Elephant Gin
Gin Elephant Navy Strength
€46,55
Format : 500ml
Graduation : 57%
Origin : Germany
Temperature : 0-10°
Color : Clear
Notes : Balsamic, aromatic, viscous texture.
Elephant Strength is Elephant Gin’s take on a “Navy Strength”, based on the award-winning Elephant London Dry Gin. At 57% ABV it is stronger and more intense than the original, whilst retaining its smooth, balanced character on the palate. It is made using twice as many botanicals, with a particular focus on bucco, sweet orange peel and mountain pine needles with their herbaceous note. As always with Elephant Gin, no detail is overlooked and so too the bottles of this new release are named after the “Magnificent Seven”: the strongest and most impressive elephants found in the Kruger National Park in South Africa, whose tusks weigh over 50kg each. Kambaku, Joao Dzombo, Mafunyane, Ndlulamithi, Shawu, Shingwedzi are sadly no more but Elephant Gin wants these legends to live on in the Elephant Strength label. The origins of Navy Strength gins take us back to the 18th century when gin was extremely popular throughout the United Kingdom; so popular that the Royal Navy established that a minimum quantity of gin had to be carried on board each ship. Not trusting greedy merchants, the English naval officers began to test its quality by wetting gunpowder with the distillate. If it burned, it meant that the gin had not been diluted with too much water and the strength reflected at least 57%. Elephant Gin contributes 15% of its profits to the activities of the three foundations Big Life Foundation, Space For Elephants and Sheldrick Wildlife Trust which are dedicated to the conservation of the African elephant to protect it from extinction.
Graduation : 57%
Origin : Germany
Temperature : 0-10°
Color : Clear
Notes : Balsamic, aromatic, viscous texture.
Elephant Strength is Elephant Gin’s take on a “Navy Strength”, based on the award-winning Elephant London Dry Gin. At 57% ABV it is stronger and more intense than the original, whilst retaining its smooth, balanced character on the palate. It is made using twice as many botanicals, with a particular focus on bucco, sweet orange peel and mountain pine needles with their herbaceous note. As always with Elephant Gin, no detail is overlooked and so too the bottles of this new release are named after the “Magnificent Seven”: the strongest and most impressive elephants found in the Kruger National Park in South Africa, whose tusks weigh over 50kg each. Kambaku, Joao Dzombo, Mafunyane, Ndlulamithi, Shawu, Shingwedzi are sadly no more but Elephant Gin wants these legends to live on in the Elephant Strength label. The origins of Navy Strength gins take us back to the 18th century when gin was extremely popular throughout the United Kingdom; so popular that the Royal Navy established that a minimum quantity of gin had to be carried on board each ship. Not trusting greedy merchants, the English naval officers began to test its quality by wetting gunpowder with the distillate. If it burned, it meant that the gin had not been diluted with too much water and the strength reflected at least 57%. Elephant Gin contributes 15% of its profits to the activities of the three foundations Big Life Foundation, Space For Elephants and Sheldrick Wildlife Trust which are dedicated to the conservation of the African elephant to protect it from extinction.
