PLANTINGA BESSEN JENEVER
This section contains some picture from Plantinga Friesch Rood Bessen Jenever (Plantinga Frisian Red Berry Gin). It is known for being particularly smooth, and is said to be the #2 Red Berry Gin in the Netherlands, after Coebergh. The older labels mention blackcurrants (Dutch "zwarte bessen"), elderberries (Dutch "vlierbessen") and raspberries (Dutch "frambozen"). The new label just mention blackcurrants. The picture on the front labels clearly displays redcurrants (Dutch "rode bessen"). Somewhere in the 1990s or 2000s the recipe changed to no longer include either raspberries or elderberries.
The signature on the labels is from Louwrens Baltus Plantinga, grandchild of Klaas Pieter Plantinga.
Old front label.
Scan by Peter Mulder.
A (quite rare?) 0,1 litre (100 cc) bottle from 1993 (or possibly older).
Old (to the left, possibly 1990's or before) and young (to the right, same as below) one litre bottles.
Old (to the left, possibly 1990's or before) and young (to the right, same as below) one litre bottles, back view.
Although you wouldn't know it from the way the old bottle looks when it is full, the glass is green as opposed to the transparent glass of the young one.
One litre bottle, 2012.
One litre bottle, 2012.
Front label detail from the above old bottle.
Back label detail from the above old bottle.
Neck label scan from a post-2004 bottle.
Scan made possible by the kind people of Boomsma.
Front label scan from a post-2004 bottle. Note the difference of typographic position of the two O's in "ROOD". Also, the gold-coloured embossing, particularly around the "Plantinga" logo, is less pronounced.
Scan made possible by the kind people of Boomsma.
Back abel scan from a post-2004 bottle. Note that it mentions having been made by Boomsma in Leeuwarden (since 2004), has an entirely different text than the old one, and another barcode.
Scan made possible by the kind people of Boomsma.