Elgin distiller in the pink
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AN AWARD-WINNING Speyside distillery will launch its new gin brand at the prestigious Royal Highland Show this year.
Last year saw Moray Distillery, home to Avva Scottish Gin and Berry Good Liqueurs, win first prize in Scotland’s Larder Live at the event. The company will use this year's show as a launchpad for its new Avva Pink Scottish Gin.
Moray Distillery was founded by Jill Brown in 2016. The company produces a range of distilled gins and liqueurs with the focus on provenance and authentic, small-batch production featuring local botanicals and fruits. Its locally foraged botanicals are rowan, red clover, mint, dandelion and nettle.
It owns and operates the UK’s first Scottish-made gin still – lovingly named Jessie-Jean.
The brand's label design was inspired by the rose and arched windows of nearby Elgin Cathedral.
Hundreds of thousands of visitors flock to the four-day Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh to see the very best of food, farming and rural life. The show will run from June 20-23 this year.
Ms Brown said: "Every year we aim to have something new for our customers at the Royal Highland Show. It is such a fantastic event and we were absolutely ecstatic to have won a much sought after red ticket from the 2018 event.
"For the past six to eight months we’ve been working really hard to perfect our recipe and have again used local fruit from Wester Hardmuir fruit farm, at Nairn, to create our Pink Scottish Gin."
