James Gin Asian Parsnip Navy Strength Gin | 57% ABV | 700ml | Distilled in the UK | Award Winning Gin by James May

"The idea to make some gin came to me soon after buying half of my local pub. It was going to close and, had it done so, living in the countryside would have been pointless. I persuaded a couple of friends to get involved and we all agreed that it seemed like an obvious and relatively straightforward thing to do. But of course it isn’t straightforward. Any reasonably conceited TV presenter or Hollywood actor will eventually have a go at making a gin and I was conceited enough to try it. But, in my defence, my gin really is mine, not a cynical branding exercise. I’d made some gin once on a TV show I made years ago and I’d always wanted to have a go with another one, and do something a bit more left field. Every now and then I'd pick up something or eat something and I'd think ‘I wonder if that would work as gin? Originally we’d intended to set up a small still in my garage so that I could experiment with some flavours - but it soon became clear that if I did so I would almost certainly go to prison. To avoid prison, we looked for someone we could work with and came across Hugh Anderson, formerly a soldier and now a Master Distiller lurking in an alarmingly cold shed about 20 miles from my pub in rural Wiltshire. Hugh is the Willy Wonka of gin flavours (at least we think that’s what the bloke in the Transit van shouted). I came up with this idea for Asian Parsnip, and Hugh said it was probably worth making a thousand bottles for the pub and to see if anyone else would buy it. He's a craft distiller, so that's as much as he can make really. We put it online. I tweeted about it, and we sold it all within a few days, which was a bit of a surprise. So, we made another batch. And then another one. And then we invented more flavours - like London Drizzle and most recently California Dreamgin’. Our experiment, originally intended as a bit of fun, has turned into a gin-fuelled monster. The shed, where the magic happens, remains as freezing as ever." Ingredients Parsnip, Ginger, Caraway Seed, Cubeb Pepper, Fenugreek, Cardamom, Grains of Paradise, Liquorice Root, Sweet Orange, Juniper, Angelica Root, Coriander Seed, Water.