Kew Orangery Organic Triple Sec (700ml)

This delightful organic Triple Sec is named after the iconic 'Orangery' building at Kew Gardens, built in 1761. However the producers are better known as gin makers. So why a Triple-Sec? Simply, the distillers were loath to throw out all the orangey 'leftovers' from the Kew Gin recipes and besides, who wouldn't love a proper, organic, craft Triple Sec to use for their craft Margarita? The result, as expected from anything that comes from this distillery, is an antithesis of commercially produced examples. Firstly it's handcrafted over three months in small batches from organic oranges, hand cut and dehydrated in-house. Then, there's the fact that it is only lightly sweetened - try 60g/l, roughly a quarter of what the well-known brands use. Produced in conjunction with the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, Orangery is blended from three separate distillations of three types of orange, including Seville orange (hand cut and dehydrated in-house), blood orange and sweet orange peel, from Navel and/or Valencia etc., depending on the season. Each maceration is distilled separately before being blended, lightly sweetened and married in mature ex-Bourbon casks for a number of weeks. The spirit is then allowed to settle naturally before being bottled, unfiltered. It's a fresh, pure, intensely flavoured Triple-Sec and a welcome addition to the Kew/Dodd's stable. Drink as a refreshing apéritif over ice with a squirt of soda or tonic, or add some organic Orangery oomph to your Margarita or Cosmopolitan.

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