Fresh, foraged ingredients …
After a long winter, we’re eagerly awaiting the arrival of warmer weather and the opportunities for gatherings that it brings. It’s not too soon to start planning your first summer social! Get the garden ready, start making the playlist and re-stock the bar cart with your favourite spirits before summer officially arrives. There’s no better way to celebrate sunnier times than with delicious drinks, and if you’re looking for a refreshment that would be an elegant addition to any bar cart and is full of flavour, we’ve found the new gin for you…
WILD, FRESH, FORAGED INGREDIENTS
Glendalough Distillery makes some of the most unique, luxury gins in Ireland that have won international awards and praise around the world, but what makes them so special? Glendalough Irish Gin is crafted with fresh, wild botanicals hand foraged by Ireland’s only full-time distillery Forager, Geraldine Kavanagh in the valleys and mountains of Wicklow. Treading lightly and never taking too much from one place, Geraldine forages all year round to capture the purest expression of Glendalough. “The inspiration for the flavour of our gin comes from the scents, sights and tastes of Glendalough and it’s my job to put that essence of place into the bottle,” she tells us. “The ingredients that we use grow in the wild and we take a lot of care to ensure that we don’t adversely affect the areas we forage from.”
DEPTH OF FLAVOUR
Geraldine’s daily harvest is then passed to Head Distiller, Ciarán “Rowdy” Rooney within hours of foraging, who uses small-batch slow-distillation to tease out the delicate flavours of ingredients such as wood sorrel, pine and elderflower. The freshness of the botanicals is a unique point of difference for Glendalough Irish Gin.
Glendalough Wild Botanical Irish Gin serves the taste of ‘a year in every bottle’, with four seasons of foraging in Wicklow encapsulated in every bottle, while Glendalough Wild Rose Irish Gin has an equally unique story. This exceptional gin was created by Rowdy as a tribute to his late mother and is still crafted today using rose petals from her garden which gives it a beautiful, floral flavour.
AN ELEGANT NEW BOTTLE
An elegant new bottle inspired by the rugged beauty of Wicklow has just been unveiled for Glendalough Irish Gin, and we can’t wait to get our hands on it. The bottle has been designed to look as though it has been picked straight from the forest floor with embossed botanicals, and is guaranteed to take your bar or tablescape to a new level of luxury. Look closely and you’ll find way-markers of Glendalough’s ancient past, making this standout gin truly unique and Irish.
TREADING LIGHTLY
Taking care of the place they call home has always been of utmost importance to Glendalough Distillery. They forage in a way that promotes regeneration and were even named Sustainable Distillery of the year in 2021. And with this beautiful new bottle, the sustainability doesn’t end there… when you’ve finished your Glendalough Irish Gin, this bottle will make the perfect vase/candle-holder/water jug – take your pick!
We can’t think of a more fitting drink to savour this summer. Pick up your bottle now and get ready to toast the new season.
The new bottles of Glendalough Wild Botanical Irish Gin and Glendalough Wild Rose Irish Gin are now available nationwide in SuperValu, O’Briens, Tesco, Celtic Whiskey Shop, Carryout, Molloys, all good independent off licences and on the Glendalough Distillery website. RRP €44.
