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To make this extraordinary gin, we forage wild plants in the mountains around the distillery. What we pick goes fresh into the still within hours of foraging. All the plants are sustainably picked by our full time forager, every day we distil. We take a lot of care that we don't adversely affect the areas we find them in. Our aim is to leave no trace that we were ever there. It's harder work but worth it to keep the mountains beautiful and wild.

Then these wild botanicals are painstakingly slow-distilled to tease out delicate flavours, in very small batches of less than 250 liters. Some go in the pot, and some are hung in a basket to let vapours extract their essential oils. The cut-points are decided batch by batch, by smell and taste (never timed or automated) as if each batch is the first.

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Glendalough Wild Botanical Gin

Glendalough Irish Whiskey Limited

This fresh, rose-petal gin was first made to honour our head distiller's mum, Rose, at his little brother's wedding. Rose had recently passed away, and this was his way to have her there in spirit - literally.

Carefully-tended flowers from her rose garden are slowly vapor distilled with wild roses and plants from the mountains around the distillery to make this an intensely floral gin. After distilling, the gin is then further infused with even more roses to deepen the flavours and give it its lovely pink hue.

Distilled Gin

Glendalough Rose Gin

The seasonal gin range is a set of gins unlike any other. 
Each season Glendalough forage what grows at that time of year to make a batch with botanicals from that small window of time. 

The Spring Gin is a fresh mix of young green shoots and wild young leaves. 

Open a bottle and they will bring you to a place and time with a taste of our home in the Wicklow mountains.

Glendalough Spring

The seasonal gin range is a set of gins unlike any other. 
Each season Glendalough forage what grows at that time of year to make a batch with botanicals from that small window of time. 

The Summer Gin is more floral, like a meadow in bloom, with some light early fruits. 

Open a bottle and they will bring you to a place and time with a taste of our home in the Wicklow mountains.

Glendalough Summer

The seasonal gin range is a set of gins unlike any other. 
Each season Glendalough forage what grows at that time of year to make a batch with botanicals from that small window of time. 

The Autumn Gin is packed with wild fruits and berries, and is truly the bounty of the surrounding mountains bottled. 

Open a bottle and they will bring you to a place and time with a taste of our home in the Wicklow mountains.

Glendalough Autumn

To make this exclusive, small-batch Gin we foraged a huge number of botanicals from the Wicklow coast, forests and mountainside with Clodagh. The result was the creation of this deliciously spicy gin available exclusively in Tesco (Ireland).

A chance meeting at a Taste the Emerald Isle event in London resulted in the release of our Glendalough Gin by Clodagh McKenna.

Both Clodagh and ourselves at Glendalough Distillery were representing the best of Irish produce at the Irish themed event in London. We got to talk about all things wild and foraged and together we hatched a plan. Clodagh would come foraging in the garden of Ireland, Co. Wicklow, and together we would make a bespoke Gin.

Just three weeks later Clodagh was foraging in the mountains, along the hedgerows and by the sea in Co. Wicklow perfecting her Glendalough Gin botanical recipe.

Clodagh’s chosen wild plants went straight in to the still the day they were picked. The result is a terroir inspired, deliciously spicy gin.

Glendalough Gin by Clodagh McKenna

Glendalough Beech Leaf:
Dieser Gin ist ein Teil der  Limited Edition-Serie "The Ginteresting Series" von Glendalough Distillery. Diese handgefertigte Kleinserie umfasst den Gin Beech Leaf, Dillisk und Sloe. Glendalough ist stolz darauf, seine eigenen Pflanzenstoffe zu suchen, und der Beech Leaf Gin ist keine Ausnahme. Im Sommer pflücken sie die weichen, flaumigen Blätter der Bergbuche um ihre Brennerei, die sie direkt zu ihrem Kupferstill hinzugefügt und einen krautigen, honigfarbenen Gin erzeugt haben.

Glendalough Beech Leef Gin

Glendalough make this Gin in August when the Wicklow hedgerows are full of blackberries, warm and ripened by the sun. The mountains around the distillery change colour from green to purple as the heather ripens, heather flowers are picked when they are in full bloom and the pollen makes the mountain air smell like honey. Wild blackberries and heather are rested in the signature base gin. The natural sweetness of the fruit and the pollen make the gin just sweet enough, no sugar is added.

Glendalough Wildblackberry & Mountain Heather

Glendalough Dillisk Gin:
Auch dieser Gin gehört zur neuesten Limited Edition-Serie "The Ginteresting Series" von Glendalough Distillery dazu. Diese handgefertigte Kleinserie umfasst den Gin Beech Leaf, Dillisk und Sloe. Glendalough ist stolz darauf, seine eigenen Pflanzenstoffe zu suchen, und der Dillisk darf da keine Ausnahme machen. Das Team pflückt rund um die Brennerei, die frischen Zutaten, die sie direkt zu ihrem Kupferstill hinzufügen und den Glendalough Dillisk Gin zu kreieren.

Glendalough Dillisk Gin

As a craft distillery, with a small gin still, surrounded by mountains full of wild ingredients, we can't help experimenting sometimes. As a result, we find ourselves bottling some limited edition, experiments from time to time.

We call them the "Ginteresting Series". So far we've released Dillisk (sea weed), Sloe, Beech Leaf, and Wild Blackberry & Mountain Heather Gins.

While we have countless experiments waiting in the wings, most are only available through our online shop, these are very limited releases of small batches that sell out fast.As a craft distillery, with a small gin still, surrounded by mountains full of wild ingredients, we can't help experimenting sometimes. As a result, we find ourselves bottling some limited edition, experiments from time to time.

