# Episode 254 - John Hall on gin’s ‘golden ratio’

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Podcast: [The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-drinking-hour-with-david-kermode-foodfm-2140598)
Published: 2026-02-20T17:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David chats to chemist-turned-Master-Distiller, John Hall, at Cornwall’s Trevethan Distillery, an IWSC trophy winner, about his new creation, ‘Aureus Vita’, a premium London Dry Gin based on a sequence of numbers leading to ‘the golden ratio’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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