A Moselle gin, please!

(NAS/NG) - It took siblings Martine and Pol Streng from Grevenmacher a bit of convincing until their father, Henri Streng, got on board with the idea of producing gin. Recently the first bottles made it on the market.

It took, in fact, nearly two years. As the idea to produce gin in their own distillery developed, the siblings's father, Henri Streng, was a bit skeptical of the proposition. "Gin is produced worldwide. Why would we also just jump on board?" he asked himself. But the siblings didn't give up. And after they took a seminar on distillation methods at the University of Hohenheim, their father knew they were serious--not to mention that the Queen Mum offers an example of how the consumption of gin might not be such a bad thing after all.