Juniper Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Juniper (Juniperus communis), the common juniper, is an evergreen conifer of the cypress family, Cupressaceae, with the widest range of any woody plant, across the northern hemisphere from Alaska and Canada to Europe, Siberia and Japan. It grows as a prostrate shrub or a narrow tree up to 10 m with needle-like, sharp-pointed blue-green leaves in whorls of three. Female plants bear fleshy, berry-like cones that ripen from green to blue-black over two to three years, with a resinous, pine-and-citrus taste that flavors gin. We extract the dried berry.