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 only 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 19^th-century apothecary, albeit one with a broadband connection. 

The Bermondsey Dry gin is a recreation of a classic, old-fashioned London Dry style. Smooth and rounded, with delicate floral and citrus notes it is an essential gin for a Dry Martini. Jensen’s Old Tom recipe was taken from a distiller's handbook from the 1840s. It is a true Old Tom gin, similar to those used by the bartenders of the mid-to-late 1800s. Unsweetened and earthy, it has a deep flavour that adds complexity to many drinks. In today’s congested Gin market Jensen’s stands out as a modern classic. The quality is second-to-none.