Tickling your spirits

Tickle gin has the potential to tickle your sense of undiluted joy. The wonderful liquid took 24 months in the making through many trial stages and taste tests. This gin has recently flowed from the Goa-based Adinco Distilleries.

This dry gin from the state of Goa uses botanicals from across the country. It has infusion of Himalayan juniper, orange peel, cardamom, cinnamon, coriander seeds, clove and even black pepper grown in the factory plantation of Adinco Distilleries. Adinco is a family-owned multi-spirit boutique distillery, which prides itself on producing alcoholic beverages of impeccable quality.

“Tickle gin has been bottled at 42.8 percent V/V and has soul warming hint from ingredients such as black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, coriander seeds, orange peels, and cloves,” informed Solomon Diniz, the Managing Director, Adinco Distilleries while adding, “These botanicals are sourced from my backyard and from across Kerala and Maharashtra.”

Juniper and Others

According to him, Tickle redefines and pushes the boundaries of what a typical gin should taste like. “The dry gin is perfectly crafted to balance the  dominating burst of Juniper with unfolding of bouquet of spices with citrus crown finish,” Solomon asserted.

Tickle is produced using the cold extraction method which, according to Solomon, “facilitates maintaining the characteristics of the spices in the gin and enables the spirit to be infused with a certain freshness”.

“Most of the gins out there focus around the additional flavouring and not so much on the Juniper infusion,” opined Solomon. The entrepreneur expressed that he intentionally didn’t experiment much on the botanicals, but the gin beautifully encapsulates the right Indian botanical mix, while capturing the strong experience of the Piney Juniper in every serve.

Aroma of Raw Mango

Due to the amalgamation of citrus flavours and spices, the gin exudes aroma of raw mango, which can remind many of us born before 1980s of the summer holidays filled with innocent fun.

In fact, one of the distinctions of this gin that caught the nose of Solomon was the reminiscence of the aroma of raw mangoes from his childhood, for which he remembered having craving in every monsoon season. The coriander, cardamom and a savoury cinnamon give a bold tang to the beverage, with notes of candied orange peels to soften the ends, the old fashioned way.

“I grew up helping my family make good quality spirits in our farm in Goa, and so while thinking about what a gin from true Goan roots would taste like, there was an impetus for using fresh locally grown ingredients,” he observed.

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