9148 Benizakura Craft Gin

9148 Benizakura Craft Gin. The Benizakura 9148 Gin is the first release from the new Benizakura gin distillery (named after a park in the area) on the island of Hokkaido in the north of Japan. If there was a distillery that worshipped George Orwell, it’s Benizakura. This gin is named after the novel ‘1984’, with the ’19’ becoming ’91’ and the ’84’ becoming ’48’. The numbers in its name have been inverted to express the exact opposite of Orwell’s description of dystopia, but its really the flavours that drive this story home.