Pink Grapefruit & Elderflower

A modern take on ~ A CLASSIC LONDON DRY GIN - 42% abv

CRAFTED ON THE WILD CORNISH COAST

Distilled with ~ 11 HAND-SELECTED BOTANICALS

WITH FRESH PINK GRAPEFRUIT & ELDERFLOWER

Distilled in ~ SMALL BATCHES

IN OUR 4 COPPER POT STILLS

BOTANICALS

We’ve hand-selected 13 different botanicals – carefully sourced from both distant and exotic locations around the world – to craft a spirit that’s bursting with Cornish Sunshine.

JUNIPER ~ from Italy

CORIANDER SEED ~ from Bulgaria

LIQUORICE ROOT ~ from Uzbekistan

ANGELICA ROOT ~ from Poland

ORRIS ROOT ~ from Morocco

GREEN CARDAMON ~ from Guatemala

CINNAMON ~ from Madagascar

BITTER ALMONDS ~ from Morocco

GRAPEFRUIT PEEL ~ (seasonally sourced)

VIOLETS ~ from Devon

ELDERFLOWER ~ from Cornwall

Our Process

As a fully-independent, family-run business, we at Southwestern Distillery like to celebrate the fact that we do things a little bit differently.

At the heart of our distilling process lies Tarquin’s three 250 litre hand-beaten copper pot-stills.

TAMARA, SENARA & TRESSA

To this day, these stills continue to be fired by direct naked flame and are sealed at the joints with bread dough. These distilling techniques are about as old-school as you can find.

Alongside these original copper pot-stills proudly sits the newest addition to the distillery, FERARRA – a state of the art, one-of-a-kind 500 litre copper still. Championing a combination of the progressively modern and the authentically traditional Tarquin uses these four stills collectively to create his internationally award-winning spirits.

When it’s time to create our Tarquin’s Pink Grapefruit & Elderflower Gin, we first start the process of distilling our flagship Tarquin’s Cornish Dry Gin as the base. To do this, 10 of the botanicals are added to our stills (with the exception of the violets) and left to macerate overnight in a wheat based neutral grain spirit.

In the morning Tarquin simply adds the missing violets to complete the botanical recipe, and then it’s time to fire up the stills.

As the stills heat up Tarquin is constantly monitoring the process, nosing and tasting as the distilled spirit comes off the still at different temperatures. We collect only the purest ‘heart of the distillation’ (achieved when the still has reached the magic temperature of 78’c), collecting and setting aside the ‘heads’ and ‘tails’ cuts (the first and last parts of the distillation) that don’t make the most selective taste and texture grade.

Post distillation, this ‘hearts cut’ (around 76% abv neat Gin) is reduced with de-mineralized Cornish spring water to bring it down to the desired 42% abv. Nothing else is added in true London Dry Gin style.

Every single bottle is then individually hand-filled, hand-labelled, dipped into a slow-cooker filled with paraffin wax, stamped with our Puffin logo, given batch tasting notes and then individually hand-signed.

We truly believe in the value of maximising the human-touch at every stage of the process.

NO SHORT-CUTS ~ NO OUT-SOURCING ~ NO COMPROMISE

When Tarquin puts “Handcrafted in Cornwall” on every bottle, he really does mean it.