Dyfi Distillery Pollination Gin 45% abv 50cl WINNER - Best UK Gin - Great British Food awards 2017!!!! Made with wild Welsh botanicals foraged in the Dyfi Biosphere They say: 'Our passion is to produce an exceptional gin of world-class quality, which could come from nowhere else. The Dyfi is recognised by UNESCO as a World Biosphere Reserve, and provides us with an enviable and unique flora spectrum to draw upon, as well as a meticulous selection the finest classic gin botanicals. Pollination gin is produced by the highest standard London Dry method, in extremely limited small batches, using pure grain spirit and locally drawn spring water. Our foraged botanicals come from within the Biosphere: from the Snowdonia foothills, through the Dyfi Forest, and down to the estuary marshlands. On a canvas of carefully selected classic gin botanicals, we 'paint' the flavours only Dyfi can combine, including wild flowers, aromatic leaves, fruits and conifer tips. We steep these components together in a temperature-controlled maceration, before precision-distilling in our small Colorado stills. We can’t create Pollination Gin all year round, and in order to ensure sustainability, production is necessarily very limited. Each bottle is hand signed and lot-numbered. 45% alcohol by volume, non-chill filtered' We say its a fabulous gin, with or without tonic, and if you are in North Wales come and see us and try it. We keep this, and 9 other welsh gins, on taste (or to drink in) permanently!
Dyfi Distillery -
Our location in the old slate mining village of Corris allows us to be very close to where so many of our botanicals are foraged.
We distil in very small batches, using two small 100-litre stills. After looking at options from all over the world, our preference lay with a specialist still maker in Colorado. We further customized the stills after shipping, so we could challenge one or two conventions, whilst respecting the best of tradition.
The result is what we call Precision-Distilling. We have developed and adapted techniques which allow for maximum control over maceration temperatures, variable copper contact for distillation and much more besides. Our stills can move from maceration- to distillation-temperature in an incredibly short time, which also contributes to optimum extraction of essential oils.