Turicum
Wood Barreled Dry Gin
- Turicum Distillery GmbH
- Zürich
Cask-agedSpicedSweet-leaning
Barrel time shows first: warm oak, a little vanilla and dry spice over the juniper. The dry gin bones are still there — pine, citrus peel, pepper on the finish — but rounder and slightly sweet from the wood. Tastes closer to a light spirit than a bright London Dry.
Serve
1:2 — keep it short so the oak isn't washed out
Garnish — Orange peel
Cocktails
Negroni
Bitter first, then sweet: Campari's rind-and-root edge held up by the vermouth's dark, herbal sugar. The gin has to push through both, so juniper and a firm backbone read clearly where softer florals get buried. Stirred over ice, it drinks cold and slow, the orange peel lifting the bitterness.
The wood-aged weight of this Zurich dry gin stands up to Campari and vermouth where an unaged gin thins out, and the oak vanilla softens the bitter edge.
Martinez
Sweet vermouth leads here, dark and herbal, with maraschino adding a nutty cherry weight underneath and orange bitters lifting the finish. It drinks rich and slow, more sipping than sharp. The gin needs backbone — juniper and spice enough to cut the sugar — or the vermouth simply swallows it.
Barrel vanilla and dry oak spice slot straight into the maraschino's nutty cherry weight, and the wood-rounded body carries the sweet vermouth without the pine and pepper backbone getting swallowed.
Pink Gin
Gin, cold and nearly neat, with bitters clinging to the glass rather than mixed through it. The aromatic spice sits on top — clove, cinnamon, a dry bitter edge — while the gin carries everything beneath. Nowhere to hide: juniper and weight have to hold the whole drink up.
Served nearly neat it drinks like a light aged spirit, so the angostura's clove and cinnamon land on the oak rather than fighting it, with the juniper and citrus peel still holding the base up.
