Selkirk Distillers
  • Location: Selkirk, Scottish Borders (Scotland)​
  • Still Type: Pot Still
  • Contact: Website / Email / Instagram

Selkirk Gin was launched in 2017, founded by two married couples, Allan and Jane Walker, and Dave and Susan Myatt. Coming from professional backgrounds in the police force, community nursing, engineering and physiology respectively, the quartet had a desire to showcase the history and natural resources of the Scottish Borders through their spirits. Having initially worked with Strathearn Distillery, Selkirk Distillery was established in 2019 and the team began distilling in-house.

Selkirk Gin

  • ​The Gin Guide Awards 2022: Winner - Traditional Gin category
  • ​ABV: 43% (Base Spirit: Grain).
  • Botanicals: 13 including juniper, gorse flowers, rose petals, rose hip, orange peel, grapefruit peel, bilberry, calamus root, lemon verbena.
  • Buy: (£35 - £40) direct from Selkirk Distillers.
Tasting Notes: Aromas of juniper, grapefuit peel and floral gorse and rose. On the palate, juniper, oily citrus and florals. A finish of bittersweet citrus and gingery-calamus root.
Serving Suggestion / Garnish: Gin & Tonic with a garnish of Orange or Orange Peel, or in a Negroni, Martini or White Lady cocktail.
The Gin Guide Review: Selkirk Gin delivers a classic core of traditional botanicals, layered with bittersweet citrus and the floral characters of gorse and rose. The juniper is plentiful, the citrus is oily and enticing, and the floral botanicals are notably present without being soapy or overly perfumed. It is a well-balanced gin with an enjoyable harmony of flavours, underlying earthiness, and a pleasing note of spice in the finish from gingery calamus root and coriander seeds. With Tonic Water, the flavours hold true with juniper, citrus and florals, and elevated grapefruit, orange and pine which combine very effectively with the bitter Tonic Water character. - Paul Jackson, 2022

Also Available from Selkirk Distillery

Bannock Gin - Buy
  • 44.5% ABV. Selkirk Gin rested with local Selkirk Bannock fruit loafs for approx 12 weeks.

Selkirk Cask Aged Gin - Buy
  • 40% ABV. Aged in an ex-whisky barrel for 4 months

Fundraising Gins - Buy
  • Selkirk Distillers produce 3 gins to raise funds for charities, including 1953 - MS Society Gin, The Thin Blue Line Gin, and Tilda’s Tipple - Brain Tumour Charity Gin (a Winner in the Contemporary Gin category of The Gin Guide Awards). Over £10,000 has been raised to date.

Meet the Makers

"We produced our first craft gin in September 2017. We believed that the Scottish Borders, with its rich history and wealth of natural resources, could produce high quality spirits. This was proven with the successful launch of Selkirk Gin. The main botanical, the gorse flower, grows wild on the rolling lowland hills of Selkirkshire and we handpick it ourselves." - Co-Founder, Allan Walker
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