Etsu Gin is one of the first Japanese gins and contains a wide range of Asian and Japanese botanicals like Japanese pepper and Japanese tea leaves. It is a very floral gin with Yuzu citrus influences distilled on Hokkaido island and bottled at 43% ABV. The name refers to the Japanese term for joy and fun.

The main botanicals – green bitter orange peel, yuzu, coriander, licorice and angelica root – macerate for more than 24 hours in neutral cane spirit distilled thanks to a copper still with a swan neck to 83% vol.

It is then diluted down to 43% vol with water sourced from the Taisetsu Mountains and filtered through charcoal for optimal purity.