When opening up a dictionary and searching for “Gin” you will find the following description: Gin is a distilled alcoholic beverage, which is made of grain or molasses. In a second production step, it is then re-distilled with juniper berries, from which gin derives its predominant flavour – the amount of juniper berries used during the distilling process, is subject to interpretation of the distiller.

Besides juniper, gin distillers usually add botanicals such as coriander, herbs, spices, angelica roots and seeds, licorice, orris roots, citrus peels (bitter orange, lemon, grapefruit), bitter almonds, nutmeg, cinnamon and anise, floral-flavours or often simply combine different ingredients with each other to create their signature flavoured spirit. Gin is meant to be mixed, most of the time with tonic water, however, many classic cocktails make use of gin as the botanicals perfectly come to life in cocktails and add complexity to the drink. Another way of enjoying gin is by adding fruits, flavourings and sugar – the result is a gin-based liqueur and in circle of experts this drink is called Sloe Gin.