Nose: Pine needles, cypress sprigs, casurina needles, sage, thyme, bay leaf, cassia bark, fresh-sawn fir and cedar planks. Astonishingly herbal and coniferous - exactly like the aromas of a pine plantation. [Interestingly, the dry glass aroma loses most of the pine notes and is strongly lavender and rose, like their Botanivore gin]. Palate: Pine resin. Bay leaf. Sage. Finish: Medium/long. Sweet pine resin flavours that linger into the aftertaste. Ideosyncratic in the extreme. You'll either love this or hate it. The nose is so piney it's hard to believe, and that character translates directly into the palate. I kept thinking I was tasting a pine-tree resin liqueur, it's so piney - in fact it's piney to the point of being a caricature. With tonic it tasted like the same gin with a veneer of tonic on top. There was no integration at all which is odd considering the stablemate Botanivore gin meshes so closely with tonic. It's not to my taste, but I can see the attraction and the distillery deserves credit for taking a chance on something novel. You could reasonably rate it as anything from 75 to 90 points, depending on how well it suits your palate, but the quality of distillation is unquestionably high. "Average" : 75/100 (2.5 stars)