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Launched in 1987 Bombay Sapphire is credited with kickstarting gin’s fashionability and has become a truly iconic brand, with its distinctive blue bottle recognisable in bars the world over. The basis for the its recipe is it’s predecessor the Bombay Original but with a few more ingredients totalling 10 different botanicals: almond, lemon peel, licorice, juniper, orris root, angelica root, coriander, cassia cinnamon, cubeb pepper and paradise seeds. Bombay Sapphire Gin is distilled 3 times in a “carterhead” style, where the alcohol vapors pass through a mask / basket containing the 10 ingredients, to get its distinct taste and aroma. This gives a lighter and more ‘floral’ gin than the gins distilled using the more common copper still. Finally, water is added from Lake Vyrnwy, bringing the alcoholic strength of the Bombay Sapphire Gin to 40%.