

The neutral spirit for the gin is made from basmati rice and the botanicals are distilled in groups. Tamras uses 16 botanicals among them, juniper berries from Macedonia, coriander seeds from Morocco (with a different flavour profile as compared to Indian coriander), black and green cardamom, lemon verbena (“more ‘herbaceous than lemony,” says Bhagat) sweet lime, grapefruit, Cubeb pepper from Indonesia, lotus flower and seeds, and fennel. Our test was: can it hold its own in a martini? Can it hold its own as a gin and tonic?” “Both of us had our own ideas of what the gin should be like. “We were always on the search for the perfect martini or Negroni,” says Bachooali. The name is a nod to both the lotus flower and copper (in Sanskrit), and Adventurist Spirits, their company, is inspired by both fictional as well as epicurean adventures.

Three years down the line, after several visits to distilleries abroad and researching recipes, Bhagat and Bachooali will launch Tamras in the third week of December, in Goa, where it is distilled. So I said okay, but let’s first educate ourselves about gin.” “He had come up with 100 business ideas, but there was something about this one. Let’s make a great gin.” Bhagat, who had introduced Bachooali to gin while they were dating, was surprised. Bachooali, who had imbibed “two martinis in quick succession” and was testily waiting for the English summer to live up to its promise, looked at his spouse and said, “Let’s do it. The bartender was curious about why India didn’t make any gin of its own. On a damp, drizzly August evening in London, in 2018, Devika Bhagat and Khalil Bachooali were confined to a pub, desultorily sampling gin cocktails proffered by a chatty bartender. Khalil Bachooali and Devika Bhagat of Adventurist Spirits, which is launching Tamras gin in Goa in the third week of December.
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