Son of an 1840’s Oregon pioneer and first generation Oregonian Robert Imbrie had 12 children and a mother to think about. After establishing a necessary granary and farm to finance his extensive line of kinfolk, he took three years to build an elaborate, three-story Italian villa style farmhouse in Hillsboro to house his baker’s dozen. Christening the modern architecture marvel as “The Gables,” the Imbrie farmhouse still stands and is in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It is also the next door neighbor to a McMenamins’ brewpub, the Cornelius Pass Roadhouse, and the story behind naming their gin for the house itself. The CPR Distillery Gables Gin is built on a based of organic wheat alcohol, distilled once through a century-old alembic still, then blended with eight crucial botanicals: juniper, coriander, orris root, Oregon grape root, sage, chocolate mint, rose and yarrow. Culminating the powers that be, the gin is aromatically robust with floral and herbaceous tones, with a touch of citrus both on the nose and palate, finishing full and clean.
