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The Road Home

Every route starts here and comes back here. Mountain juniper, a straight London Dry, the taste of getting home.

Route No. 01Currently pouring

Coordinates

41.4317° N, 22.0117° E

Kavadarci · Tikveš, North Macedonia

Field Note #001

The Road Home · Edition 01

Route

The Road Home

The Road Home

The bottle · Route No. 01 · The Road Home

The Road Home

"A classic London Dry Gin. Mountain juniper, no detours."

€42700ml · 43% ABV

Batch 01 reservation — no payment until bottles are ready.

1

nose

Pine forest, fresh lemon peel, a little pepper.

palate

Bold juniper, clean and dry, with coriander warmth.

finish

Crisp and long.

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The field note

What we brought home.

Some bottles are about a place you went to. This one is about the way back. The Road Home is the last hour of every journey — the moment a trip stops being an adventure and starts being home. It's a London Dry in the classic sense: juniper first, everything distilled together, nothing added afterwards. Simple on purpose. It's the bottle we open when someone comes back from a long trip, and the one every new route gets measured against.

Flavour compass

On the nose, on the tongue.

JuniperCitrusHerbalSpiceFloralEarthyN
  • Juniper9 of 10
  • Citrus6 of 10
  • Herbal5 of 10
  • Spice5 of 10
  • Floral2 of 10
  • Earthy4 of 10

Suggested serves

How we drink it.

Pairings

  • Aged sheep's cheese
  • Salted roasted almonds
  • Pršut / prosciutto

Cocktails

Road Home & Tonic

50ml The Road Home · 150ml tonic · lemon peel

Homecoming Martini

60ml The Road Home · 10ml dry vermouth · lemon twist

Dispatches from this road

The chapters, in order.

Every field note is a chapter of one route. These are the ones written from this one.

  1. Chapter 01The Kitchen Bench TrialsBefore there was a distillery, there was a kitchen counter covered in pots, jars, empty glass bottles and hoses carrying water to and from the stovetop still.October 2026 · 4 min
  2. Chapter 02Scouting Macedonian JuniperEvery gin starts with juniper, and ours starts at home. Early notes on sourcing botanicals around Tikveš as we prepare for Batch 01.October 2026 · 3 min

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