Christmas Gins - The 2020 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!

• 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. 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 dark chocolate, treacle, ginger, orange, cherries 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.

• Coming soon. Or buy the 2019 Edition on Amazon

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Misty Isle Mulled Christmas Gin

For this warming Christmas treat, Isle of Skye Distillers 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, which is distilled in 36 bottle batches, and it is Christmas in a glass! A smooth mix of festive flavours including cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, sultanas and cherries with subtle sweet orange and lemon zest. 

• Buy direct from Shed 1 Distillery

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Tranquebar Christmas Spiced Gin

Tranquebar Gin is a Danish gin brand and they produce a delightful warming and subtly sweet gin that makes an ideal digestive after Christmas lunch. It features an array of Christmassy botanicals, including cinnamon, star anise, vanilla and cardamom. It's a slightly tricky one to track down and get hold of, but if you do, it's well worth trying!

• Wine Searcher shows the latest availability.

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Puddingstone Pudding Gin

Puddingstone Pudding Gin, known as 'PUD PUD' for short, is the winter release from Puddingstone Distillery in Tring, Hertfordshire. Locally made Christmas Puddings are added to the still alongside a vapour infusion of juniper and sweet orange, making it beautifully fruity and spiced but not sweet. This year there's also a Cherry edition and a Cask Aged edition of PUD PUD for you to try 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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Shire Gin - Festive Editions

The Shropshire Distillery have launched not one but two festive tipples in time for Christmas 2020. Their Shire Festive Gin is a classic gin with a Christmassy twist from clementine, cranberry and cassia, while their Three Kings Gin is distilled with nutmeg, cloves, clementine, Frankincense and Myrrh, complete with a gold label!

• Buy direct from The Shropshire Distillery

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Christmas Gin in a Tin

Inspired by the classic flavours of Christmas and designed to be enjoyed by a log fire, Gin in a Tin's Christmas edition features nutmeg, allspice, star anise and orange for a fully festive flavour. The quirky turkey presentation tin makes for an ideal gift, if you manage not to drink it yourself!

• Buy direct from Gin in a Tin

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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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Berkshire Botanical Gin

This may not initially sound like the most Christmassy of gins, but if you're looking for a classic London Dry Gin with a festive connection, this is a perfect option. It's distilled on the Yattendon Estate, home to one of the UK's largest Christmas Tree farms, and the gin features pine needles from the trees!

• ​Buy direct from Amazon or Master of Malt

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Batch Premium Gin

The story of the Three Wise Men has inspired the inclusion of Frankincense and Myrrh in Batch Distillery's flavoursome gin. Alongside classic botanicals such as juniper, coriander seeds and angelica root, Batch Premium Gin also features winter spices of clove, nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice for an ideal Christmas G&T.

• Buy on Master of Malt 

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Gin-Gle Gin Christmas Spirit

This festive gin from El-Gin in Scotland is inspired by a family Christmas cake recipe dating back more than five generations. They have taken that original recipe and created a gin which tastes and smells like Christmas in a glass, with nutmeg, cinnamon, glace cherries, cloves and sultanas.

• Buy from El-Gin

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