Vikre Distillery of Duluth has gotten big kudos from Wine Enthusiast magazine.In the magazine's Top 100 Spirits of 2015 list, it ranks Vikre's Boreal Juniper Gin as among the country's top gins.

Boreal Juniper Gin is distilled at Vikre. Wyatt Buckner / Duluth Media Group "A year before I moved to Duluth, I emailed (then-Mayor) Don (Ness) and said, 'I'm interested in starting a craft ...

Most people assume that gin will always taste like a Christmas tree—thanks to juniper berries—but these bottles from American distillers challenge that.

“Kind of like gin has to be infused with juniper berries, aquavit has to be infused with caraway or dill or both,” she said. Vikre’s is infused with caraway, which she says gives it a rye ...

Gin tastes like juniper, and all juniper is the same, right? Not so much. For nearly all of the spirit's history, a single species has been relied upon: the aptly named common juniper. David T ...

You get juniper more in the aftertaste, which lingers for a while — the sweet and bitter tongue-coating viscosity of one too many gin and tonics. Take coffee, add gin, subtract fun.

I know that Starbucks’s new juniper latte is supposed to be a holiday drink, conjuring up images of snow-dusted boughs and the crisp, herbal scent of pine. But you know what juniper is really ...