Anno Cranberry & Gin

Beautiful red berries grown on low creeping shrubs all over the Northern Hemisphere. They have a wonderful tart fruitiness, used to create many fruit stuffs from juice to jam and have a distinct scent that reminds us of Christmas.

This traditional winter spice is native to the Indonesian Maluku Islands. We use Cloves to give our Cranberry & Gin a unique aromatic flavour, that is simultaneously strong, sweet and peppery.

We use our multi-award winning Anno Kent Dry Gin as the base for our Sloe Gin and our Cranberry & Gin, which is why it tastes so good. Have a look at our Anno Kent Dry Gin page for the botanicals we use.

Oranges are one of the most widely cultivated fruit trees in the World. Produced on an evergreen flowering tree the orange is actually a hybrid between the pomelo and the mandarin. It’s beautiful fresh notes bring a wonderful sweetness when distilled.

The orris root is the rhizome (mass of roots) of the iris flower.  Once important in herbal medicine, orris root is more commonly used in the manufacture of perfumes for its scent which is reminiscent of violets.  It has a heavy flowery and woody flavour that helps bind the other components in the gin together.

Considered one of the 50 fundamental herbs in Chinese medicine Cassia is often used as an alternative to cinnamon, which is in the same family and genus.  This often leads to confusion between the two botanicals in both taste and texture.  Cassia bark adds a strong cinnamon style flavour with an extra peppery punch.

These bluish purple berries are the basis and therefore the signature of all gins, and the prominent flavour in traditional gins. Although it has a berry-like appearance due to its fleshy skin, the juniper berry is not actually a true berry but a female seed cone from a conifer. Juniper berries have a strong and assertive pine flavour; the flavour is mostly woody, but it can have some slightly citrus and floral tones to it.

Coriander is the second most common ingredient in gin.  Although all parts of the plant are edible; the fruit or dry coriander seeds only a few millimetres in size are the part we use as a spice to flavour Anno gin.  When distilled the seeds have a warm, spicy, nutty flavour that can also combine citrus and orange notes.