Ki No Bi is a Kyoto Dry Gin that uses rice distillate as a base and a unique selection of botanicals: yellow yuzu, Japanese cypress, red shiso leaves, bamboo, gyrokuro tea from the Uji region and Japanese pepper berries. Fushimi water, known for its purity, is then used to cut the distillate.
The botanicals are divided into six different categories: base, citrus, tea, herbs, spices and flowers. They are then distilled separately and assembled again.
The distillery has two discontinuous stills of German origin: a 140-liter still with an integrated basket for the botanicals and a 450-liter swan-neck still. The different shapes and sizes give the possibility to treat each botanical individually, thus allowing only the best aroma to be extracted from each ingredient.
Alex Davies, a master distiller from the award-winning Cotswolds Distillery, wanted to create a gin in which the centuries-old art of blending played an important role. Together with number ones David Croll and Marcin Miller, he thus created a product of the highest quality and completely innovative.
The bottle was created by a family that has specialized in glassmaking since 1906.
Distillates have different alcoholpercentages. So, we have defined a parameter allowing you to better understand and compare different prices. This parameter is calculated by dividing the bottle price by the alcohol content. The alcohol content (or strength) is the amount of pure alcohol (ethanol) contained in the distillate.
This parameter indicates the price of a single 4cl dosage of distillate. It is calculated by dividing the price of the bottle by its quantity (expressed in cl), then multiplying by the centilitres of the recommended single dose, as average in cocktail recipes.