The Botanicals
We handpick over half the botanicals that go into Blackwood's Gin in Shetland each summer. Each year we look to see which other Shetland botanicals we can add to make the next vintage even better.
- Sea pink flowers grow in profusion on the cliff tops, which are also populated through the summer by flocks of friendly puffins
- Wild Water Mint - larger leafed and stronger than the mint you might buy in a supermarket - grows in abundance around the lochs
- Meadowsweet flourishes around the boggy meadows around the Water Minty lochs
- Angelica, a key ingredient in the world's gins, is dotted around Shetland from mid-summer to early Autumn. We use a local strain of Angelica that arrived with the Viking settlers and so is only found here and in Norway
- Coriander, grown under glass near Tingwall in the heart of the mainland of Shetland