The Tasting Room
The experiments that never make the shelf.
The six expressions are the finished work. This is the bench they came from: the one-off batches, the botanicals still being tested, the ideas that might be the best thing I have made or might get poured out.
Small, one-off releases. The list hears first, and they go fast.
What happens here
Every so often I take the still somewhere new. A native botanical I have never distilled, a maceration pushed too far, an idea I cannot let go. Some become the best gin I have made. A few I pour out. Most are made once, in runs of twenty or thirty bottles, and never repeated.
Twenty experiments in a row. Most made once.
What you get on the list
- First access to every experimental batch, before anyone else. Often the only access, because most are made once.
- The story behind each one: the botanical, the technique, and whether it worked.
- Tasting notes and serves straight from the bench.
- Founding members get first pour, ahead of the room.
For the curious
If you read the back of the bottle, and if “made once and never again” sounds like a reason to buy rather than a risk, this is your list. You will not hear from us often. When you do, something worth pouring is ready, and there is not much of it.
Notes from the bench.
Open the door
Be first in the room.
Hear the moment an experiment is ready. Tiny batches, one time only, offered to the list before anyone else.
Wildly refined.