Queen Elizabeth’s Buckingham Palace Gin sold out in 8 hours – but will Meghan Markle be sent a bottle for her birthday in August?
Queen Elizabeth has launched her own royal gin label, aptly named Buckingham Palace Gin, to help raise money to conserve her extensive art collection, known to be the largest private collection in the world.
According to Buckingham Palace Shop’s Instagram last week, the queen’s newly launched gin carries plenty of citrus and herbal notes, as it is made from 12 botanicals, such as lemon verbena, hawthorne berries and mulberry leaves, hand picked from the gardens of Buckingham Palace.
And it’s already proved a hit – priced at £40.00 (US$51), the product sold out within eight hours of going on sale online earlier this week.
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The Instagram account recommends that the best way to enjoy a “perfect summer thirst quencher” is to pour a measure of the gin into an ice-filled short tumbler before topping it up with tonic and garnishing with a slice of lemon.
The royal gin comes in an elegant turquoise bottle featuring a coronet and adorned with a floral design. The back of the bottle features a sketch of Buckingham Palace and it comes with a gold-coloured stopper.
It is widely known that Queen Elizabeth’s favourite tipple is gin with Dubonnet, so it is not all that surprising that she is now making her own gin – and she is not the first senior royal to dabble in gin production. Her son Prince Charles produces organic gin at his Highgrove estate and the queen’s Scottish retreat Balmoral distils single malt whisky.
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The queen will serve Buckingham Palace Gin at all royal functions once the coronavirus pandemic subsides.
All profits from sales of the gin will go to the Royal Collection Trust, the charity that conserves the royal art collection; the gin can be bought via the charity’s website.
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Booze fit for a queen? Long a favourite of the British royal family, the new official Buckingham Palace Gin, priced at US$51, promises to provide the ‘perfect summer thirst-quencher’ – but what does it actually taste like?