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
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