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GIN YUMMY: Two British men have been granted Kyoto’s first license to distill gin and are now exporting the result to the rest of the world.
KYOTO DISTILLERY
SINCE AT least the 17th century, a spirit derived from juniper berries has been closely identified with being British. William Hogarth drew London’s poor reeling in its grip; Winston Churchill drank it with just a whisper of vermouth; the engine of postwar English social life was fueled by gin and tonic. So why would two British men decide to make a gin in Japan and then export it home?