just a freezer-cold glass, rinsed with a little vermouth, freezer-cold gin poured straight on, large lemon twist) and, Christ alive, it’s good. I was impatient - and so are you, because you already know it’s going to be good. Which makes it no surprise at all that this egocentric gin should excel in the context of… The Lone Wolf Martini This is a Lone Wolf, after all, not a goddamn Pack Wolf. Work around it as I did above, or (perhaps more sensibly) save it for drinks where gin is unquestionably the focus. With Campari, there’s a bit of a clash (two motormouths at a dinner party).
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Rather damn nice.īottom line, though: Lone Wolf is not ideal for a Negroni, primarily because it’s too damn full of flavour itself. This made for a hugely superior drink: quite a distance from the typical Negroni, but balanced, complex, strong.
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I also - as is my wont - substituted Sacred Rosehip Cup for Campari. You may recall that I have an open bottle of Asterley Brothers English Vermouth lingering lugubriously in my fridge and that works far better. What you need to make a Lone Wolf Negroni work is a similarly assertive vermouth. There may well be good stuff involved, in other words, but you’re not getting the benefit. The Cocchi is crowded out (except for its sweetness), resulting in a Negroni with a thudding bass, a bit of shrill treble, but not much filling out the mid-range - like listening to your neighbours’ amorous antics the other side of your bedroom wall. My first attempt was terrible: equal measures of Lone Wolf Gin, Campari and Cocchi Vermouth di Torino. The Negroni game is harder to play with a bossy bastard like Lone Wolf.
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Lone Wolf G&T Verdict The Lone Wolf Negroni I’d suggest serving it with lemon (or grapefruit if you have one kicking about) - or you could chuck in a sprig of rosemary if you want to amp up the woody stuff even further. It’s not exotic (the prominence of pine is the most strikingly atypical thing about it, but it still very much tastes like gin), and the hoofing deep/dark flavours are nicely cut with citrus, keeping it from being too gruff. With Fever Tree Light, things are just slightly more perfunctory. Regular smooths and softens it just a little, teasing out some warmth, some voluptuousness. I think I prefer it with Fever Tree Regular Tonic, though it’s good with Light Tonic too. This is how I like a G&T: powerful, serious, uncompromising. Cold, dark, coniferous forests fragrant in a winter downpour. With both types of tonic, it tastes far stronger than the Tanqueray (itself hardly mimsy).
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Zounds! The Lone Wolf Gin and Tonic is a belter. I also made G&Ts with Tanqueray, which I used as a frame of reference against which to compare, and certainly not an excuse to have more gin and tonic.
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I mixed one Lone Wolf G&T with Fever Tree Light Tonic Water and one with Fever Tree Regular. My usual G&T for gin review purposes is 1 measure of gin to 2 of tonic. This is a gin that’ll have you reeling.Īnd that’s good, alright? Lone Wolf Gin and Tonic So punchy, in fact, that it punches a hole through the gin-o-gram and splits the (stone) table it was sitting on. Lone Wolf falls squarely into the punchy quadrant of the Old Parn gin-o-gram. But we’re here to talk about the booze, not the bizniz, aren’t we? So let’s get on with it. Depending upon your feelings about those publicity-hungry scamps Brewdog, you’ll either be heartened or dismayed (or, perhaps, a complex and unsettling mixture of the two) to know that Lone Wolf Gin is affiliated to the aforementioned company. Come in! Come in! Fortunate favourite of Old Parn - or else not so fortunate.