Gin is flavoured with juniper berries which contain several aromatic essential oils. The most abundant is alpha-pinene which is highly volatile and gives gin it’s characteristic pine-like taste. Too much alpha-pinene can be overpowering, particularly in a gin designed to be enjoyed neat like Slake’s Sussex Dry Gin. Slake uses a very modern distillation apparatus to carefully remove some of the alpha-pinene without compromising the spirit yield or losing the juniper character. To make a very smooth, balanced gin that show cases all the botanical ingredients used & also provide a by-product that we use to make cocktail bitters & supply to local food & drink producers.