Dunnet Bay Distillers (Scotland) - Articles About Gin

Generate their own electricity using solar panels on the distillery roof. Also grow some of their own botanicals in their own garden.

Floral Scottish gin with interesting cliff edge botanicals including rose of the rocks & sea buckthorne. Great with rosemary and a splash of tonic.

The original Rock Rose elements have been toned down to allow the more piny, earthy notes from the star “Winter” botanical of spruce tips to shine through.

This extra special edition of Rock Rose gin was bought it back as a fresher version for 2019 using organic pink grapefruit peel, all lovingly peeled by our distillery team! These are added to our botanical basket along and vapour infused along with all our traditional gin botanicals. It is then lightly sweetened with muscovado sugar.

Just like a spring day in Caithness! Gorse Flowers: Bringing a gorgeous coconut like aroma to the distillation. Dandelion: Lovely earthy, liquorice flavours come to the fore and help balance out the sweetness. Coltsfoot: Once used in confectionary. Coltsfoot from the distillery gardens help provide more sweetness to the gin.

The original Rock Rose gets a summer makeover!

The challenge, set last year, was to make a citrus style gin using botanicals growing in the distillery gardens and with no peels! Lots of discussions and research took place with Hanna, our gardener, and she planted, harvested and dried the botanicals that have gone into the Summer Edition..