Barrel-Aged Dry Gin
Seventeen Botanicals, Two Years in Rye Barrels
Samuel Maverick Barrel-Aged Dry Gin begins as a seventeen-botanical dry gin, then spends two years in Maverick rye barrels inside the Lockwood bank vault beneath the distillery.
Time in oak turns a bright, juniper-forward gin into something closer to a whiskey drinker’s gin — the botanicals still there, but wrapped in barrel spice and colour.
A gin for people who drink whiskey
Two years in rye barrels puts this somewhere between the two categories. It works in a Martinez or an Old Fashioned build, and rewards being tried neat alongside the unaged Texas Dry Gin to hear what the wood changed.
Colour, nose, palate and finish for this expression have not been supplied yet. Once Maverick provides them they will sit here in the same four-row format used on the in-distribution pages.
Aged Beneath the Bank
The barrels for this gin rest in the Lockwood National Bank vault beneath 115 Broadway — the same underground space that holds the Private Reserve bourbon. Below street level the temperature swings less than it does upstairs, so ageing runs slower and steadier.
Two years is a long time for a barrel-aged gin. The result keeps the seventeen botanicals recognisable while giving them a structure closer to a young whiskey than to a London Dry.