OUR BOTTLE

During the period of Japan’s national isolation, sailors on a Dutch ship that was authorized to trade dumped empty gin bottles into the sea while at anchor in the Nagasaki port, but they were eventually picked out by tea masters and prized as vases for decorating tea rooms. This is why so many kelder bottles have been handed down in Japan in paulownia boxes.

Inspired by this story, MAWSIM’s gin bottles are quality-controlled for secondary use as carafes or vases.
From the perspective of environmental impact, reuse at the same place is one of the best ways.

  • If you don’t reuse the bottle, please recycle it according to your local rules.
  • If you soak the bottle in water overnight, you can remove the label.

  • Kelder bottle 1st generation

    July 2022 - September 2024

    Since they are made semi-artificially at a town factory in Tokyo, they have unique expressions, 
    such as shimmering, bubbles, and hairlines; no two are alike.

    <span>Kelder</span> bottle 1st generation

  • Kelder bottle 2nd generation

    from October 2024

    It uses color-changing bottles that would otherwise be discarded, which cannot be recycled even as glass raw materials. The unique color gradation from bright green to deep blue is no two are alike.

    <span>Kelder</span> bottle 2nd generation

What’s a Kelderfles

word “kelderfles” means a case bottle originating from the “case” in which bottles were packed and transported by the dozen. Kelderfles has a square vertical surface and can be stored in the cases without gaps, which makes it highly efficient for transportation and eliminates the need for a lot of cushioning materials, making it an energy-saving bottle of the Middle Ages.

From the 1570s onward, it was blown as a common utility bottle in the Netherlands, Belgium, and North Germany, and with the worldwide increase of gin consumption from the 1770s onward, it changed its shape from vertical to tapered. The vertical bottles tended to stick when withdrawn from the mold, making them unsuitable for mass production.

MAWSIM’s gin bottle is molded from scratch, rebuilt using this kelderfles.
It’s a special craft bottle enough to fill a special craft gin with special colors that evoke unknown jungles and medieval seas.