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When the founders of Spitfre Heritage Gin asked world champion distiller John Walters to make an authentic 1930s botanical gin ft to fy the iconic aircraft’s name another piece of aviation history dropped into place.Spitfre Heritage Gin is inspired by the young women who few Spitfres across Britain during WWII. These pilots few their aircraft unarmed and unprotected as they moved them from station to station. If they encountered enemy planes, their only choice was to outfy them: and they did.Their kit included a ‘snifter’ of gin.This rare and beautiful single estate, small batch gin is distilled at a peaceful Cambridgeshire Georgian farm in the heart of Blighty in hand-beaten copper stills. As well as rose petals, star anise, coriander, almonds, juniper and two kinds of orange, it contains Rosemary – for remembrance, and Borage – for courage. The perfect blend to celebrate women who dared.SPITFIRE SNIFTER