![]() Hendrick’s Cabinet of Curiosities began in 2019, enticing fans with a new limited-edition secret blend released each year. Or, try it in a Flora Garden Cup, a medley of cooling cucumber and bright citrus, lengthened with a refreshing raspberry soda.” The latter cocktail recipe is a youthful twist on a classic-perfect for a garden party, just like the spirit itself. ![]() She says: “I find Flora Adora sublime simply with tonic and a slice of cucumber. Flora Adora from Hendrick’s Gin is a collector’s item that is perfect for giving and receiving.Īs for how to best enjoy this new unique expression, Charmaine Thio, Brand Ambassador for Hendrick’s Gin Southeast Asia, has some advice. If your host is already a fan of Hendrick’s Gin, this is a thoughtful gift to add to their collection-and a prized centrepiece for the table at weekend brunches. With Flora Adora’s carnation pink label and eye-catching butterfly motif, the bottle itself is a collector’s item perfect for giving and receiving. It is fresh and uplifting when sipped neat, but the balanced profile behind Flora Adora is best captured when poured into a glass over plenty of ice, with a splash of tonic. On the palate, these wondrous scents blend harmoniously with the smooth, delicate flavour of the Hendrick’s Gin base-bringing out its smooth juniper and green herbal character. The spirit fills your senses with notes of rose, jasmine and lavender. An exploration of these plants in her laboratory has led to the brand’s latest release-a botanical-packed, limited-edition gin, suitably named Flora Adora. That’s what Lesley Gracie, master distiller at Hendrick’s Gin Palace, noticed in her garden last summer. Thanks to Bob Bowen for the information, photographs, and a copy of the supplement to the 1979 Dealer’s Color and Upholstery Book explaining about the additional Collector’s Edition Mark Vs.Some flowers, radiant with nectar and colour, are more irresistible to bees and butterflies. If any of our members know of any other Diamond Jubilee blue or silver 1979 Collector’s Series Mark Vs out there, please write and let us know about them. In a letter dated Augto a collector in Colorado, Lincoln-Mercury gave the following production figures for the 1979 Collector’s Series Mark Vs. To date, Bob has located only one 1979 Diamond Jubilee blue Collector’s series Mark V, and it has been wrecked. Grant and Joan Milne, Lucerne, Colorado own a silver Collector’s Series Mark V. Maries, Idaho, has ‘79 Collector’s Edition MarkVs in blue, silver and white. The only place we know of that you can find any reference to the silver and the Diamond Jubilee blue Collector’s Series Mark V is in the 1979 Dealer’s Color and Upholstery Book as a March, 1979 “glue in” supplement. Diamond Jubilee blue is the same Diamond Jubilee blue that was used on the 1978 Mark V Diamond Jubilee model. It will come as a surprise to most of us, that in March, 1979 two additional limited edition Collector’s Series Mark Vs were offered, one in silver and the other in Diamond Jubilee blue (light blue). Pictures and descriptions of them are included in the factory brochures. The midnight blue and white Collector’s Series Mark V’s were introduced at the start of the 1979 model year. The ‘79 Collector Series Mark Vs were dressed much like the previous year’s Diamond Jubilee models, except that the Collector’s Series Mark Vs, “Collector’s Series” insignia replaced the opera windows. Oben, during the 1979 model year, collectors were buying every new Mark V the factory could produce.Ĭontemporary factory literature and brochures identify two 1979 Collector Series Mark Vs-one in white, the other in midnight blue. It does seem like an unusual marketing tactic, but even when the ‘79 Lincolns were new, the buying public was reminded not only of their high resale value, but also of the collectability of the soon to be discontinued models.Īccording to then Ford Motor Company Vice President and Lincoln General Manager, Walter J. The top of the line Collector’s Series Mark Vs, Town Cars, and Town Coupes were referred to in Lincoln-Mercury Division news releases as “special limited production models being built to mark the final year of these traditional full-sized luxury cars”. During the 1979 model year, Lincoln-Mercury Division heavily advertised the fact that the Town Car/Town Coupe and the Mark series body styles were going to be different next year.
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