Inshriach Speyside Navy Strength Dry Gin

The Inshriach Distillery came to fame in 2015 by winning Channel 4’s Shed of the Year and was instrumental in launching a prize-winning gin. Now they have a new still, a new team and are producing their Original 43% and Navy Strength 57% Speyside gins in the grounds of Inshriach House.

Inshriach Estate is in an area of outstanding natural beauty, a few miles from Aviemore and deep in the Cairngorms National Park. Not only is this one of last strongholds of Scottish juniper, it is an area abundant in interesting and edible botany. Inshriach pick all their ingredients within a few miles of the estate.

Tasting Profile: The purposeful big brother of the 43% Original, the 57% Navy strength takes the original formula of locally harvested Juniper, Rosehips and Douglas fir, changes the ratio of the ingredients and ramps up the abv. Still smooth and understated but now with added punch and bite.Resinous aromas like a winters forest walk open, leading to grapefruit, peach and aniseed. The palate starts with peppery juniper with an olive oil feel on the tongue when neat. Spiced but not hot, with a vanilla creaminess leading to a long finish.

 

“Low impact, locally sourced, sustainable and endlessly renewable, not to mention extremely labour intensive, our 43% Original uses only 3 ingredients – Juniper, Rosehips, Douglas fir – all of which we harvest ourselves.

 

The juniper is gathered in the Autumn, the Rosehips just before the first frosts. They are mostly wild dog rose but we occasionally raid peoples gardens and we pick the Douglas fir from Inshriach forest on the morning we need it. Those come back to the shed to be distilled and are then brought down to 43% using water from our own spring in the Cairngorms. Every part of the process from harvesting to bottling to labelling and distribution now takes place in house.

 

For each Edition we can trace the origin and the date of harvest for all the ingredients, be it Kinrara or Pityoulish, Rothiemurchus or Tomatin or even here at Inshriach, and we know who picked them.”

 

70cl

57% abv