We use the traditional one shot distillation method which involves a mix of juniper and other botanicals steeped in high quality English grain spirit which has been reduced in strength with Cornish spring water.
Virginia & Margaret
We then warm our 150 and 200 litre copper pot stills ‘Virginia’ and ‘Margaret’ and leave the base botanicals to steep overnight releasing the flavours. Next morning we add the delicate locally foraged floral botanicals and slowly heat the stills - their fragile components create a challenge to distill which requires meticulous attention and technique.
Foraged Botanicals
We then warm our copper pot stills and leave the base botanicals to steep overnight to help extract the oils which create the unique flavours of Lantic Gin. Next morning we add the delicate locally foraged floral botanicals and slowly heat Virginia - their fragile components create a challenge to distill which requires meticulous attention and technique.
Cornish Dry Gin
We then collect the ‘hearts’ which makes up the majority of the gin distillate and rejected a significant amount of ‘tails’ which contain unwanted oils and heavier substances to keep more of the precious gin in the hearts. This produces a gin distillate full of flavours and aromas before which we reduce the distillate to our bottling strength by adding additional Cornish spring water from a near by farm. No additions are added after this stage, thus earning the designation of ‘Cornish Dry Gin’.