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    LAYING DOWN ROOTS

    Feb 27, 2021 5 minutes
    BY ANDREW FAULKNER

    What scene could be more evocative of sipping gin than walking through a green forest on Oregon’s brisk coast, with fragrances of pine and rain-drenched shrubs? It is a scent that has guided many of the Northwest’s distillers in making their unique gins.

    Oregon occupies a landmass similar in size to the UK – 98,381 square miles, or 254,806 km² – but with roughly 6 per cent of the population. The lush farmlands of the Willamette Valley gave birth to vineyards producing world-class Pinot Noir. Portland has consistently ranked among the USA’s premier beer cities. It was natural that Oregon should be out ahead when the craft distilling movement started… last century.

    Way back in 1996, Jim Bendis founded a rectifying operation in Bend. Bendistillery started producing a single-botanical spirit made with 100 per cent western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) foraged

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