Cotswolds Craft Gins
Six diverse and aromatic craft gins from across the Cotswolds reflecting flavours from the English countryside. Presented as a unique blind tasting experience - challenge your palate and try to identify which is which!
Featuring Capreolus Distillery Garden Swift Gin, Spirit of Ilmington Dry Gin, Oxford Botanical Garden Physic Gin, Bath Botanical No1 Gin, Hussingtree Bumbleberry Gin & Sibling French 75 Gin
Includes;
A blind tasting guide
Six 30ml numbered bottles
Information cards giving insights into the spirits included
A wax-sealed envelope for ‘the big reveal!’
180ml
Packaged and made sustainably.
This product contains alcohol. By purchasing this product, you confirm that you are 18 years of age or over.
Standard drinks per 25ml approx 1.3.
The Gins
Capreolus Distillery
Garden Swift Gin
Distilled with 34 carefully chosen botanicals selected to highlight and balance earth notes, sweet, sour, spice and florality, founder Barney Wilczak is influenced by the rich grasslands and woodlands in the Cotswolds. First, 20 botanicals are steeped in the spirit for 40 hours, with the rest suspended above the pot for their flavours to be extracted by the rising steam during distillation. Balancing depth in flavour with a silky elegance and gentle florality creates a luxurious sipping gin.
Bath Botanical & Herbal Apothecary
Bath No1 Gin
Run by Sue Mullet, this Bath distillery makes an array of spirits, bitters and herbal elixirs. Fascinated by the rich history of medicinal spirits, Sue began by making her own herbal tinctures and drinks, and with her background in science she then taught herself to distil, experimenting with a number of botanicals and distilling techniques before setting on the recipe and process to make No.1 Gin. Creating full bodied, floral and herbaceous gins, they use hand-picked wild flowers from Bath for a tone reminiscent of the English countryside.
Spirit of Ilmington
Dry Gin
Making cider dates back thousands of years in the village of Ilmington. Local apples are plentiful so, as many were going to waste or falling in peoples gardens, the team at the Spirit of Ilmington decided it was time to revive this ancient tradition.
They began with their Grumpy Frog cider, which they then distilled to make their unique apple spirit used for their apple brandy and also added to their premium dry gin for a distinct apple sweetness.
This sweet and spicy gin is infused with juniper, coriander, angelica root, orris root and orange peel.
Oxford Artisan Distillery
Physic Gin
This distinct gin celebrates Oxford’s Botanical Garden, the oldest of its kind in the country! Founded in 1621 as a Physic Garden for the research and teaching of herbal medicine, this release celebrates and reflects 400 years of botanical cultivation. Using many botanicals grown and foraged in the garden today, it is herbaceous and earthy, juniper and bay are prominent. Botanicals like wormwood, rue and sweet woodruff create a deep and complex flavour. Rich juniper, pine, sweetness, herbal notes and a nutty finish.
Sibling Distillery
French 75 Gin
This family run distillery is owned and run by four siblings. The distillery often signifies the importance of the four pillars of their business. Each sibling has an individual strength and creativity that drives the business forward, and by working together they have created spirits world renowned for their quality. This release is made using champagne-blend grape skins from a local vineyard and slices of fresh lemon. Inspired by the famous cocktail, it is bursting with citrus with rich grape and juniper.
Hussingtree
Bumbleberry Gin
A taste of English summer, this release includes three traditional British berries, Blackberry, Bilberry and Sloeberry, which are mixed with juniper and accompanying botanicals to create a distinct berried gin. Inspired by produce grown around their home county Worcester, their unique approach is to focus on individual botanicals and then work on supporting botanicals to best enhance their flavour. The distillery handcrafts their spirit in a copper alembic still, uses a one shot distillation and the London Dry method.