After Christian Jensen first tasted the vintage Gins from London’s lost distilleries, creating a finely balanced Gin that honoured these forgotten recipes became his obsession. That’s why Jensen’s is distilled in small batches, using only the traditional Gin botanicals.
It’s amazing to think that once upon a time, some 17,000 stills operated within the city of London, fuelling the city’s first Gin craze. When we first started working with Jensen’s, there were but nine licensed craft distilleries scattered across the town from Battersea to Bermondsey and, these represented the first new licensees since Beefeater in 1820!
Focusing on crafting small batches of authentic, pre-industrial style Gin, the small team behind Jensen’s distillery are emblematic of the new breed of passionate, well-versed distillers rejuvenating the London Gin scene.
Housed in one of the Bermondsey railway arches (just behind London’s Maltby Street), everything about Jensen’s—from its 500-litre cap, custom-built John Dore & Co column still, to its ‘lost recipe’ London Gins—is built on authenticity. Even the laboratory has the air of a 19th century apothecary, albeit one with a broadband connection. In today’s congested Gin market Jensen’s stands out as a modern classic. The quality is second-to-none.
