Gin & Jenever

An interesting gin from the Lake District, using water from Skiddaw and local botanicals, including 'seasoned bark', to create a tasty gin that's equally at home in cocktails as in a glass with a block of ice.

A handcrafted gin distilled under vacuum in London and flavoured with 12 botanicals including cardamom, fresh cut orange, lime and lemon and distilled frankincense (Boswellia Sacra) which gives this remarkable gin its name.

A London dry style gin distilled at the Hernö Brenneri on the east coast of Sweden. They use a homemade wheat spirit as the base and steep their 8 botanicals for 18 hours before distilling in a 250 litre copper still (called Kierstin), hand labelling and bottling at 40.5% abv.

An old style 'Oude' genever from Van Wees in Holland.

A classic London Dry gin put together by the founders of the Bristol Bar in Madrid, the bar with the biggest range of juniper spirits in the gin loving city. It proved a big hit in Spain and has since made its way back to native shores.

Edinburgh Gin is produced by the Spencerfield Spirits Co., who have created a modern Scottish gin in the time-honoured fashion, including unusual botanicals such as heather and milk thistle. A very easy-drinking gin, this could be a winner.

Exceptionally pink high-strength gin made in London. Edgerton is made with 14 botanicals and the colour, in case you're worried, is from pomegranate added separately from the other ingredients.

One of a new wave of premium gins seeking to get away from the traditional London Dry style. G'Vine is made with grape spirit instead of normal grain spirit and includes the green grape flower in its botanicals. A deliciously fresh gin.

A gin from Southwold brewers Adnams, bottled at a chunky 48%. It's a traditional juniper-led gin with a nice heavy palate and a great kick.
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City of London Gin is produced at the small City of London distillery which opened in November 2012. The distillery is based just off Fleet Street and is the first to open in the City of London in over 200 years. The distillery houses two copper stills which they use for producing their Gin and Vodka, and opens as a bar in the evenings. A modern London Dry style gin with big grapefruity citrus notes.

Familiar all over Europe, but little-seen here in the UK, this is a litre bottle of the higher-strength Gordon's Yellow Label, made to Alexander Gordon's original recipe - and hence the original gin for classics such as the Vesper.

A higher-strength limited edition variant from G'Vine, whose standard bottling is also extremly classy gin. Nouaison is batch-distilled in a copper potstill and flavoured with fresh botaniocals including the grape flower.

A superpremium smallbatch Tanqueray named after the number of the No. 10 still in which it is made. A superb controlled explosion of botanical flavours.

A deluxe high-strength gin, awarded 97 points and the title 'Spirit of the Year 2003' by the Chicago Beverage Tasting Institute (BTI), the world’s largest and most powerful drinks testing organisation.

A classic London Gin style with distinctive citrus notes, obtained from macerating and re-distilling neutral spirit with only six specially chosen botanicals in a patent Stupfler pot still.

A new gin based on the fuller-bodied Dutch style with rye neutral grain spirit and a ‘botanical democracy’ of Juniper, Cardamom, Coriander, Lavender, Anise, Sarsaparilla and Orange Peel.

A rather unique gin from FEW, using their own tangy grain spirit as a base, before redistilling with a botanical mix including vanilla and hops picked from master distiller Paul Hletko's garden.

An impressive-looking premium gin from famous wine & spirits merchants Berry Bros & Rudd, No. 3 London Dry is distilled in copper potstills in Holland, counts cardamom seeds and grapefruit peel among its botanicals, and has been bottled at an invigorating 46%.

A quality new potstill American gin made in very small batches and distilled five times for extra purity, using natural botanicals that are macerated overnight in the still. "...I rarely drink hard liquor, but I must say this was the smoothest gin I have ever had." - Robert Parker

From Dutch masters Bols comes this excellent cask-aged Jenever. The style, 'corenwyn' translates as 'corn wine' referring to the high proportion of malt wine - at least 51% - used in the blend.