Thanks for the description diana, I think we'll stick to gin. (Mostly because although I dislike gin, as I said before, I hate vodka!) We're still trying different recipe amounts and times before racking off the sloes. But the batch of sloe gin done in sept and racked for christmas was gorgeous!

I'm wondering whether the stuff still sitting on the sloes will taste any different. I'm also wondering what the sloe sherry will be like.