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    NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE

    Apr 22, 2022 4 minutes
    BY DAVID T. SMITH

    Some flavour profiles are more obvious than others – “citrus” and “floral” spring to mind – but some can be more obscure: smoke, for instance. Smoke was originally going to be included within my exploration of the savoury flavour profile, but after a little preliminary investigation, it seemed worthy of its own entry in this compendium of gin characters.

    Smoky and smoked gins are certainly on the rise. One of the earliest was released by Corsair in 2013 and was unlike any gin that I had tried up to that point. Full of smoked meat and smoked cheese aromas, it was fair to say that it wasn’t for everyone, but maybe it was just ahead

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