Dutch East India Trading Co. · Est. MMXXVI

One house. Three gins.

Gin began as a Dutch spirit, and travelled here on the same routes as the botanicals that flavour it. We make three expressions of it — dry, spiced, and floral — distilled in Devon and stamped with one mark. Nothing else.

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01 — The range

Three bottles, and no more.

One dry, one spiced, one floral. Each 70cl, each distilled in Devon, each under the same mark. If a fourth is ever worth making, we will say so.

Colonial Conqueror — English dry gin
No. 01 · Dry

Colonial Conqueror

The house standard. Juniper and angelica do the heavy lifting; citrus lifts the top; cucumber rounds it out. Balanced rather than bracing.

GIN-001 · 70cl · 42%£42.00
Asian Persuasion — spiced gin
No. 02 · Spiced

Asian Persuasion

The trade-route bottle. Sweet vanilla and mandarin sit forward; cassia, ginger and allspice carry the warmth underneath. Bold without being loud.

GIN-002 · 70cl · 42%£44.00
Floral Flirtation — citrus and floral gin
No. 03 · Floral

Floral Flirtation

The bright one. Pink grapefruit and lemon verbena over elderflower and chamomile, with just enough juniper underneath to keep it honest. Light, dry, and long.

GIN-003 · 70cl · 40%£42.00
First run · MMXXVI · Distilled in Devon, England
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02 — The making

The botanicals did the travelling.

Juniper, coriander seed, cassia, cardamom, angelica, citrus peel. The bill for a gin reads like a cargo manifest, because for two hundred years that is exactly what it was.

/ Base

Neutral grain

A clean English grain spirit. Nothing to hide behind, which is the point — the botanical bill has to carry the bottle on its own.

70cl · 40–42%
/ Still

Distilled in Devon

Small copper runs in the Devon countryside. Heads and tails cut by hand, hearts only, no shortcuts to volume.

Small batch
/ Bill

Three directions

One juniper-forward, one spice-led, one citrus and floral. Three honest answers to the same question rather than a shelf full of variations.

Dry · Spiced · Floral
/ Mark

One stamp

The same monogram on all three, in bronze. The bottle tells you which one it is; the mark tells you who made it.

Stamped by hand
03 — House note

A name, borrowed forward.

The historical name is a piece of visual language — marks, stamps, ledgers, crates — and nothing more. The house itself is contemporary, small, and makes one thing.

DEIT Co. seal

Dutch East India Trading Co. makes gin. We started with a longer list and cut it, twice, until only the bottles were left. What remains is three expressions of one spirit, distilled in Devon and finished under a single mark.

We borrow the merchant's language — trading marks, stamps, ledgers, crates — because gin arrived here in a cargo hold and never quite lost the accent. No ships, no rope, no costume. Just three bottles we want on our own shelf.

— The House · Distilled · Stamped · Poured
04 — Journal

Notes from the house.

Short notes on gin, botanicals, labels, and what we cut to get to three.

No. 003 · Gin06.2026

On the case for a house gin.

Why we wanted a London Dry under our own mark, what we cut from the brief twice before the label felt quiet enough, and the small concessions you make when a bottle has to look right on a workbench and a dinner table on the same evening.

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No. 002 · Botanicals05.2026

The bill reads like a manifest.

Juniper, coriander seed, cassia, cardamom, angelica, citrus peel. Six of the most-traded botanicals in history, and all six sit in a bottle of ordinary gin. A short note on why that coincidence is the entire brand.

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No. 001 · The house04.2026

What we cut, and why.

We began with four categories and a shelf of ideas. The case for narrowing to one spirit, three expressions, and nothing else — and why a smaller range is easier to make well and far easier to explain.

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