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    WHERE CAN YOU TASTE?

    Aug 20, 2021 5 minutes
    BY EMMA STOKES

    Of all of the senses that humans possess, I would argue that taste and smell make the strongest associations to a place or to a time. A whiff of wild garlic and I’m instantly back to exploring the woodlands as a kid with my brother, imperial leather soap reminds me of my grandparents’ house, and basil takes me back to my Mum’s discovery in the late 90s of a wondrous new jar that you simply added to pasta to create a tasty meal: pesto.

    These kinds of associations trickled into my earlier gin tastings. What I now know as “heavy with coriander seed” reminded me of a wet dog, specifically one that had just been shampooed! Once, when tasting an in-development gin, Mum’s pasta discovery wouldn’t remove itself from

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