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Blackwood's Nordic Dry Gin awarded gold medal at World Spirits Festival

Unique The first gin in the world using local botanical ingredients from Shetland, the islands lying at the far North of Scotland. Bracing, crisp and richly aromatic, Blackwood's Nordic Dry Gin includes wild water mint, sea pink, angelica and juniper berries picked on Shetland by local crofters as well as seven other botanicals from trading routes around the world. Gin has been smuggled, traded and illicitly distilled in the islands for centuries. This premium Dry Gin uses a local Nordic recipe reflecting the Viking origins of Shetland. Winning taste Blackwood's Gin won the GOLD medal at the World Spirits Festival in January and the SILVER medal at the World Spirits Competition in March in San Francisco. Ideal in a gin & tonic, 60% of taste testers have voted Blackwood's Norse gin their #1 choice in blind taste tests and 80% placed it in their top two. This was against Gordon's, Tanqueray, Plymouth and Bombay Sapphire. This premium Dry Gin has all the aromatic richness of these classic gins plus has a surprising extra - the hint of the sea. All natural and all original.

Receipe & Ingredients

The secret of Shetland Dry Gin lies in the purity of the alcohol and the proportion of botanicals used in each distillation. The alcohol used in our Gin is barley and maize grain with a purity of at least 98%. Shetland is one of the few places in Scotland where juniper used to grow in profusion before the introduction of sheep which atemost of it! The botanicals used in our traditional Blackwood's Dry Gin include the following:-

• Juniper berries from Umbria
• Angelica from Shetland using a strain introduced by the Vikings some 800 years ago.
• Wild Water mint from Shetland, gathered from around lochs in the remote outer islands.
• Sea Pink from Shetland, gathered during its brief spring flowering from the cliff tops.
• Coriander seeds from Western Europe.
• Dried Lemon peels from Spain.
• Dried Orange peels from Spain.
• Cassia bark from South East Asia.
• Liquorice root powder from Spain and other countries.
• Ground Nutmeg from the West Indies.
• Cinnamon bark from Sri Lanka.
• Orrisroot powder from Italy (Florentine Iris).