A dedicated whisky fan, Dan saw the fields of golden barley around his house in the Cotswolds and had a brainwave ‘I suddenly thought, there’s barley all over the Cotswolds and nobody’s distilling it, let’s be the first! Due to the unusually high volume of botanicals that are used, the gin causes a beautiful pearlescent cloud to appear when ice or tonic is added. That high oil content comes into play on the mouthfeel too and at 46%, it’s smooth enough to sip neat.

From our single malt whisky to our gins and liqueurs, everything we make at the Cotswolds Distillery is about quality and flavour above all else. Seeking to leave behind that world and spend more time in the picturesque countryside of the Cotswolds with his family, it eventually dawned on him that he could combine his love of whisky with his desire to start a new business. Cotswolds Distillery claims to use 10 times the average volume of botanicals to create its gin, yielding a high proportion of flavoursome essential oils. Each was distilled individually over the course of a month so that they could get a better feel of how they could be used in the final recipe.At the end of the tour, you can make yourself at home in our stylish tasting room to sample our range of spirits and liqueurs. A botanical mix of Cotswolds lavender and bay leaf, grapefruit, lime, black pepper and cardamom seed is then added for distillation before finishing with naturally refined Cotswolds water. The Cotswolds – despite its bountiful land and booming tourist industry – had no distilleries in its 787 square miles. Please always read the labels, warnings, and directions provided with the product before using or consuming a product.

The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Geoff Taylor of the spirits lab at Campden BRI brought a team of spirits experts down to the distillery, and they collectively selected the flagship gin recipe. The first bottling to leave the distillery was the Dry Gin , in 2014, with the Cotswolds Single Malt Whisky following just three years later.He woke up one morning looking out over a field of golden barley and wondered why no one was distilling it, the rest, as they say, is history. These cookies are needed for essential functions such as signing in, storing products in your trolley and making payments. Unfiltered to preserve the essential oils from the botanicals, a pearlescent haze forms when ice or tonic is added. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. The General Wine Company is a family-owned and operated wine merchant in Liphook, Hampshire, England.