Salcombe Gin
Rosé Sainte Marie
- Salcombe Distilling Co.
- Devon
- 41.4% ABV
- dry rosé gin
- 700 ml
- Macedonian juniper berries, STRAWBERRIES, orange, LEMON, pink peppercorns, ROSE PETALS, lemon verbena, lavender
Berry / red fruitSavoury / coastal
A rosé-style gin: the Sainte Marie name and pink cast point to soft red berry fruit over the juniper rather than in place of it. At 41.4% it drinks dry, not sweet — berry skin and a little citrus peel up front, juniper and a clean, slightly saline finish behind, in keeping with Salcombe's coastal house style.
Serve
Fever-Tree Mediterranean Tonic
1:2 — light and floral, so it doesn't bury the pink fruit
Garnish — A slice of strawberry
Cocktails
Bramble
A gin sour with blackberry bleeding down through the crushed ice: sharp lemon first, then dark sweet fruit at the bottom of the glass. The liqueur is heavy and sweet, so the gin has to push back — juniper and bite carry through where a softer floral bottle just gets buried.
Rosé Sainte Marie already carries red berry fruit, so the crème de mûre extends the gin instead of masking it, and 41.4% is enough spine to keep the lemon tart.
Pink Gin & Tonic Spritz
A long, dry, faintly bitter drink: the angostura tints the gin pink and pulls a spiced edge through the tonic's quinine, while the sparkling wine adds weight and a dry, yeasty tartness. Grapefruit sharpens the finish. The gin needs juniper and backbone to read through three competing bitternesses.
Strawberry and rose petal are built for a sparkling wine lengthener, and the saline Salcombe finish keeps the drink dry where the pink fruit could turn confected.
Bee's Knees
Honey rounds off the citrus edges, so the sour never bites, and the orange juice softens the lemon while giving the drink weight. That ease is the problem the gin has to solve: juniper and pepper keep it from collapsing into breakfast, and a floral bottle finds room to speak inside the honey.
Honey gives the lavender, rose petal and lemon verbena somewhere to sit, and the pink peppercorns plus 41.4% stop it sliding into jam on toast.
