York Distillery - A Truly Yorkshire Gin Distillery
We make our award-winning gins in York.
We believe we are York's first legal gin distillery.
(It's pretty certain that illegal distilling of gin went on in the 18th Century 'Gin Craze' but no records remain of a single gin distillery in the city.)
As well as distilling our whole range in this Yorkshire gin distillery, we bottle, label and pack all our gins ready for distribution.
With such a world-class range of gins to its credit, this is a gin distillery Yorkshire can be proud of.
We make the largest quantity of our gins at our distillery in Murton Lane, York, which is big enough to do the hand bottling and store all the glass, labels and boxes required (It takes quite a bit of space!).
People are welcome to pop in to say hello, but we don't offer tours.
We have a bespoke boutique distillery opening in Skeldergate in York City centre, where we'll make our flagship sprits, and guests can watch and enjoy a gin while learning. We also offer gin tastings and sprits classes.
And you can always visit us at our shop at Pavement, York.
York Distillery - a home of York Gin
York Distillery is our boutique distillery housed in the grounds of the beautiful Middleton's Hotel within York's city walls. It is a working distillery, also housing York Gin's five-star tasting classes, a gin school and other events. York Distillery is a purpose-built space within Middleton's Hotel on Skeldergate. Guests can see our gins being made, make their own gin to take home, and learn tricks and tips of gin and spirit tasting. York Distillery opens summer 2024.
How we make our gins in our York distillery
We use the vapour-infusion technique of gin making - this ensures consistency of flavour batch after batch after batch.
Our beautiful copper still is called Eboracum, named after the Roman name for York.
Botanicals which flavour the gins are held in a basket in the still.
The pure alcohol is heated to become a vapour which takes on the flavours of the botanicals.
The vapour is then cooled back to liqud and is then diluted with pure Yorkshire water to make gin. Clever and very effective!
Sustainability
The gin distillery is powered by 100% green electricity from sea, wind and solar energy.
We also have an incredibly efficient method of creating the gins which has cut our power use hugely in the last year or so.
Our bottles are made in Leeds - only 20 miles away. And we recently significantly reduced the amount of glass they contain - and therefore their weight.
All of this adds up to a serious reduction in the carbon footprint of our Yorkshire gin distillery.
All our bottles and products are plastic free. And none of our waste ends up in landfill.
At our York distillery, we use a specialist company who recycle literally everything - converting some of the waste into energy.
We really are a sustainable gin distillery Yorkshire can take pride in.