I’m a sucker for Apples – not just the computers, but the actual fruit. When you grow up in rural Worcestershire with three full trees in the garden (a Worcester Pearmain, a Bramley, and an unspecified russet) and a scrumpable orchard 110 yards away, and with relatives in Herefordshire next door, apples are almost literally in your blood…

So then I run into a gin, marketed:

It is a relatively unknown fact that gin is made from vodka. So, unlike other gins, our gin is truly single estate from field to bottle.

We press our organically grown cider apples, ferment them into cider, then distil into vodka then re-distil this into gin by infusing eleven carefully selected wild botanicals and our naturally pure water taken from our aquifer that runs underneath our orchards.

The result is our full bodied, sharp, yet fruity gin with tears and true provenance.

Our botanicals: Juniper, Coriander, Angelica, Liquorice, Orrice, Orange, Lemon, Hops, Elderflower and Bramley apple.

…and bang £37 quid vanishes from your bank balance.

Bygods it’s quite extraordinary stuff; I’m sipping it neat and at room temperature, it has sparkling spring-water clarity without even the lacklustre appearance of some gins which albeit clear seem somehow grey.

A sip, and I want to say it’s harsh – but it’s not… it’s not harsh at all, just very strong (48% ABV) and fruity, with a big toffee-flavoured nose, like the big round gold-wrapped toffees in a Quality Street tin.

This does not strike me as a complex gin – but that’s not a complaint; it lacks the petrol overtones of gins where the distillers have raided the Schwartz cabinet, so in flavour this is more like an apple pie than a dundee cake.

Also it contains Orrice. Who could not like an ingredient called Orrice?

Short version: I like this. Aside from the strength it’s almost a sipping gin. I suspect it will make an astounding martini.

Experimentation required.