At the Copper House Distillery, we use the ‘London Dry’ method to produce gins of exceptional flavour. First, we make a vodka-quality spirit using locally sourced grain, and our copper pot still and copper rectifying column. We then redistill the vodka in our gin still with a range of selected botanicals. To make First Rate, we use Longshore Vodka, which is made from a distillery wash of 60% malted barley, 35% wheat and 5% oats. This base spirit is exceptionally smooth thanks to its unique mash bill, and we put this vodka into our gin still with a special combination of 13 botanicals. With First Rate, you will discover something different with every sip. It is big, bold, and complex, and truly a gin to savour. This batch was created back in 2017. For this limited release, it was placed in an American oak barrel for a period of a few weeks. It is therefore a barrel-rested gin, and not barrel-aged. This short time in oak has added further complexity to its already rich flavours. The cask has yielded just 300 bottles and we are excited to share them for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee to celebrate Her Majesty's 70 years of service.