To make this extraordinary gin, Glendalough 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.
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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