“We had to set it apart from London gin we can’t compete with all the English gins so we had to create a different product that also promotes the Algarve and its own products. “The gin trend isn’t a global thing, but it has become huge in some countries including Portugal, so producing a gin was inevitable,” explains Eduardo, a food engineer who also teaches at the Hospitality School in Portimão. Still in its early days as a gin-maker, the distillery can produce 30,000 litres, a figure that can increase depending on market demands.

(the only botanical not from Portugal), liquorice, angelica and coriander seed. London dry in style, it is triple distilled in copper steam boilers, with nine different dehydrated botanicals added to the spirit: juniper, tangerine, orange, lemon, almond, black pepper It’s in a distillery between Lagoa and Silves that Luís Sequeira produces this citrusy gin, first launched in late 2014. It was when he joined forces with local producer Luís Sequeira, the man behind the Talurdinha aguardente firewaters and liqueurs in the village that has been distilling as far back as 1747, that the Algarve’s first and only gin was born. Presented in a distinctive orange bottle bearing the words ‘Premium Citrus Reticulata Gin’, Tangerine Gin is the result of two years of development, the brainchild of Portimão native Eduardo Peixinho Reis. Today, there are a number of gins produced here in Portugal, but only one of them is made right here in the Algarve with products that best represent the region: Tangerine Gin. But “the perfect serve” is more than a fleeting trend and Portuguese businesses have taken notice.

In the last couple of years, gin bars have been popping up across the country, with an increasing number of gin experts serving carefully prepared concoctions in balloon glasses to various generations of Portuguese and international drinkers alike. There is no drink quite as fashionable as gin right now.Ī Dutch invention that’s quintessentially English at heart, the spirit once associated to middle-aged, middle-class drinkers in the form of the classic gin & tonic has exploded to become Portugal’s drink du jour. Introducing the only gin made in the Algarve, by Algarveans

Tangerine gin