A British distiller has launched the world’s most expensive gin – with a 70cl bottle costing a staggering £2,000, four times more than the previous record holder.

Just six bottles of the prized spirit were made by Will Lowe after he found a way to capture the ‘angel’s share’ – the minuscule amount lost to evaporation during distilling – of his premium Japanese Gin.

Will, from Cambridge, painstakingly collected just 15 millilitres of the evaporated gin from each distillation, around one per cent of the entire batch, until he had enough to fill six decanters.

During the distilling process Will collects the angel’s share in a unique ‘trap’ chilled to a freezing -75 degrees C using dry ice, and it takes 100 distillations to make just one bottle of the rare gin.
He says the resulting gin is like nothing else on the market, and is comparable to the finest single malt whiskies in its intensity and complexity.