Tanqueray London Dry Gin | 41.3% vol | 1L | Signature Recipe | Made with 4 Gin Botanicals | Enjoy in a Gin Glass with Ice & Tonic | Distilled 4 Times

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Tanqueray London Dry is one of the most awarded gins in the world and is still made today to the same classic recipe as when it was first created by Charles Tanqueray in 1830.The pineapple fruit was the ultimate symbol of hospitality in 1830s England and features in the Tanqueray family crest which adorns every bottle from the Tanqueray Distilling Company. The distillery on Goswell Road was rebuilt after the war ended and began to expand into the surrounding area. Eventually in the 1980s, the DC (a forerunner of Diageo) decided that it needed more space so the entire business was moved out to a new distillery but with the old stills in Laindon in Essex. So two of the most famous names in London distilling were now no longer in the capital. Then in 1995, all production moved up to Cameron Bridge in Scotland where both Tanqueray and Gordon’s are made to this day. Yes, these two icons of English distilling are in fact Scottish.

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The story of perhaps London’s most famous gin begins in France. David Tanqueray was a Protestant, or Huguenots as they were known, who fled his home in Normandy and came to London to escape religious persecution. In 1717 married Anne Willaume, the daughter of a Huguenot goldsmith to whom he was apprenticed in Spitalfields. One of their sons became a clergyman in Tingrith in Bedfordshire – the old rectory is now known as Tanqueray house – and one of his descendants was a certain David Tanqueray.After Charles Tanqueray died in 1868, his son Charles Waugh Tanqueray took over at the tender age of 20. He remained in charge right throughout the 19th century. The Gordon and Tanqueray families had long been close and in 1899 Charles Gordon and Charles Waugh Tanqueray (Charles was clearly a very popular name in Victorian England) decided to merge the two distilleries In 1899 they formed a new company Tanqueray, Gordon and Co. and production moved to Goswell Road in Clerkenwell, a mile or so east of this original distillery. He was meant to go into the church like his father but in 1830 took over a gin distillery on Vine Street (now called Grape Street) on the edge of Covent Garden in London. Meanwhile Charles’ brother Edward married Susan, the granddaughter of Alexander Gordon, another noted London distiller whose name might be familiar. At the Vine Street distillery, Tanqueray made London dry gin as well as the richer Old Tom and a special spiced gin called Malacca from the Straits of Malacca, a name synonymous with exotic spices.

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