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Botanical curiosity, obsessive pursuit of unparalleled quality, numerous expeditions on the hunt for unexpected aromas, Species Rara – et voilà, MONKEY 47 Distiller’s Cut!
For 2024 the team came across their "48th ingredient" while having dinner at an Italian restaurant. How? With a classic dish: pasta with anchovies and capers. As they were enjoying the capers, they realised that they provide a fine symphony of flavours and are more than just a garnish. So they set off in search of the best capers and ended up on the small volcanic island of Pantelleria, right in the middle of the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
Caper bushes grow in the Mediterranean in their ideal climate. The fruit looks like a berry, with purple seeds and bright red flesh; this is the caper berry, which is actually the shoot before it turns into a flower. The closed flower bud is harvested shortly before it blooms and is immediately placed in salt, dehydrated and the water is removed. This first salting is crucial for developing that typical, tangy and slightly pungent flavour. For the second salting, which helps with the maturing process, the capers are skimmed off batch by batch, transferred to fresh vats and left in new salt for around a month with daily mixing. This is how the capers get their unique and distinctive flavour: nutty, pure and elegant, with a pronounced sweetness and an intense aroma.
Rinsed capers were added to MONKEY 47's complex and lengthy maceration and distillation process to produce the exclusive Distiller’s Cut, which they make only once a year. It epitomises their ambition to push the boundaries of what is possible when carefully selected botanicals are crafted into a limited edition product that touches the senses and makes the hearts of bartenders and gin lovers beat faster.
The MONKEY 47 Distiller’s Cut 2024 is a spicy and elegant dry gin, with a hint of the sea, sweetly nutty, against a background of exceptional density and complexity. It is a remarkable flavour experience, and not only for those who want to think themselves away onto that island in the Mediterranean.
