Juniper Berries 100g

These dried juniper berries are one of the Essential ingredients in Gin production. Said to have many other health benefits in cooking they can be used for many other dishes as well. These dried berries have been low temperature dried so they retain more of the flavour and aroma. If you want to really understand gin, it’s important to get to know juniper. We would compare it to understanding the influence of casks for whisky fans, grapes for winos or dilution of ice for bartenders. Juniper is such an important aspect of gin that quite literally, it is not only the primary botanical used in gin but by law, it needs to be the predominant flavour in anything seeking to be classified as gin. The aroma and taste of juniper is – or at least should be – the signature note in any gin, both on the nose and on the palate. Even the name Gin itself is derived from either the French genièvre or the Dutch jenever, which both mean juniper.