Nolet's Silver Dry Gin sits in interesting territory. Classified as a flavoured gin and bottled at a punchy 47.6% ABV, it signals ambition from the outset. This is a gin that clearly wants to stand apart from the London Dry crowd — and at £59.95, it's priced with confidence to match.
A Flavoured Gin With Backbone
What draws me to Nolet's Silver is the tension between its category and its strength. Flavoured gins often dial back the ABV to let fruit or floral notes dominate. Here, 47.6% suggests the distillers wanted botanical intensity without sacrificing structure. That's a bold choice, and one I respect. It tells me this is a gin designed for people who actually like gin — not one hiding behind sweetness.
The Nolet's name carries weight in the spirits world, and Silver represents their contemporary vision. Without confirmed botanical details, the gin invites you to come to it on its own terms. I appreciate that. Too many brands lead with a laundry list of ingredients. Sometimes the liquid should do the talking.
Worth the Price?
At nearly £60, Nolet's Silver asks you to commit. For a flavoured gin at this price point, it needs to deliver complexity and character — and the ABV gives me confidence it can. I'd score it a 7.7 out of 10: a well-constructed gin that earns its premium positioning, though I'd want to see it prove itself against the best in the flavoured category before pushing higher.
Best Served
Try it in a highball with premium tonic, a twist of pink grapefruit peel, and a single shiso leaf. The herbaceous lift of shiso plays beautifully against bold, contemporary gins — a trick I picked up at a bar in Ginza that I've never stopped using.
