Cotswolds Hedgerow Gin is a Cotswolds Distillery fruit gin made by combining Cotswolds Dry Gin with hedgerow fruits and berries including sloes, elderberries, damsons, plums and blackberries. The gin is bottled with enough strength for a clean long drink, but its identity is defined less by power than by the precision of its botanical direction. The key aromatic frame brings together sloes, elderberries, damsons, plums, blackberries, juniper, coriander and angelica root. This matters because the bottle is not trying to behave like a neutral London Dry. It keeps the category readable through juniper and dry structure, then lets its chosen plants define the personality of the drink.

On the nose, sweet blackberry, baked plums, sloe skin and a darker hedgerow berry depth. The first impression should be read as a progression rather than a list of equal ingredients: the most expressive botanicals arrive first, while juniper, roots and spice provide the dry line underneath. On the palate, the gin is rich and fruity but still gin-based, with berry sweetness balanced by dry juniper and a gentle tart edge. Texture is important here. A good description of this gin needs to mention the attack, the middle and the finish, because the real interest appears when sweetness, bitterness, citrus, herbs, spice or fruit start to separate after dilution.

In a gin and tonic, the safest serve is tonic, sparkling wine or neat over ice, with blackberries and orange peel. The glass should stay simple: plenty of clear ice, a measured tonic and a garnish that echoes the gin instead of covering it. This gin can also work in lighter highballs or aperitif-style cocktails when the mixer respects its main aromatic line. The finish is juicy, deep and gently tart, closer to hedgerow fruit than candy. It is a bottle to present through its own botanical logic, not as an interchangeable gin, and that is what makes the perfect serve easier to understand.