law premium dry gin
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Close your eyes...The scent of lemon blossoms, juniper, pine trees and heat wafts by your nostrils......you hear the cicadas singing...you feel the sun on your face......the salty breath of the sea...You are exactly where you want to be...
Ibiza!
Once you have been captivated by this sensation, it will never leave you.
Just like us, who have made our vision a reality – our vision of bottling this feeling.
For love of IbizaFor love of gin...
LAW is an elegant, premium-quality Dry Gin. Its clear, balanced aroma is inspired through and through by the Mediterranean nature of Ibiza. Its recipe combines the herbal notes of a traditi-onal gin. Best hand-picked juniper, green cardamom, coriander seeds, orris root, and Spanish cucumber combine harmoniously with those botanicals that not only surprise as gin flavours, but are also known as typical products of the island. For LAW Gin, we use predominantly local products of the best quality, as well as the island’s own pure spring water.
Juniper is the soul of every gin. In LAW, two species of juniper are combined to create a new taste experience, focused on the authentic Ibiza.
So in the distillation process, we process the best ber-ries of the common juniper (Juniperus communis). But also growing on Ibiza is another, lesser-known variety, the Phoenician juniper (Juniperus phoenicea), named after the seafarers of the same name who settled this island more than 2000 years ago.
However, since the taste of the Phoenician juniper do-minates any distillation, we use a gentler way of cap-turing its aroma. By allowing the condensed distillate to flow over the fresh berries, we enable it to take on a touch of its tangy note – for the essence of a genuine Ibiza Gin.
Juniper
Almost every commercial gin is produced with dried lemon peel. But not LAW.
Since Ibiza offers great quantities of oranges and lemons direct from the tree almost the who-le year round, LAW Gin benefits from the use fresh lemon peel. Harvested immediately before processing, only untreated fruits find their way into the still. Hand-picked, they originate from selected gro-ves in which the trees can thrive naturally, thanks to the sun, water and the famous red earth of our island.
Fresh Lemons & Oranges
One of the most important ingredients of LAW, and our secret “star”, is the prick-ly pear. An exotic delicacy that has made Ibiza its home for centuries, it is no longer possible to imagine the landscape of the island without it. Its delicious, bright red pith underlines the fruity note that makes LAW Gin itself, enjoyed in its neat form, a delight to the senses.
The harvesting of prickly pears, meanwhi-le, proves time and again to be one of the last great adventures, since not a millime-tre of skin is safe from the tiny, barbed spines of the fruits.
Prickly Pear
A botanical that is incredible but true: “Pi-mientos de Padrón”, that small, spicy type of pepper which is fried and sprinkled with coarse salt, and served throughout Spain as a form of tapas.
The green pods usually have quite a mild taste. Usually – but around every tenth spe-cimen is hellishly hot, which one would not expect from its appearance. On Ibiza, island of pirates and adventurers, we love this dish, in which every morsel becomes a kind of Russian roulette – and so naturally these little green devils belong in LAW Gin too...
Pimientos de Padrón
LAW Gin represents a premium quality gin of the “London Dry” category. We are commit-ted to using only natural ingredients, as well as to careful distillation on the basis of pure wheat alcohol. Without exception, we add no sugar or artificial flavourings.
In our manufactory, we produce only small quantities, of just a few hundred bottles per batch, because we are convinced that this is the only way that we can ensure the highest quality.
How it is made
We distil LAW in our traditional alembic. This original form of a copper still has been used throughout the Hispanic world since the Middle Ages, and goes back to the Moors. It manages entirely without modern measu-ring instruments such as pressure sensors or temperature probes, so that the result de-pends solely on the distiller’s judgment and instinct.
The botanicals are first of all macerated, and then carefully heated until the aromas vapori-se, combined with the alcohol. Through the copper neck of the alembic, they enter the cooling coil, in which the vapours liquefy once more. The LAW distillate then flows over a basket of Phoenician juniper berries, thus rounding off its characteristic taste. Finally, the gin is adjusted to its alcohol con-tent of 44% with water from the best Ibizan springs.
LAW gin is bottled, labelled and sealed indivi-dually, by hand. This way, each of the stylish pharmacy bottles, with their glass stoppers, becomes a small work of art, which we are proud of.
Still & Distillation
The name of LAW for our gin arose from our appreciation of Ibiza’s attitude to life.
“Ad libitum”, they say here: Each to his own. This has long since become a well-known saying, describing both a relaxed, unprejudiced spirit and an openness to different people and ideas. Today, this very special island is counted among the most tolerant places in the world.
It is not only the hippies of the last cen-tury who have been able to discover this for themselves, but also countless artists, free spirits, adventurers and tourists.Anyone who comes to Ibiza can be whoe-ver he likes and can represent whatever he likes, regardless of the colour of his skin, outlook or religion – as long as he grants everyone else the freedom to do the same... That is the unwritten law of Ibiza.
Why LAW?
Luna Alexander Wolfgang
LAW - Spirit of Ibiza S.L.Apartado 363
07840 Sta. Eulalia des RioIbiza / España
Distribution in IBIZA:Exclusivas MiróCtra. Aeropuerto Km607817 San JorgeIbiza / EspañaTel: +34 971 39 65 [email protected]