Bishop’s Gin takes its name from Englishman John Ponet, Bishop of Rochester and then Winchester in the 1550s. A reformer who questioned the divine right of kings and fought for religious freedoms, for example, he was controversial thinker in his time. His Belgian descendants would go on to found the Ponet distillery, in Hasselt 1763 and now in the 21st century Thierry Ponet is reviving the spirit of both. Bishop’s Gin is a London dry made with 8 botanicals including juniper nasturtium (also known as tropaeolum) and lemongrass.