Sutors Gin

45.4% ABV

Size

70cl

Quantity

£35.95

£0.00

Sutors Gin is distilled with an ethanol base spirit created using their own grains, which have been carefully grown under the watchful care of agronomist and co-founder Ed. Unlike some other grain to glass gins, the team at Sutors Gin planted and grew the grain before distilling to create the base alcohol for Sutors Gin. Distilled using vapour infusion, the gin features a number of botanicals from the local area from seashore to hillside, river to ocean. Scottish Juniper and sea buckthorn, along with other botanicals have been carefully foraged before being distilled with the base spirit and fresh water sourced from a nearby spring. The flavour profile is described as juniper forward with herbaceous notes along with a burst of citrus from the sea buckthorn before blending into a slightly spicy, warming, lingering finish.

Tasting Notes

Flavours

Cereal

Citrus

Herbaceous

Menthol

Sweet

Nose

Sweet, bitter citrus, juniper and cereal.

Taste

Sweet and creamy, cereal notes, opening up to vegetal and herb flavours with rosemary, aniseed and an almost cucumber freshness, leading to big, bitter citrus, like burnt lemon and grapefruit peel, with a heavy juniper presence.

Finish

Long, with hits of slightly sour menthol and lingering peppery spice.

How to enjoy this gin

A slice of grapefruit, tonic and ice.

About Sutors Gin

Cromarty was the birthplace and home to Hugh Miller who was born in 1802. Along with being a stonemason, social justice campaigner, writer, editor and man of faith, he became a renowned fossil hunter and geologist. Considered to be one of the great Scots of the 19th century, Hugh’s childhood home, fossil collection and writings still have an influence and legacy in the area and provided the inspiration behind The Geologist Gin.

Production

The original Cromarty Distillery opened its doors in 1826 in the Highland town of Cromarty at the northern end of the Black Isle peninsula. Plans are currently in place to build a new Cromarty Distillery with the goal of opening the doors to visitors where a warm Highland welcome will await, along with samples of gin, whisky and more. In the meantime, The Geologist is made at Nautilus Distillery near Tain, home to Sutors Gin in the Scottish Highlands.