About the spirit
Game-changing Coastal Gin all wrapped up in a bottle made of... paper?
Our first-ever Norwich gin makers debut gin is a coastal-inspired number with lots of lovely flavours and aromas you’d traditionally find on the Norfolk coast. It’s the same recipe that won Silver at the IWSC awards as well as Best English Contemporary Gin at the World Gin Awards in 2021.
“We use lots of rock samphire, we use dulse seaweed - a really nice, kind of red, slightly smoky seaweed - and then lavender, bay leafs, lots of citrus - grapefruit which is fresh and kind of a dried lemon which creates a bit more of a jammy kind of citrus - and then some pepper and a little bit of spice as well. So it’s kind of savoury, herbal, floral, and spicy. And a little bit of salt after the distillation which brings out all those other botanicals more.”
And it’s not just delicious, it’s also our first-ever paper bottle! Made out of 94% recycled paper and an inner recyclable plastic pouch, its carbon footprint is about 6 times smaller than a traditional glass bottle while still being 100% recyclable. It’s light as a feather too and looks the part.
Best before
Drink now and within a year of opening
Serving advice
Enjoy this with a small tonic, ice and botanicals of samphire and citrus fruit. It becomes a softer, fruitier affair, with the citrus, juniper and lavender shining through brilliantly.
Food match
Contains sulphites
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UK
Norfolk
Non-Wine
Spirit
40.0% ABV
70cl
Vegan
Vegetarian
Meet the spirit maker - Craig Allison and Rory Smith
It’s not often we get to work with exciting new producers from Norwich, just around the corner from Naked HQ. So when we got an email from a couple of guys called Craig and Rory, who said they’d been making award-winning gins in the fine city since 2019, we thought someone might have been pulling our leg. But after getting to meet them and taste their gins, we realised this was one of those rare instances where it wasn’t just too good, it was also very true.
The two met while working at another popular local distillery and had also worked together at a local Norwich gin bar. In 2019, that gin bar closed, so they decided to strike out on their own by snapping up the site and transforming it into a brand new cocktail bar - called Gyre & Gimble - where they started making their very own gin, distilled on-site, to be served at the bar.
The guys still make all their gins on-site and even though they’ve only been going a few years, they’ve already won big awards from the likes of the IWSC and the World Gin Awards. But they know they can achieve even more. Which is why they were so keen to join up with us. The extra support from Angels and having a local Norwich partnership means less hours on the road for the guys and more time they can focus on making their incredible gins. We’re absolutely chuffed to have them on board too.
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