There are easier ways to make gin, of course.... we just couldn't bring ourselves to!
Here’s why we use fresh, foraged, and seasonal botanicals in ours.
1. Because it tastes better (obviously)
We’re two flavour-obsessed former chefs. We were never going to do this any other way!
You don’t need a background in cooking to know that fresh ingredients win.
Fresh herbs, fresh citrus peel, fresh flowers - they’re brighter, more expressive, and a lot more alive than their dried counterparts.
Dried botanicals have their place. But if you want a gin that actually tastes like something real, something you can recognise and enjoy, fresh ingredients do the heavy lifting.
It’s the difference between something that tastes fine… and something you keep going back to.
2. Because we’re surrounded by it!
The distillery sits in Falmouth, on the Cornish coast, and it would be almost strange not to use what’s around us.
There’s an abundance of flavour here if you pay attention.
The fresh rock samphire in our Falmouth Dry grows all along the coastline.
The gorse flowers that give Kissing Gate its soft, coconut-like lift? They’re everywhere in spring.
Woods, hedgerows, coast paths - it’s all right on our doorstep.
You start to notice things. You start to taste things. And before long, it feels very natural to ask, “what would this be like in a glass?”
3. Because it keeps things interesting (for us and for you)
Working with fresh botanicals means nothing ever feels static.
Ingredients change with the seasons. Some are fleeting. Some behave differently batch to batch. You have to pay attention. You have to adapt.
That’s the fun of it.
It keeps us curious, and it keeps the drinks you’re pouring feeling a bit more considered. A bit more connected to a time and a place, rather than something designed to taste identical forever.
4. Because it reflects how we think about drinks
We care about flavour, yes. But also about the experience of it.
How it smells when you pour it. How it changes over ice. How it works in a long drink at the start of the evening. How we're all drinking less, but better. So why not make it the best we possibly can?
Fresh botanicals bring a kind of clarity and lift that’s hard to fake. They make drinks feel lighter, brighter, and easier to come back to.
And that’s really the point.
Something you actually want another glass of.
If you’ve ever had one of our gins and thought, “this tastes a bit different,” this is probably why!
Peruse our botanical-filled best-sellers here
