Genevieve Genever-Style Gin
Anchor Distilling Company · Anchor Distillery (Hotaling & Co.)
A cerebral, textural gin that whispers where others shout. Genevieve rewards patient sippers and reshapes classic cocktails with malty gravity.
Nose
Warm malted grain leads—doughy wheat, cracked barley, a whisper of rye spice—laced with lifted juniper, coriander seed, and a soft citrus oil note that hovers rather than announces.
Palate
Full and silken, closer to unaged whiskey than gin: bread crust, barley sugar, oily juniper resin, cardamom, dried angelica root, and a subtle peppery lift. Weight without weightiness, complexity without clamor.
Finish
Long, cereal-driven, and quietly herbaceous—juniper pine and licorice root fade into a warm grainy hush.
- Style
- American Genever-Style / Malt Wine Gin
- Botanicals
- Juniper berries, coriander, angelica root, orris root, cardamom, lemon peel, cassia, and additional proprietary botanicals matching the Junípero recipe
- Base Spirit
- Malted wheat, barley, and rye pot-distilled spirit
Cocktail Suggestion
The Quiet Holland — 2 oz Genevieve, 0.75 oz Cocchi Vermouth di Torino, 1 barspoon Bénédictine, 2 dashes orange bitters. Stir over ice for 30 seconds, strain into a chilled coupe, express a lemon peel and discard.
Food Pairing
Roasted quail with juniper jus and celery root purée, or aged Comté with dark rye and honeycomb.
Created by Anchor's late master distiller Bruce Joseph as a nod to the malt-wine genevers that predated London Dry, Genevieve is distilled from a mash of wheat, barley, and rye and redistilled with the same botanicals as Junípero—a quiet historical bridge in a bottle.
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