Six to try

Dingle Gin (€36.99, 42.5% ABV) A clean tasting gin in the London Dry style, it adds character and sense of place through the use of local botanicals such as heather, hawthorn, and rowan berry. Bertha’s Revenge Small

Batch Irish Milk Gin (€49.99, 42% ABV)

The Ballyvolane House folk use a whey-based by-product from local dairy farmers, adding robust and exotic spices.

Glendalough Wild Seasonal

Gin (€37, 41% ABV) Glendalough Distillery has integrated the best of all seasons in this expression of the Garden of Ireland.

Drumshanbo Gunpowder

Gin (€49, 43% ABV) The distinctive blue bottle heralds a restrained style of gin, its delicate notes of local meadowsweet blending with the signature gunpowder tea aromas.

Highbank Organic Crystal

Irish Gin (€61.99, 40% ABV) Expresses the character of its producers, Rod and Julie Calder-Pott, and the Kilkenny organic orchards where this apple-based gin begins its life. Fragrant, with hints of lavender and blackcurrant.

Listoke 1777 Irish Small

Batch Gin (€39.95, 43.3% ABV) A lively, citrus-driven gin produced in an historic country house outside Drogheda, which boasts both an intriguing back story and Ireland’s only gin school in which to learn about it.