Charlie van Eeden

Managing Director and co-founder

Elaine Lee

Assistant Distiller

Bradley Young

Director Of Operations

Trisha Foo

Marketing Communications

cat cortes [she/her]

Marketing Communications Consultant

Andy Hodgson

Founder

Jamey Weingaertner

Distiller

TANGLIN WAS NAMED AFTER THE CHINESE NAME TWA TANG LENG WHICH  MEANS "GREAT EAST HILL PEAKS”.

It is a neighbourhood in Singapore that used to be home to many Spice plantations. Like its famous neighbour Orchard, 17th century Tanglin mostly comprised of gambier, nutmeg and pepper plantations.  But, again like its neighbour, the colonial period saw Tanglin converted into residences for the Europeans and Chinese.


We like to call this is an old-world modern gin.  The pine of the Juniper is unmistakably there and the herbaceous flavour notes come from classic gin botanicals.  But the twist comes from Indian Amchoor – the powdered form of green unripe mango which adds an extra citrus note. And then we come to our not so secret ingredient (the clue is in the name, Orchid Gin). But its not used in the way you might think, we use two forms of orchid. Firstly Dendrobium nobile Lindl which is Shi Hu in Pinyin. The botanical is added in a powdered form of the dried stalk, mirroring its prominent use in Chinese Medicine where it was first described in Shen Nong’s Herbal Classics written about 2500 years ago.  

Legend has it that the juice of dendrobium can resurrect the dead, and is No.1 of the 9 ‘Chinese immortality herbs’.  Have we the first proof that drinking Gin is good for you?


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