London Dry Gin · Baške Oštarije · 924 m
Twelve winds.
Twelve places.
One juniper.
Every botanical in this bottle comes from the one place on earth where it grows best. Juniper is north, and north is Velebit.
- Bottle
- 70 cl · 44 % vol
- Run
- 300 bottles
- Price
- 165 €
North
Juniper begins only up high.
On the slopes facing the sea grows prickly juniper, with red berries. True juniper, Juniperus communis, begins above 900 metres. We pick it on the slopes above Baške Oštarije, in autumn, by hand.
The berry takes two to three years to ripen, so green and blue hang on the same bush. We tap the branch over a linen cloth with a stick and only the ripe ones fall. The green ones stay for next autumn. We never pick in the national parks: Zavižan and Paklenica are the view, not the source.
The Harvest 2025 record →
01 · northJuniperBaške Oštarije, Velebit
The wind rose
Twelve rays, twelve places.
Around 270 BCE the navigator Timosthenes of Rhodes drew a rose of twelve winds, 30 degrees apart. We gave each ray one place. Six of them are in Croatia.
One distillation
One run. Three hundred bottles.
London Dry means everything you taste comes out of the still. After distillation only water is added. No colour, no sugar, no concentrate.
- I
Harvest
Juniper from Velebit and eleven botanicals from eleven places arrive at the drying shed on the pass.
- II
Maceration
Six botanicals rest overnight in the spirit in the pot, sixteen hours.
- III
Distillation
The Bura still, 300 litres of copper. Flowers and peels wait in the basket and meet only the vapour.
- IV
The heart cut
Mara cuts away the heads and tails and keeps only the heart, from 83 to 66 per cent.
- V
Rest
Six weeks in glass, then spring water down to 44 per cent. Nothing is added.
- VI
The number
Every bottle gets its run number and its own number, written by hand in copper ink.
Three bottles
One shape, three stories.
London Dry Gin · 44 % vol
Rosa Ventorum
Twelve botanicals, twelve places, one distillation.
165 €70 cl
Numbered · 46 % vol
Harvest 2025
Juniper from one autumn on one slope. 1,400 numbered bottles.
290 €212 of 1,400 left
By allocation only · 47 % vol
Degenia Reserve
The heart of the heart of ten runs, a year in Slavonian oak. 150 vessels.
1,250 €150 vessels
The distillery
On the pass between the sea and Lika.
A stone house at 924 metres, the Bura still and a drying shed for the berries. Open Thursday to Sunday, by booking only. Please arrange a driver if you are tasting.
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