Fourteen botanicals distilled across three copper-pot runs and re-blended at 88 proof. Hand-foraged sea salt from the Cape Mendell flats finishes the spirit with a low minerality you can taste at every sip — a rare quality in gin, a defining one in this gin.
Three sequential copper-pot runs — heads, hearts, tails — at 84°C, hand-cut by the distiller. Two-week rest at proof before bottling. Charcoal-filtered water from the cape's underground spring is the only addition to bring the spirit to 44% ABV.
Opens with bright citrus and Macedonian juniper. Mid-palate gives way to long mineral salinity from the Cape Mendell salt — distinct from a finishing-salt rim, integrated all the way through the spirit. Finishes dry, peppery, and very slightly resinous from angelica root.
Distilled in early March 2026 — the salt was harvested late October '25 from the south flat after a week of clean offshore wind. Batch yielded 480 bottles, ran two days behind schedule because of an unexpected nor'easter that delayed the spring water draw. The fourteenth batch we've made with this exact botanical ratio.
Forward, defining, but never piney.
Sicilian-led, bright, lift on the front.
The whole-spirit minerality. Distinctive.
Pink peppercorn, finishing only.
Bone dry. No sugar in the cut.
The cocktail we serve to every visitor. The salt content makes vermouth optional — the spirit holds the whole drink. Stir, don't shake. Lemon, never olive.
For the long version with twelve more recipes, see the cocktails reference.