I am pleased to introduce you to the sixth (I can't believe there are now that many!) gin to come from Cornwall. This one is made from probably one of the county's best known icons; clotted cream! The gin, called Wrecking Coast Gin, takes it name from the coastline in Tintagel where the distillery is located called, unsurprisingly, The Wrecking Coast. Creating a gin from clotted cream is hardly a standard practice so the Wrecking Coast Distillery had to engineer a unique approach to combat the cream burning and producing a caramel taste when heated to the temperature distillation normally occurs at. In essence, they had to create the gin around the cream. In order to capture the silky, rich nature of Cornish clotted cream, the distillery had a glass vacuum made to their specific instructions that is capable of distilling the neutral spirit and fresh clotted cream together below room temperature. This stops the cream from burning and retains the flavours of the clotted cream together with its velvety mouth feel. This is an extremely small batch process so only tiny quantities can be made at a time but the end result is certainly worth it. Wrecking Coast Distillery use 12 undisclosed botanicals and rest them for at least 14 days in grain spirit. The liquid is then transferred an iStill from Holland to produce the gin. Once run through the still its rested for at least another 7 days to allow all the flavours to stabilise. After that, the handcrafted clotted cream spirit is added and diluted with Cornish Natural Spring Water to produce a velvety smooth spirit at around 44% before bottling.
Smooth on the palette and velvety rich in the mouth, Wrecking Coast handcrafted small-batch clotted cream gin delivers a distinctly Cornish flavour. You can enjoy this straight up with ice or with tonic and strawberry as a garnish or simply a zest of lemon. The gin is smooth but the botanicals are well balanced with the cream and deliver a surprising punch. The Wrecking Coast Gin is available in 70cl bottles or in 35cl bottles which you can buy by following the links.