Junipero Gin is 49.34 abv. / 98.6 proof and is made by Anchor Distilling Co. in San Francisco, the same folks who make the excellent Anchor Steam Beer and other fine brews. It has "more than a dozen" botanicals according to their website.The aroma is very light, almost not present at all until I pressed my nose deep into the snifter. Then I got a slight but sharp alcohol smell with just the faintest trace of juniper and some unknown spices. I kept on sniffing the gin for a few minutes, trying to discern what the components of the aroma were. I spun and circled my glass so the spirit would coat the inside, so more would evaporate and the aroma would increase, but to no avail.
Finally I kept the snifter in my hand until it started to warm up and finally the nose of the spirit started to come out. I could smell faint spices, and some sharp juniper notes. I put down the glass so that I could type and picked it up again a minute later and the glass had cooled down and the aroma faded. So I started warming it up all over again. I have never had such a fight to bring out a gins aroma before. This was becoming an epic struggle indeed.
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