Full Review

Tamar

Tamar
Arabian Dates Gin

Category: Old Tom Gin

Date Tasted:
Country: Luxembourg
Alcohol: 42%
95 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$42

Tamar
Arabian Dates Gin

Category: Old Tom Gin

Date Tasted:
Country: Luxembourg
Alcohol: 42%
Clear color. Aromas and flavors of figs, plum and dates, fruity hookah smoke, and blackberry with a round, lively, dry medium body and a tingling, compelling, medium-long finish conveying accents of figs, dates, and orange paste, baking spices, juniper and pepper, and purple flowers. Uniquely pleasant with limitless potential cocktail applications; the strong spiced dried fruit aroma and flavor is undeniably delicious.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Spicy & Complex
Aroma Aroma: figs, plum and dates, fruity hookah smoke, and blackberry
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with accents of figs, dates, and orange paste, baking spices, juniper and pepper, and purple flowers
Smoothness Smoothness: Tingling
Enjoy Enjoy: in cocktails, neat and on the rocks
Cocktail Cocktails: Gin Martini, Gimlet, French 75
Bottom Line Bottom Line: Uniquely pleasant with limitless potential cocktail applications; the strong spiced dried fruit aroma and flavor is undeniably delicious.

The Producer

For-Ol Invest sàrl

The Producer

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95 Tamar Arabian Dates Gin 42% (Luxembourg) $42.00.

Old Tom Gin

Spirits Glass Rock Clear.jpg
Serve in a Rocks Glass
Old Tom Gin is the last remaining example of the original lightly sweetened gins that were so popular in 18th-century England. The name comes from what may be the first example of a beverage vending machine. In the 1700s some pubs in England would have a wooden plaque shaped like a black cat (an "Old Tom") mounted on the outside wall. Thirsty passersby would deposit a penny in the cat’s mouth and place their lips around a small tube between the cat’s paws. The bartender inside would then pour a shot of Gin through the tube and into the customer’s waiting mouth. Until fairly recently limited quantities of Old Tom-style Gin were still being made by a few British distillers, but they were, at best, curiosity items.