Considered to be the world’s most expensive gin, with a price tag of £2000, and the world’s first gin to be distilled solely from Japanese botanicals, Watenshi Gin has attracted an elite crowd of the enthusiasts as its sole customers since its introduction. The gin has been credited with the title of ‘One of the World’s Best Gins’ by many spirit critics over time!
Watenshi Gin is a unique spirit from the house of the UK-based Cambridge Distillery which has produced some of the best award-winning gins in the global spirit market to date. The gin is produced with the distillery’s extremely innovative method of capturing evaporated gin from the distillation process of its acclaimed and awarded Japanese Gin. To create a bottle of Watenshi Gin, Cambridge Distillery has to collect the evaporated gin from around 50 distillations of its popular Japanese Gin. A single distillation of Japanese Gin produces a mere 15 ml of Watenshi Gin, making Watenshi Gin an extremely unique gin offering in the market.
Japanese Gin is distilled from all-Japanese botanicals, which include juniper, shiso leaf, sesame seeds, cucumber, sansho and yuzu. Each of these botanicals are distilled individually in a vacuum and then blended together to produce the purest, most-authentic and an incomparable flavour profile. The evaporating 1% gin from each distillation of this spirit is collected and processed to make Watenshi gin drop by drop.
Creating Watenshi Gin is an extremely time-consuming task. This makes the distillery release only 36 bottles of the gin every year, making sure not more than 6 bottles are distributed in the same country. A very few bottles are released to selected retailers while the distillery puts only one bottle for sale on its website occasionally.
The gin offers notes of sweet citrus, spice and bitter juniper and a long complex finish. It is bottled at 45% ABV, and is highly sought after by the more-affluent enthusiasts of the world. Damn! This makes me want to be rich.
