The first gin in the world using local botanical ingredients from Shetland, the islands lying at the far North of Scotland, and a gold medal winner at the World Spirits Festival with 95/100 points.
Bracing, crisp and richly aromatic, Blackwood's Nordic Dry Gin includes local wild water mint, sea pink, angelica and juniper berries as well as seven other botanicals from trading routes around the world.
Gin has been smuggled, traded and illicitly distilled in the islands for centuries.
This premium Dry Gin uses a local Nordic recipe reflecting the Viking origin of Shetland.
Ingredients used
- Juniper berries from Umbria
- Angelica from Shetland using a strain introduced by the Vikings some 800 years ago.
- Wild Water mint from Shetland, gathered from around lochs in the remote outer islands.
- Sea Pink from Shetland, gathered during its brief spring flowering from the cliff tops.
- Coriander seeds from Western Europe.
- Dried Lemon peels from Spain.
- Dried Orange peels from Spain.
- Cassia bark from South East Asia.
- Liquorice root powder from Spain and other countries.
- Ground Nutmeg from the West Indies.
- Cinnamon bark from Sri Lanka.
- Orrisroot powder from Italy (Florentine Iris).