| Rating | 92 |
| Style | Gin |
| Produced In | Philippines |
| ABV | 45% |
| Availability | Year Round |
| Price | $48.00 |
| Reviewed By | |
| Reviewed | 2025-04-16 |
Archipelago Botanical Gin Review
Home to Ginebra San Miguel, the world’s best-selling gin brand, the Philippines boasts some serious gin credentials. From the decidedly smaller brand, Full Circle Craft Distillers, Archipelago Botanical is a welcome and worthy addition to that heritage, first arriving on the U.S. market in 2023. Produced from a base of winter wheat, and with 28 botanicals (almost 80 percent of which are sourced from the Philippines), this a tropical, fruity, and floral gin, with a solid juniper backbone. Highballs, shaken cocktails, dare we say it even Martinis? This gin can do it all.
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