Blackwoods Vintage Dry Gin, 70cl

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A Juniper-led Gin, which will be handcrafted in a new artisanal distillery in the centre of Manchester; the first gin to be distilled in this great northern English city.

The Shetland Distillery Company, which produces the Shetland Reel Gin range is the most northerly distillery in the United Kingdom. The first gin will come on stream next year and the facility will create four to five long-term local jobs. Despite its Oriental Spices, Opihr is made at the oldest distillery in England, where gin has been traditionally distilled since 1761. Pinkster Gin was created by frustrated accountant Stephen, who no longer could drink beer or wine. Distilled by G&J Distillers then finished with raspberries at Pinkster’s Cambridge base. Over the years our vintage gin has won gold medals and been judged by experts, across the world beating many well-known brands in the process.

Blackwoods 2017 Gin Details

The makers list the Shetland botanicals gathered to make their 2017 vintage as Wild Thyme, Meadowsweet, Cowslip and Eyebright (a group of flowering plants traditionally used to treat eye infections). Certainly from the documentary clips I have seen about the Shetlands and their climate I’m mildly surprised anything grows there apart from heather, but the quartet meld together in a flavour that has breadth and subtlety as well as initial impact. “And I have to say that my first sip of the neat spirit snatched my breath away like an arctic gale – but what a stunning aftertaste.” Our second gin stems from our love for nature. Both of us SCUBA dive, and our connection to the oceans was the driving force to develop a gin that reminds us of our wild coastline. One of the distinctive elements in Cape Town waters is kelp. Somewhat unknown as a food source locally, we decided to experiment adding it as a key botanical to our gin. We liked the result, and thus our Cape Kelp Gin was born.

Two Birds Spirits was founded in 2013, in the quaint British countryside town of Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Fishers is an artisan British gin distilled on the Suffolk coast that uses rare botanicals to create a gin as pure and wild as the sea.Created by Shropshire lad JJ Lawrence and distilled at the Shropshire Gin Company, this brand had to fight for it’s name, but only Tiger Gin would do. Campfire Gin is the first product from the Puddingstone Distillery in Hertfordshire and it is produced in small batches.

Warner Edwards are craft distillers making artisan gin from their 200 year old barn, on Falls Farm in the picturesque village of Harrington, Northamptonshire. Hidden Curiosities Aranami Strength Gin – citrus twist / sliced pear and a sprinkling of dried barberries / Japanese sour plum, strawberry, or golden kiwi / shiso leaf dusted with crushed sansho pepper

The first gin distilled in Yorkshire, made with traditional slow distillation methods and pure Yorkshire water. Scotland’s first brewery and distillery, Eden Mill produce beer, whiskey and this beautiful looking gin. Hayman’s Family Reserve Gin– lime wedge Hayman’s London Dry Gin – lemon peel Hayman’s Old Tom Gin – wedge of lemon and lime Our first gin, in a London Dry style, is an adaptation inspired by an old Dutch recipe from the 1950's we found during our research.