Dingle Original Pot Still Gin

Dingle Original Gin from Co. Kerry has been awarded Overall Best in World at the World Gin Awards Ceremony in 2019

Dingle Original Gin is made in small batches of 500 litres. In terms of its broad style, this is what is categorised as a London dry gin but the unique character and flavour come from our painstaking and original choice of botanicals.

This secret combination of flavour elements is macerated in spirit for 24 hours. Then, when the spirit is distilled, it passes through a flavour basket in the neck of the still. This underlines the attention to detail that is an essential part of the whole approach to the art of distillation.

They are not prepared to reveal their recipe but are happy to give some idea of what is involved in creating the unique flavour profile of Dingle Original Gin. They use, amongst other botanicals, rowan berry from the mountain ash trees, fuchsia, bog myrtle, hawthorn, and heather for a taste of the Kerry landscape. It’s a formula unknown elsewhere and is calculated, amongst other things, to create some sense of place and provenance, what winemakers might call the gout de terroir..

The spirit is collected at 70% abv and then cut to 40% abv using the purest of water which they draw from our own well, 240 feet below the distillery.