It's nearly the time of year where we manage to consume even more cocktails than we usually would in a week and have the perfect excuse to do so, it's London Cocktail Week!
From 6th -12th October there'll be festivities across London celebrating the city's unrivalled cocktail culture. As ever, the hub of activity is around Seven Dials and on Wednesday 8th we'll be sharing our Monmouth Street shop with progressive distillers The Botanist in an event all about foraging for gin.
The Botanist are distillers like no other, producing a small-batch, artisanal gin from the Hebridean island of Islay. Having a core of the nine classic gin botanicals, The Botanist gin is then uniquely augmented by 22 hand-foraged island botanicals.
Describing their drink as 'a progressive exploration of the botanical heritage of our Isle' they'll be explaining about their passion of responsible foraging of local herbs and flowers, bringing a sense of the magnificent hills, shores and bogs of their Scottish islands to central London and delighting us with tastes of their explosive Hebridean flavours.
Tickets are free but limited and all attendees will receive two free exclusive The Botanist for Murdock London cocktails. The talk and tasting will start at 7pm and after at 8pm we'll be opening our doors to London Cocktail Week wristband wearers as we turn the store into The Botanist bar. And yes, that would be a free bar.
If you'd like to attend the Foraging for Gin talk then RSVP to themurdockman@murdocklondon.com. Places are very limited so book quickly!