Christmas Gins - The 2021 Guide

If you're looking for the perfect tipple for the festive season, look no further - we've gathered the best in Christmas Gins. Discover everything from gins distilled with Christmas puddings, mistletoe, frankincense and myrrh, to gins inspired by Christmas cake recipes. There's classic gins with a Christmassy twist, all the way to full on festive spirits.

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Yuletide Gin

'That Boutique-y Gin Co' have created another deliciously bonkers gin for Christmas. As well as traditional gin botanicals they've added everything Christmassy into the still, including a gingerbread house, chestnuts, mince pies, Christmas tree needles, gold glitter, frankincense and myrrh. Could it be anymore Christmassy!

• Buy on Amazon​ or Master of Malt

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York Gin - Chocolate & Orange

Terry's Chocolate Oranges have become a Christmas essential and for decades, up until 2005, they were produced in the city of York. In homage to this and York's long chocolate-making history, York Gin have created this full-strength gin in time for Christmas with fresh oranges and cocoa nibs.

• Buy direct from York Gin​
  

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Sacred Christmas Pudding Gin

What could be better for the festive season than Sacred’s Christmas pudding gin, made with real Christmas puddings. Enjoy it in a festive G&T, a Negroni, or pop it in the freezer and enjoy it icy cold and neat as an aperitif before your Christmas lunch, or as a digestif after.

• Buy on Amazon​ or Master of Malt

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Eden Mill Candy Cane Gin

A refreshing peppermint gin with berry notes from Scotland's Eden Mill Distillery. Bilberry and hibiscus provide the wonderful red colour and it makes for a contemporary G&T with a blackberry garnish. 

• UK: Buy on Amazon​ or Master of Malt
• ​Australia: Buy on Dan Murphy's

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Warners Christmas Cake Gin

Warners' Christmas Cake Gin is inspired by founder Tom's mum's Christmas cake recipe. It is made with sloes, dark chocolate, treacle, ginger, orange, cherry juice and an array of festive spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. It is recommended to be served neat, in a festive Espresso Martini or with cola and orange.

• Buy on Amazon or Master of Malt

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Misty Isle Mulled Christmas Gin

For this warming Christmas treat, Isle of Skye Distillers (whose Misty Isle Gin was a Winner in The Gin Guide Awards 2021) soak their botanicals, which include juniper, star anise, orange and liquorice root, in Italian Amarone wine before distillation. The result is gorgeous mulled flavours of orange, cinnamon, dark chocolate, raspberry and juniper.   

• Buy on Amazon​ or Master of Malt

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Edinburgh Gin - Christmas

Edinburgh Gin's aromatic, spiced and warming Christmas gin features botanicals including frankincense and myrrh! Flavours of orange, clove, nutmeg and piney juniper come through beautiful and make for the perfect festive Gin & Tonic.

• Buy on Amazon​ or Master of Malt

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Shed 1 Gin - Festive Tipple

Shed 1 Distillery in Cumbria have created their Festive Tipple and it is Christmas in a glass! It's a smooth mix of festive flavours including cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, sultanas and cherries with subtly sweet orange. Be sure to try Shed 1's Festive Bramble Gin Elixir too, made with blackberries, plums and apples.

• Buy direct from Shed 1 Distillery

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Aval Dor Christmas Gin

Cornwall's Colwith Farm Distillery have given their Aval Dor Gin a festive twist! They've combined cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, star anise and fresh orange zest to bring the festive flavours to the fore. Serve it neat over ice or paired with ginger ale and garnished with star anise.

• Buy direct from Colwith Farm Distillery or via Amazon or Master of Malt

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Puddingstone PUD PUD Gin

Puddingstone Pudding Gin, or 'PUD PUD' for short, is the winter release from Puddingstone Distillery in Hertfordshire - named 'Distillery of the Year 2021' in The Gin Guide Awards this year. Locally made Christmas Puddings are distilled alongside juniper and orange to capture the spice and fruit notes, and you can even treat yourself to a Cherry edition or Cask Aged edition of PUD PUD too!

• Buy direct from Puddingstone Distillery

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Old Curiosity Christmas Gin

The Old Curiosity team, based near Edinburgh in Scotland, teamed up with Great British Bake Off 2018 finalist Ruby Bhogal to create this Christmas tipple. The festive spices used including ginger, cinnamon and cardamom, and it's infused with mallow petals to give it a warm red hue that turns a vibrant pink when you add tonic.

• Buy on Master of Malt 

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The Shropshire Distillery - Festive Editions

The Shropshire Distillery have launched not one but two festive tipples in time for Christmas. The first is a classic gin with a Christmassy twist from clementine, cranberry and cassia, while the second is distilled with nutmeg, cloves, clementine, Frankincense and Myrrh!

• Buy direct from The Shropshire Distillery

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Wild Fox - The Holly & The Ivy Gin

The team at Wild Fox Distillery are always experimenting and for Christmas they have created this delight with freshly picked damsons, dried clementine wheels and festive spices such as cinnamon and star anise. Try it in a festive G&T to or with hot water and honey for warming Winter serve.

• Buy direct from Wild Fox Distillery

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Winter's Night Gin

Based in Lancashire, Ribble Valley Gin Company's Winter's Night Gin is inspired by the tradition of Christingle and winter nights by the fire. Uniquely, it features Mistletoe as a botanical, alongside sloe berries, cloves, cinnamon and orange peel for a truly festive feel.

• Buy direct from Ribble Valley Gin Co

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Tappers Gin - Figgy Pudding

Tappers Gin is based in West Kirby, Wirral, and this is their stunning limited edition inspired by Figgy Pudding - the Christmas dessert dating back to the 16th century. It is made using the 'compounding' method and so has a deep, rich amber colour, and it is bursting with all the fruity and spice flavours y​ou associate with Christmas. 

• Buy direct from Tappers Gin​

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A Christmas Tipple Gin

Distilled to the Tipples of Manchester recipe by the team at the Old Curiosity Distillery, this is a gin to warm the cockles this Christmas. It is distilled with cinnamon, ginger and citrus aurantium (a herb that tastes like bitter orange). Give it a whirl with ginger ale, a squeeze of orange and a sprig of mint for a thoroughly festive G&T.

• ​Buy direct from Tipples of Manchester

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Gin Snow Globes

It would be remiss of us not to mention the most popular Christmas spirits of 2021 - the Gin Liqueur Snow Globe, typically 16% - 20% ABV and flavoured with Christmassy orange/clementine and ginger. While the contents may not be for traditionalists and craft gin lovers, they don't taste half bad and they're a really lovely festive decoration and gift, with some even having lights in the base... they're selling out fast though this year!

• Buy The Christmas Ball Gin on Amazon
• Buy Snow Globe Gin Liqueur on Amazon or Master of Malt

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For Something a Little Different...

If a Negroni is your tipple of choice then you won't want to miss Elemental Gin's limited edition Festive Negroni. The Cornish distillery have made just a few hundred bottles, featuring Christmas spices and zesty orange, ready to be served over ice with a garnish of orange peel and rosemary too if you have some (with roaring fire and Christmas film on TV optional!).

• ​Buy direct from Elemental Gin

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