The Missouri Botanical Garden and local craft distillery 1220 Spirits have joined together to create a New World Gin collaboration, showcasing flavors of locally grown botanicals merged with classic juniper and coriander.
The new Missouri Botanical Garden Gin opens with bright citrus and bergamot notes that give way to elderflower and rose hips, and finish with subtle essences of calamus and echinacea.
Toky, the design firm behind 1220 Spirits’ distinct branding, created a label symbolic of the windows of the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Linnean House, the oldest continuously operated public greenhouse west of the Mississippi River and a source of inspiration for the botanicals used in the gin. The back label, which is visible through the bottle, showcases both the garden and the botanical elements.
Opportunities to try the collaborative gin and purchase bottles will come during Spirits at the Garden, a series of Sunday afternoon events hosted by the garden. Bottles are also available in the 4 Hands Brewing Company tasting room (1220 S. 8th St.) downtown, and in stores throughout the area soon.
