Daffy's Red Gooseberry Limited Edition Gin

The Goddess of Gin adorns the bottles of Daffy's. We assume she's fairly similar to Dionysus just more junipery. You know Dionysus was in charge of wine, grape harvest, winemaking, ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy? That is a diverse CV, you would've thought that he might have wanted to specialise; put the religious ecstasy on the back burner for a semester to really give the wine the attention it deserves. Had he been a bit more focused he might have invented sparkling wine a couple of millennium earlier. Thankfully the Goddess of Gin seems to have had no such issue with distraction; this beautifully presented red gooseberry gin has a wonderful natural sweetness balanced with a refreshing tartness from the berry and citrus botanicals. Made by a true master not a jack of all trades.

"Daffy's Small Batch Premium Gin is made with grain spirit from northern France, then distilled using a copper pot still. The Scottish distillers use a selection of eight botanicals including juniper, Lebanese mint, coriander, angelica root, Spanish lemon and orange peels, cassia bark and orris root. The Goddess of Gin image was created for Daffy’s in 2014 by the artist Robert McGinnis, one of the world’s most iconic artists.




McGinnis started his career in the 1960s with works such as the movie posters for Breakfast at Tiffany’s, James Bond, Barbarella and many others. He is famed for his fine art and ability to capture the incredible beauty of his female muses.
Daffy’s distiller, Chris Molyneaux, studied the work of Robert McGinnis at the University of Edinburgh. Some years later, after working on the recipe for Daffy’s, Molyneaux contacted McGinnis in the hope that he would become involved in the quest to create the world’s best London Dry Gin. To his delight, the artist was fascinated by the idea and they have since become great friends. McGinnis had the vision to create the Goddess of Gin. After several paintings and sketches of Chris’ wife Mignonne, McGinnis immortalised her in the final design as the visualisation and personification of the taste, charm, sophistication, complexity and beauty of Daffy’s Gin.