Cocktail Like A Crawley With Gin From The Real-Life Downton Abbey!
by Celine Bossart · May 7, 2021
Downton Abbey fans, you might be accustomed to watching your favorite aristocrat sipping a liberal pour of Bordeaux, but the fascinating and, at times, tragic role of gin throughout England’s history can hardly be ignored. The origins of gin’s main botanical, juniper, can be traced all the way back to 70 AD, when alcoholic elixirs infused with the berry were commonly used for medicinal purposes (obviously).
Fast forward to 1689, when gin was already gaining serious popularity as King William III of England, a true buzzkill, placed heavy taxes and blockades on imports like French wines as a means of weakening the country’s economy. Joke’s on old Bill, because gin essentially became extremely cheap as a result. From there, everybody and their drunk uncle was trying to make a buck on the new craze unsurprisingly, this led to some extremely shady distillation practices (think
Celebrate The Announcement Of Downton Abbey 2 With This Gin Inspired By The Real-Life Downton Estate
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By Carly Sloane Langston Bowen
St. Patrick s Day is coming up and that means delicious drinks are in order! If you are in the mood to celebrate the holiday like we are, Adam von Gootkin, co-founder of Highclere Castle Gin, is here to teach you how to make two festive cocktails that will leave you feeling lucky!
Kevin Chen THE GIN FIZZ Highclere is perfect for a fizz due to it being a citrus-forward gin, von Gootkin tells ET exclusively. Having dialed back the juniper flavor, the Gin Fizz is exceptionally refreshing and perfect to welcome in the spring. It is both rich and exciting on the tongue, he adds.
Highclere Castle Spirits has transacted a payment with one of its distributors using
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), which the company said could be the first transaction within the U.S. spirits industry using cryptocurrency.
What Happened: The Essex, Connecticut-based Highclere Castle Spirits sold 10 cases of its Highclere Castle Gin to Heritage Wine and Spirits for sale into the Kentucky market. The companies plan to transact a larger order in the next few days that will also use bitcoin for compensation.
Adam von Gootkin, whose Julii Luxury Brands LLC created the award-winning Onyx Moonshine, co-founded Highclere Castle Spirits with Lord and Lady Carnarvon, the owners of Highclere Castle. The brand s gin is distilled in England using botanicals grown on the 5,000-acre estate, which is best known for the award-winning television series “Downton Abbey.”
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Gin Company Accepts First U.S. Bitcoin Payment from Distributor
February 25, 2021 GMT
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ESSEX, Conn., Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Highclere Castle Spirits and Heritage Wine and Spirits based out of Kentucky have transacted the first payment between supplier and distributor in Bitcoin. With Bitcoin near record highs, this is believed to be the first transaction in the world within the spirits industry.
Highclere Castle Spirits sold 10 cases of Highclere Castle Gin to Heritage Wine and Spirits for sale into the Kentucky market. The parties will transact a larger order in late February. This follows a growing trend of industries taking a forward-thinking approach to integrating cryptocurrency into their business model.
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