Spring is the most optimistic of seasons — and Four Stories Spring Gin captures it perfectly. Distilled by hand in the cellar beneath our shop, this is the second expression in our Four Stories range, and where the Summer Gin celebrates the warmth and abundance of the season to come, the Spring Gin is about something more delicate and more fleeting: the first jasmine blooms, the sharp brightness of early citrus, the resinous green of fresh rosemary pushing through the soil. Three botanicals, each chosen with precision, each contributing something essential to a gin of real elegance and complexity. Built on the same foundation of classic dry gin botanicals — juniper, coriander, angelica, and the time-honoured ingredients that give a proper gin its structure and depth — the Spring Gin layers jasmine, grapefruit, and rosemary on top with a lightness of touch that is immediately and completely beguiling. Jasmine brings a delicate, heady floral quality that is aromatic and uplifting without ever being perfumed; grapefruit adds a bright, zesty citrus sharpness that gives the gin a wonderful freshness and vitality; and rosemary contributes a resinous, herbaceous depth that grounds the whole and gives the gin a complexity and persistence that sets it apart. The result is a gin of genuine sophistication — beautiful in a G&T with a twist of grapefruit and a sprig of rosemary, or simply over ice when you want something that rewards a moment’s attention. Made right here, beneath your feet. At £36.99, spring has never tasted so good.