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Hibernation Gin

Hibernation Gin 2017

£46.00

A wonderful, fruity, Welsh Gin.

  • Made by brothers Pete and Danny. The botanicals they forage for Hibernation Gin are influenced by the wild fruit harvest. This includes wild crab apples, blackberries, and bilberries.
  • They combine these with other locally-foraged botanicals, and precision-distil, before resting in a very rare White Port cask.
  • This is the world's first gin to be aged in a fully-seasoned White Port barrel, They consider themselves indebted to their friends at Niepoort Vinhos for providing this barrel.
  • Each bottle is hand signed and lot-numbered, recognising extremely limited production. Bottled at 45% volume, without chill-filtration.
  • Hibernation Gin is an exquisite sipping gin, or as a martini, and also makes a delicious negroni. Great for an excellent Gin & Tonic, but given that White Port & Tonic is such a fine combination, perhaps that's no surprise.
  • Vintage: 2017
  • Type/Colour: Distiller Gin
  • Alcohol: 45%
  • Bottle Size: 50cl
  • Country: Wales

"Of the 300 odd distilleries dotted around Britain, the quaint Dyfi Distillery must be one of the most picturesque. Two brothers recently set up shop in Corris, an old slate mining village in the Snowdonia national park, to make a one-of-a-kind gin using ingredients foraged in the Dyfi Valley's UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. It's all very bucolic-sounding, but the most important thing is that it tastes wonderful. too. It's the world's first gin to be aged in a white port barrel, and the ageing, combined with the recipe's crab apple and blackberry notes, makes Hibernation luscious and fruity. As there is such a limited run, all bottles are hand-signed and numbered." - Olivia Williams, The Spectator

Rested in casks that used to house Niepoort White Port, believed to be the first in the world to do so.