Sloe Gin

Glendalough Sloe Gin

Slow distilled by hand in the medieval copper pot stills with oriental botanicals and gunpowder tea. 8 pot still botanicals and 4 vapour infused botanicals are combined in the oriental traditions of distilling. Every bottle is hand filled, labelled and sealed by our dedicated team of distillers.
Exotic, Long &amp; Mysterious Finish
Smooth layers of fresh citrus with subtle notes of spicier oriental botanicals and the intriguing gunpowder tea, bring a refreshing excitement to this Irish curiosity.
Botanical Trail from The Curious Mind
Through the years PJ Rigney has taken many journeys from the familiar into terra incognita. From the rural wilds of Drumshanbo to the mountains of Macedonia, to the Eastern Province of Zhejiang, China, each of the 12 intriguing botanicals were individually added to PJ Rigney’s secret tabernacle.

Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin

The Shed Distillery

In Japan there is a temporary period in spring when the sakura (cherry) blossoms are in full bloom. In a tradition known as "hanami", people go out to celebrate the cascading of these flowers and the change of seasons.

The Blossom Gin is born from a base of locally grown barley that is distilled into a traditional shochu spirit. The Shōchū is distilled with juniper, regional citrus fruits, cherry blossoms and local botanicals. The fruits of this endeavor can be seen in the delicate floral aromas, which are modeled on those of the mountains and the coast around our home in Kagoshima.

Botanicals: Juniper, Cherry Blossom, Orange

Ukiyo Japanese Blossom Gin

Kirker Greer

Yuzu is a citrus fruit that is grown and loved in Japan. Visually similar to a lemon, but with a strong scent, unique herbal notes, mild bitterness and a less pungent acidic taste.

The Yuzu Gin is born from a base of locally grown barley that is distilled into a traditional shochu spirit. The Shōchū is distilled with juniper, yuzu, local citrus fruits and botanicals, respecting the 1500 year old tradition of growing and harvesting yuzu in Japan. The yuzu taste is tart and fragrant, similar to that of lemon and grapefruit, with a hint of tangerine.

Botanicals: juniper, yuzu citrus, bitter orange, coriander

Ukiyo Japanese Yuzu Gin

Dingle Original Gin is the product of a considerable amount of research, both technical and historical, and experimentation. The aim was to create a completely unique gin that was in the great tradition of gin distillation, but also came up with a certain amount of innovation.

In terms of its broad style, it is categorized as a London Dry Gin, but the unique character and taste come from our careful and original selection of plants.

This combination of flavor elements is macerated in alcohol for 24 hours. When the spirit is then distilled, it passes through an aroma basket in the neck of the still. This process underscores the attention to detail that is an integral part of our overall approach to the art of distillation.

Mountain ash berries, fuchsia, moor myrtle, hawthorn and heather, among others, are used for a taste of the Kerry landscape. It is a formula unknown elsewhere that is calculated, among other things, to create the feeling of place and provenance. The alcohol is collected at 70% by volume and then cut to 42.5% by volume with the purest water we get from our own well, 240 feet below the distillery.

Dingle Original Gin 

The Dingle Whiskey Distillery

An Dúlamán Irish Maritime Gin is the first gin distilled in Co. Donegal. Dúlamán is the name of an Irish folk song which relates a conversation between two seaweed collectors (it is also the name of one of the gin seaweeds). The coast around Sliabh Liag holds an extraordinary bounty for such foragers with their centuries-old knowledge of harvesting and harnessing the qualities of these natural products. An Dúlamán bottles are reminiscent of those found along the Donegal coast during the wrecks of the Spanish Armada. Each bottle is wax sealed and the batch number is linked to the lunar phases.

To make An Dúlamán we capture “Draíocht na Farraige” (the magic of the sea) by using five locally harvested varieties of seaweed, as well as six other botanicals. This makes An Dúlamán as unique as the Donegal coast itself.

To ensure that An Dúlamán maintains its characteristic complexity and softness we have learned that Méabh (the still) likes a low ABV in the pot, and to run in a narrow temperature band to manage the delicate seaweeds.

An Dúlamán Irish Maritime Gin

Sliabh Liag Distillery

Ornabrak from the Gaelic “Eorna Braiche” (Malted Barley)

Crafted from 100% Irish malted barley and four times copper pot distilled, our single malt spirit is then distilled a fifth time with five carefully selected botanicals to create this complex and floral Irish Single Malt Gin.

Botanicals: Common juniper (berry), Douglas fir (needles), Garden angelica (root), Lemon verbena (leaf), Lemon (peel)

Ornabrak Single Malt Gin

Origin Spirits Ireland Ltd.

West Cork Distillers Ltd.

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New Western Gin

Drumshanbo Gunpowder Sardinian Citrus Irish Gin

Numerous extraordinary botanicals grow on the wild Atlantic coast of the Beara Peninsula in south-west Ireland. These were the starting point for the idea for the Beara Ocean Gin.

The botanicals that we use in the production of our gin come from the Atlantic. These include salt water and sugar kelp that balance on distinctive citrus flavors. Cardamom, angelica and iris root provide additional flavor notes.

The result is a unique mixture of local marine flora and traditional gin botanicals - and thus an extremely pleasant and easily digestible gin.

Nose: slightly zesty with a whiff of lime, pronounced notes of coriander and a bit of pepper, there is a kind of seabreaze in the distance 
Palate: surprisingly fresh, a bit musky-spicy, warm cardamom a bit flowery like lavender 

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