I've occasionally wondered why there are a couple of different Gordons bottle designs, so it's nice to have the answer! Pity to hear that they've stopped caring as much
The Travellers edition that used to be available until recently in Europe (and online in the UK) was the original strength from Hemingway's days . 47.3% . It makes much better martinis. Dunno why Gordons would stop making it.
Gordon's is great for a Churchill martini. Seriously, it is nice to go back to as a basic gin reference once in a while after spending too long with higher end gins. However, here where I am we still have it in the clear bottle at 43% so I don't know how similar it is to your modern stuff. What I have here sounds a lot more like your 70s bottle.
Great video. It would be interesting to see you try the two again in larger/wider glasses like a tumbler. I'm thinking the ethanol hit you mentioned on the nose of the 1970s bottle would tame down a bit and it would pull ahead of the modern bottle even more.
When I started drinking gin and tonic, Gordon's in the yellow label was what I started with because it was cheaper. I'm glad I moved up to Tanquaray and Beefeater. So much nicer. I add lime or lemon sour.
I used to drink neat Gordon's from a half green bottle in the seventies, it was 40 percent and had a distinctive juniper aroma...wonderful stuff!... and an infinitely different and superior drink to characterless white spirit on offer today!
I once tried a 40 year old vodka. I think I would have enjoyed paint thinner a bit better. I still remember that lady at CR who left in a huff because we didn’t sell Gordon’s. 🤣
Yikes, I drank Gordon's many years ago at a friend's and it had that yellow label with the juniper berry border and I really liked it. If it had that label does it mean it was old or did they use that label more modernly??
Before the pandemic, I commandeered a disused classroom at my university to serve as an office. I don't know how long the classroom had gone unused, and can only estimate at somewhere between five and five hundred and five years. Anyway, opening the cupboard beside the lectern for the first time in however many years, I happened upon a half empty bottle of Gordon's, presumably left over from when the previous occupant had to deal with terrible terrible students. Anyway, it's a really old bottle, and might provide some idea of how the gin has changed over time. You want it?
I've occasionally wondered why there are a couple of different Gordons bottle designs, so it's nice to have the answer! Pity to hear that they've stopped caring as much
It's the depressing consequence of high demand - you can get away with more.
The Travellers edition that used to be available until recently in Europe (and online in the UK) was the original strength from Hemingway's days . 47.3% . It makes much better martinis. Dunno why Gordons would stop making it.
Gordon's is great for a Churchill martini. Seriously, it is nice to go back to as a basic gin reference once in a while after spending too long with higher end gins. However, here where I am we still have it in the clear bottle at 43% so I don't know how similar it is to your modern stuff. What I have here sounds a lot more like your 70s bottle.
Great video. It would be interesting to see you try the two again in larger/wider glasses like a tumbler. I'm thinking the ethanol hit you mentioned on the nose of the 1970s bottle would tame down a bit and it would pull ahead of the modern bottle even more.
Great suggestion!
When I started drinking gin and tonic, Gordon's in the yellow label was what I started with because it was cheaper. I'm glad I moved up to Tanquaray and Beefeater. So much nicer. I add lime or lemon sour.
Good combo!
In Australia Gordons Gin and Soda is 4% ABV.
Pretty standard for RTD'S here too.
I used to drink neat Gordon's from a half green bottle in the seventies, it was 40 percent and had a distinctive juniper aroma...wonderful stuff!... and an infinitely different and superior drink to characterless white spirit on offer today!
Lol I love Gordons!! Over many other "high end" gins. But I will also admit I have a commoners palate.
Hey no judgement - I'm a cask bitter lad through and through!
We still have the original gordon bottle, here in south africa.
I once tried a 40 year old vodka. I think I would have enjoyed paint thinner a bit better.
I still remember that lady at CR who left in a huff because we didn’t sell Gordon’s. 🤣
There were so many huffing Karens I lost count.
They could name the place Karén Royal
Yikes, I drank Gordon's many years ago at a friend's and it had that yellow label with the juniper berry border and I really liked it. If it had that label does it mean it was old or did they use that label more modernly??
They still use that label - the yellow indicates it's an export bottling. You can sometimes pick them up at travel retail.
@@JohnsDrams Now I'm doing understands.
Do you ever get anything from justminiatures.co.uk ?
Actually no....
Before the pandemic, I commandeered a disused classroom at my university to serve as an office. I don't know how long the classroom had gone unused, and can only estimate at somewhere between five and five hundred and five years. Anyway, opening the cupboard beside the lectern for the first time in however many years, I happened upon a half empty bottle of Gordon's, presumably left over from when the previous occupant had to deal with terrible terrible students. Anyway, it's a really old bottle, and might provide some idea of how the gin has changed over time. You want it?
Hiding booze in cupboards is very much how I'd teach.
Who am I kidding? I'd have an optic of whisky hung next to the whiteboard.
Your video audio has gotten worse as well as the gin
You're telling me. I'm waiting on a new part for the microphone.