Top award for Wild Botanical gin

DESPITE only being launched four months ago, Glendalough Distillery’s new Wild Botanical Gin has already scooped its first major award.

The gin won a gold medal at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, known colloquially in the trade as ‘ The Oscars of the Spirits Industry’.

Glendalough Distillery’s Wild Botanical Gin is the newest addition to the company’s established and award-winning stable of gins. It uses fresh botanicals (never dried) from the Wicklow hills, carefully and sustainably foraged from March to October by Geraldine Kavanagh, which are then slow-distilled by stillman Rowdy Rooney.

The new gin was launched in January at an invite-only party that featured Brian O’Driscoll and Amy Huberman, and the feedback on the locally-foraged spirit to date has been so positive that the company is distilling twice a day just to keep up with demand.

Determined to carve their own way, a few friends from Dublin and Wicklow founded Glendalough Distillery to revive Ireland’s lost heritage of great spirits distillation and create innovative, exciting brands.

Together, they created Ireland’s first craft distillery in Glendalough, harnessing fourteen centuries of Irish spirits-making tradition that stretches back to monks who made the world’s first distilled spirit—poitín—as early as 584 A.D.

On every Glendalough Distillery bottle, the image of St. Kevin represents the distillery’s embrace of this ancient heritage and the wildly independent Irish character.

The Glendalough range includes Poitín, Whiskey (7 & 13 year old single malts and their Double Barrel whiskey), Seasonal Gins and now this new Wild Botanical Gin. For more information contact www.glendaloughdistillery.com.