The Gin

Xoriguer is the Gin.

The most  subtle alliance between the products of the earth and the fire.

Patience and Experience, Nobility and Elegance: here there are the secrets of the alchemy of the Gin

 

Menorca belonged to the British crown during almost the whole century eighteen.

Thousands of English soldiers garnished the island and they were clients of the taverns, where they didn't find the liquor then in fashion in their homeland: the Gin.

Soon some artisansfrom Mahón found the solution to the problem: to bring bay of juniper and to manufacture Gin in the island starting from the alcohol characteristic of the Mediterranean.

This way, the Gin was acclimatized with success in Menorca, consolidating as popular drink.

Already entered the XX century, of the purest family roots and artisans a mark arose: Xoriguer, that began to bottle and to market with rigor a product that until then moved in a little more than local environment.

The port of Maó

D. Miguel Pons Justo family, founder of Xoriguer.

 

Miquel Pons Justo, so long tradition artisan's heir, chose the name and the image of the old mill of wind of the family like emblem of a product that step opened up in the market for its quality and attractiveness packs.

Gin Xoriguer is still always today the same one. It is the result of the distillation, in the old copper stills, of alcohol of high quality together with bay of select juniper, coming from the mountains of the lands mediterranean neighbors, and other aromatic plants. These last ones constitute the zealously kept secret of their original bouquet.

Completed the distillation, the Gin is stored in big oak casks, to proceed next to its packed.