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�e range of botanicals used alongside

juniper can differ wildly, with Emma

Stokes, founder of World Gin Day and

author of �e Periodic Table of Cocktails,

noting: "You find gins at opposite ends of

the flavour spectrum, from those flavoured

with flowers to others flavoured with

savoury botanicals such as seaweed."

�e botanicals in newer gins frequently

draw on a sense of place. For example, Gin

Mare, hailing from outside Barcelona, is

flavoured with green olives, rosemary and

thyme, while Conker Spirit Dorset Dry

Gin is made with local spring water from

the New Forest, and infused with gorse

flowers, samphire and elderberries.

�e numbers are also important here,

and �e Travelling Gin Co's Ed Godden

says a lot of his customers show interest

in Monkey 47, a gin that hails from the

Black Forest and employs no fewer than

(you guessed it) 47 botanicals, whereas

Copperhead Gin from Belgium uses only

five classics: juniper, angelica, cardamom,

coriander seed and orange peel.