Floral and sweet, but exceptionally well balanced. Each botanical is noticeable and each adds something to the drink. Bloom is a solid gin for the learning gin-taster as its a masterclass in botanical balance.
The nose is mild, almost neutral, while the palate shows juniper, white flowers and anise, breezing into a gentle finish brushed with white pepper and the merest hint of grapefruit peel. Save that pretty pale-green bottle to showcase some spring flowers.
Amazing. Bloom had been previously described to me as “floral,” but unlike, say, Nolet’s, which is full of perfumy rose petals, Bloom is floral only in the sense of standing in a rain-soaked meadow full of wildflowers.
I am really attached to the light flavour of Bloom Gin. I was worried when I tasted the spirit that the juniper would be lost within its floral construct; but rather than finding the raetam diminished, I found its piny spirit had been complemented by the botanicals within the Bloom.
