Reply #10: tch...that's not pine, it's juniper.

[Spider Jerusalem]

And you really ought to try the Sapphire. Unlike, say, Tanqueray, it doesn't overpower you with the essence-of-pine thing. One of the reasons it's my preference. There are two ways to ruin a perfectly good Martini: one is by using an excesively piney gin, the other is by adding an olive.
(And let's not even go into vodka; vodka is a liquor for uncultured Philistines and dilettantes lacking in refinements of palate who would rather taste mixers than a real DRINK, made with a real liquor like, say, gin.)