Glendalough

To make this extraordinary gin we forage wild botanicals in the Wicklow mountains all year round. Geraldine Kavanagh our full time forager brings the wild fresh botanicals to the distillery within hours of foraging where small-batch slow-distillation is used to tease out the delicate botanical flavours.  Glendalough Wild Botanical Irish Gin serves the taste of 'a year in every bottle' and perfectly captures a place in time with four seasons of foraging in wild Wicklow encapsulated in each bottle.  Created in homage to the bountiful valley of Glendalough in County Wicklow the new bottle has been designed to look as though it has been picked straight from the Wicklow forest floor.  Full-time Forager Geraldine Kavanagh's care for the land is preserved with a woven pattern sitting at the base of the bottle representing the handwoven basket with which she forages daily. From here wild botanicals grow and are beautifully embossed around the bottle. Look closely and you will find reverent nods to Glendalough's ancient past including the monastery archway seven churches and deer stone. In this way our bottle is transformed into a secret map for those who know how to use it.  Tasting Notes Nose: Fresh notes of juniper citrus pine - a forest clearing in spring.  Taste: Cool and mellow at first Summer flowers wild Autumn fruits warm spice.  Finish: Long and sylvan with warm Winter spices

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Glendalough Wild Botanical Gin

This fresh rose-petal gin was first made to honour our Head Distiller Ciaran ‚ÄúRowdy‚Äù Rooney's mother Rose at his little brother's wedding. Rose had recently passed away and this was his way to have her there in spirit.  Carefully-tended flowers from her rose garden are vapor distilled with wild roses and plants from the mountains around the distillery to make this an intensely floral gin. After distilling the gin is then further infused with even more roses to deepen the flavours and give it its lovely pink hue.  Nose: Bright lemon and blood orange soft juniper notes deeply aromatic and perfumed with fresh rose.  Taste: Distinct rose petal bright berries Turkish Delight citrus with a nectar sweetness.  Finish: Long finish with the floral notes lingering with pink peppercorn and a touch of earthy spices.

Glendalough Wild Rose Gin

Our Double Barrel Irish Whiskey begins its maturation process in flame charred ex Bourbon American oak. It is finished in Oloroso casks from Montilla  a small town found in the rolling hills of the Spanish countryside.  We choose the bodega the liquid the casks and the cooper in this region of Spain to deliver a terroir driven sense of this land  encapsulated in the liquid when we put our whiskey in these slow toasted casks for aging.  These specially selected casks combined with expert liquid finishing deliver a rich and complex flavour to our Double Barrel Irish Whiskey.   Tasting Notes  The nose Rich with dark fruit cherry raisin fig and Christmas pudding. Floral notes with lemongrass citrus and a touch of nutmeg.  The taste. Sweet and smooth with butterscotch honey and peppercorn dried fruit maraschino cherries and brown sugar.  The finish. Ginger spices a touch of almond and earthiness.

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