{"id":13779,"date":"2020-10-27T17:24:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theginisin.com\/?post_type=tonicwater&p=13779"},"modified":"2020-10-27T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:24:05","slug":"east-imperial-yuzu-tonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/?p=13779","title":{"rendered":"East Imperial Yuzu Tonic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

East Imperial’s line of tonic waters hail from New Zealand. Their products though on the international market for some time<\/a>, have just started popping up stateside with regularity. With a wide range of flavored tonic waters<\/a> including their Yuzu Tonic featuring high quality ingredients, East Imperial is the latest to take aim at Fever Tree<\/a>‘s dominance of the ultra premium tonic water category.<\/p>\n

Yuzu is a citrus fruit of Eastern Asian origin. Popular in Japanese and Korean cuisines, the smallish fruit is prized for its aromatic rind. It’s flavor is said to resemble something between a grapefruit and a mandarin. Yuzu has also been incredibly popular in the gin world from about 2017 on<\/a>. It’s been a featured botanical in several Japanese gins including Roku Gin<\/a>, Nikka Coffey Gin<\/a> and Ki No Bi Gin<\/a>. That Boutique-y Gin Company even gave it the signature botanical treatment in their 2018 Yuzu Gin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

East Imperial Yuzu Tonic is sweetened with cane sugar and uses Java Cinchona Bark for quinine.<\/p>\n

Tasting Notes<\/h2>\n

The nose is quite true to the fruit. For those who haven’t had the pleasure of nosing pure yuzu before, East Imperial Yuzu Tonic has a nose that is a combination of white grapefruit flesh, Seville orange rind with a slight dash of lemon oil for brightness.<\/p>\n

On it’s own,\u00a0East Imperial Yuzu Tonic is quite a delicious soda. Generous citrus notes early, brightened by a tight, but soft effervescence, it slowly segues into the bitterness on the back. It’s a clean and understated bitterness. The finish is long with the subtle quinine note hanging around long after the first sip.<\/p>\n

Further, I enjoy the balanced and muted sweetness.\u00a0East Imperial Yuzu Tonic is a mere 48 calories per 150 mL\/5 oz. bottle. That sweetness comes on gently at the back half, bridging the moment where the citrus begins to diminish and the bitterness comes on.<\/p>\n

East Imperial Yuzu Tonic and Gunpowder Gin<\/a><\/h2>\n

East Imperial’s marketing materials suggesting pairing with classic style or citrus-forward gins. But I really love this pairing of Drumshanbo Gunpowder Gin<\/a> and Yuzu Tonic. The tea and yuzu marry together beautifully. The yuzu doesn’t overpower the gin, nor does the tea dominate. It reminds me of a slightly sweetened peach white tea, iced on a summer<\/p>\n

Overall, East Imperial Yuzu Tonic<\/h2>\n

One of the best, most balanced flavored tonic waters out there. Those looking for a more subtle alternative to some of the bitter lemons<\/a> on the market\u2014 or those just looking for a citrus-forward tonic water, will not be disappointed.<\/p>\n

Highly Recommended.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

East Imperial’s line of tonic waters hail from New Zealand. Their products though on the international market for some time, have just started popping up stateside with regularity. With a wide range of flavored tonic waters including their Yuzu Tonic featuring high quality ingredients, East Imperial is the latest to take aim at Fever Tree‘s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}