The Botanist Islay Dry Gin

Wild. Foraged. Distilled Conceived, distilled and hand crafted at Bruichladdich Distillery, THE BOTANIST is the first and only gin from the wild Hebridean Island of Islay. Built be the Harvey brothers in 1881, the distillery faced many challenges throughout the years. But in 2000, a private consortium of investors purchased the semi-derelict distillery. This group of visionaries saw Bruichladdich not as an outdated, inefficient throwback in desperate need of modernisation, but as a remarkable opportunity to make whisky the traditional way. In a serendipitous moment, they persuaded the world-renowned distiller Jim McEwan to join them in what they were to later describe as “a white-knuckle ride.” Brash, noisy, combative and controversial, Bruichladdich looked and sounded very different to the traditional whisky company. The birth of Jim’s idea for an Islay gin was then protracted. The Botanist was then distilled in 2011 for the first time.