Product Description
THE BARTENDER’S BOOK
Gordon’s Sicilian Lemon Distilled Gin is a Mediterranean-inspired flavored gin that brightens the classic London dry profile with vibrant Sicilian lemons. Crafted using Alexander Gordon’s original recipe, it balances juniper’s peppery warmth with natural lemon zest, hints of thyme, coriander, and angelica, and finishes with a crisp citrus character. The result is a light yellow gin bursting with fresh lemon aroma, gently sweet on the palate, and ideal for creating summery cocktails like gin and tonics, lemon spritzers, or even a lemon meringue martini .
TASTING NOTES
Taste is more than flavor. It is the full conversation between glass, nose, mouth, and memory. Here, we break each spirit into four parts:
AROMA
Sicilian lemon peel, lemon oil, juniper, light florals, lemongrass, lemon verbena, and a faint minty edge.
PALATE
Bright lemon, citrus zest, piney juniper, coriander, lemongrass, bergamot, mild sweetness, and dry gin spice.
FINISH
Medium, citrus-led, lightly bitter, and dry, with lingering lemon peel, juniper, lemongrass, and herbal snap.
TEXTURE
Light, crisp, and polished, with citrus oil giving it more roundness than standard Gordon’s.
Gordon’s Sicilian Lemon delivers a citrus-forward gin profile built around lemon peel, lemon oil, lemongrass, lemon verbena, bergamot, juniper, coriander, and dry herbs. It is brighter and fruitier than classic Gordon’s, but still gin-shaped enough to avoid turning completely into lemon cordial.
STRAIGHT TALK
Gordon’s Sicilian Lemon is not trying to be a serious botanical study. It is a flavored gin with a clear job: lemon first, Gordon’s underneath. The good news is that the lemon reads more like peel, zest, and oil than cheap candy. The caution is sweetness and subtlety. It is brighter and friendlier than the standard London Dry, but less disciplined.
This is Gordon’s in summer clothes, not Gordon’s in a Savile Row suit.
THE MIX
Lemon G&T direction:
Classic tonic, plenty of citrus lift, and the gin’s lemon-oil side kept crisp.
Citrus Collins direction:
Lemon, fizz, restrained sweetness, and Gordon’s juniper holding the frame.
Sicilian Spritz direction:
Bitter citrus, bubbles, lemon peel, and a dry herbal edge.
Martini-adjacent direction:
Dry vermouth, lemon oil, and a very cold build, though the lemon flavor makes it softer and less severe than a classic Martini.
Culinary cocktail angle:
Think lemon peel, grapefruit, basil, mint, rosemary, thyme, cucumber, black pepper, bergamot, and salty seafood flavors.
A DISTILLER’S TALE
Gordon’s was created by Alexander Gordon in London in 1769 and became one of the defining names in London Dry gin. The classic Gordon’s recipe is built around juniper and a tight botanical frame, with coriander, angelica, licorice, orris, orange peel, and lemon peel commonly associated with the house profile.
Sicilian Lemon belongs to Gordon’s modern flavored-gin line. It launched in 2020, following the commercial success of Gordon’s Pink Gin, and was positioned as a zesty lemon variation on the original Gordon’s recipe.
MY TAKE
Gordon’s Sicilian Lemon is bright, useful, and more coherent than many flavored gins. Lemon peel, lemon oil, juniper, lemongrass, coriander, and bergamot give it a clean citrus map. It is not as serious as export-strength Gordon’s, and the lemon does most of the talking, but the bottle has energy. This is a sunny, practical flavored gin with enough dry gin backbone to keep its shoes on.
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