Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin 70cl

Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin: From the Curious Mind of PJ Rigney

Our Irish Gin is slow distilled by hand in Drumshanbo in county Connacht, Ireland

Made with 12 different botanicals from 9 different countries paired with Irish curiosity

TASTING NOTES:

Exotic layers of fresh citrus, oriental botanicals, & gunpowder tea

Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin was the winner of 2022's Wine Enthusiast's "International Spirit of the Year" award.

Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin in is slow distilled by hand in Drumshando using 12 different botanicals from 9 countries, each hand-picked by PJ Rigney on his curious journey across the globe. Our namesake Gunpowder tea along with star anise originates from China, oriental grapefruit from Indonesia, caraway seed and cardamom from India and the classic gin botanical juniper from Macedonia. The meadowsweet in our gin is locally sourced and foraged once a year locally to the distillery in Drumshanbo. Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin is the winner of the coveted "International Spirit Brand of the Year" award at Wine Enthusiast's Wine Star Awards recognising the brand's innovation and contribution to the spirits world. Serving suggestions: To be enjoyed simply with a generous wedge of fresh red grapefruit and premium tonic water or in a deliciously refreshing cocktail.

The curious journey of a curious mind. Through the years, Drumshanbo Gin's founder PJ Rigney has taken many journeys from the familiar into terra incognita. In time, those travels brought him here, to the wild and unspoilt landscape of Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim. And it was here that his curious mind, filled with the great oriental traditions of distilling fruit, herbs and botanicals, got to work. He created The Shed Distillery of PJ Rigney, with its medieval copper pot stills, and began a quest to fuse oriental botanicals with the local Irish ones. As it turned out, they got on very well indeed. The result of this passionate exploration is Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin – unique, extraordinary, and as remarkable as the elusive creature PJ has occasionally glimpsed in the fields, the Drumshanbo Jackalope.

A creator of new recipes, an inventor, an experimenter - our founder PJ dreamed of building his own distillery, but not just any distillery. The location was crucial – it had to be wild, un-manicured, in the heart of rural Ireland. A place of curiosity & inspiration, surrounded by nature, immersed in rich history. He discovered the beautiful village of Drumshanbo Co.Leitrim, on the shores of Lough Allen, at the foothills of Sliabh an Iarainn (The Iron Mountain), and PJ knew he had found the location for his distillery.

It had to be an authentic distillery, a return to the traditional methods using gleaming copper pot and column stills, where PJ could experiment with wild grains, Irish flora, and exotic botanicals. The stills had to be state of the art to create the finest of Irish spirits. The Shed’s 5 gleaming copper pot stills – 3 focused on Irish Whiskey, and 2 on Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin – and 2 copper column stills – focusing on Sausage Tree Pure Irish Vodka – were especially made by Arnold Holstein in Germany and brought over to Drumshanbo, where PJ began his quest to make the Ordinary Extraordinary.

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