Blackwoods Vintage Dry Gin, 70cl

Product Information

Our small batches are created with care and attention as our aim is to create distinct and unique products for your enjoyment. Jagos has a contemporary and stylish pale cream colour with a luxurious mouthfeel and unforgettable vanilla flavour.

The historical context of the Ardgowan Estate provides the perfect location for this award-winning spirit which is made traditionally using selected Scottish botanicals.

Alongside them are more classic gin ingredients like juniper, grapefruit, lime, fennel, and black pepper. What makes a cream liqueur so delicious is whole cream, finest natural vanilla and purest alcohol, so that’s what he created. At the time Old Tom gin was being made there were no glass bottles so gin was generally transported in a variety of casks or barrels from distillery to pub. Blackwood Spirits London Dry Gin, distilled in Hout Bay, is an adaptation inspired by an old Dutch recipe from the 1950’s. However, isolated and sheltered areas, like cliff edges, provide beautiful hanging gardens of unusually hardy plants which have adapted to survive in these extreme climatic conditions.

The only family of original English gin makers still distilling today, Hayman’s make award-winning English gin the original way. I’m not into flavoured or coloured ‘novelty’ gins, but this is very unassertive, with no real character other than a steady roundness and a citrus tang.My colleagues are already working with the Inverclyde Community Development Trust and we hope we can continue working with them to provide training opportunities for local people who will become part of the Ardgowan team. million equity investment in the business, led by majority shareholder Roland Grain, which enables Ardgowan to commence construction of their one million litre single malt distillery and visitor centre, due to start production in 2023. Moving from one found shell to the next, this hardy little crab goes with the flow and embodies the spirit of laid-back island life without a pirate in sight.

Your glittering gems will remain safely in the bottle whilst you pour and you can take them out whenever you wish by pulling the wand up through the bottles neck and removing the wands top cap. Both of us tried our hand at making wines, beers and liqueurs just for fun, but we realized that taking these to a commercial level would not be easy: the number of wine estates listed in Platter's wine guide each year just keeps on growing, and the craft beer market seems saturated. Wrapped around the bottles waist is a sparkling bracelet, which can be removed and adorn your wrist to accentuate the Diva in you. The original vintage gin, each year we select botanicals from Scotland’s best crops and distil in small batches using a traditional copper pot still for the ultimate taste of Scotland.

The first gin will come on stream next year and the facility will create four to five long-term local jobs. As part of this program, Distil secured the “Mardi Gras” trademark in Europe and the USA in 2019 and work has begun on both brand and liquid development. Reflecting the boldness of their Norse ancestors, Kirkjuvagr is a hand-crafted Orkney gin for the modern, discerning gin enthusiast. The magical alchemy of distilling, which allows for such a wide array of truly wonderful products from an equally wide array of raw material, captured our imagination and we were quickly hooked on trying out different things. As a nod to this our Old Tom has been lightly rested in oak which has imparted a sweeter vanilla note.

The new loan funds will support the distillery’s development until their first whisky matures in 2028 and kick-start the Blackwoods gin plans. 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). There’s one snag: as small islands are vulnerable to changes in vegetation they can’t guarantee a consistent taste year-on-year, so each year is a ‘vintage gin’. 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. With the unique location on the Duke of Northumberland’s Albury Estate, a group of dilapidated farm buildings on the banks of the legendary Silent Pool has been transformed to become the home of the Silent Pool Distillers.The deal also gives Distil access to Malt Whisky, with plans to develop a blended malt brand underway. Inspired by the beautiful nature of Shetland, we wait each year for the right weather conditions to harvest our botanicals. Blackwoods Botanical Vodka is distilled five times before it is infused with botanicals using bonification to give it a refined flavour profile. The original black vodka, Blavod’s colour is achieved naturally by using the Asian herb catechu from the acacia tree, known as the Tree of Life. Once complete this will be more than just a production facility, it will provide an opportunity for visitors to immerse themselves in the world of gin and we plan for this to be integrated fully into the distillery visitor experience at Inverkip.