The Lydia Tangerine Gin

Name: The Lydia Tangerine Gin
Brand: Drops of Juniper

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£36

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Born from a mother’s love and her son’s penchant for jelly, this Tangerine London Dry Gin has been 'soothed and smoothed' as liltingly as Dean Friedman’s 80’s hit ‘Lydia, Lydia'. Dilly Dilly Distiller David Anderson says 'The inspiration for this Gin was my beautiful Mum, we were so incredibly close. She would make a trifle every week and my sister and I would steal the jelly cubes so she always bought an extra tangerine jelly for us which was our favourite. In the 80’s there was a song by Dean Friedman with the opening line ‘Lydia, Lydia,’. I used to sing it to my mum whenever I was in troubl

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Registered at Companies House as DROPS OF JUNIPER LIMITED, number 11403117. Checked 2026-08-29.
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The Lydia Tangerine Gin

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