Red Door Highland Gin
Our classic London Dry Gin has a heart of finest juniper and bitter orange peel with deliciously complex notes of sea buckthorn, pearls of heather and rowan berries.
Red Door Gin with Autumn Botanicals
Our seasonal-edition autumn gin will coat your mouth with the mellow fruitiness of Scottish blackberries, complemented by the signature notes from our classic gin.
Red Door Gin with Summer Botanicals
Our seasonal-edition summer gin is beautifully bright with carefully selected fresh flavours of aromatic bergamot, rose petals and the sweetness of Scottish raspberries.
Red Door Gin with Winter Botanicals
Our seasonal-edition gin captures flavours reminiscent of winter with harmonised notes of warming allspice, blood orange, sultanas and hop blossom.
Discover what’s behind the Red Door
We’ve been handcrafting spirits here in the Scottish Highlands for over 120 years, with meticulous attention to detail and quality. Named after our distillery’s distinctive red doors, Red Door Gin marks a new chapter in our distillery’s long and proud history.
Discover our botanicals…
Carefully selected for a full-bodied flavour, Red Door Gin balances five core gin botanicals with the deliciously distinctive flavours of three botanicals inspired by the local landscape.
Locally-inspired botanicals
Our unique selection of three locally-inspired botanicals includes, pearls of heather, common on Scottish hillsides, rowan berries, found in local wooded areas, and sea buckthorn, growing wild in Scotland’s coastal areas.
Classic gin botanicals
Our five, classic gin botanicals (juniper berries, lemon peel, bitter orange peel, coriander seed and angelica root) create the base to a London Dry Gin with a complex palate and a lusciously long finish.
Sea Buckthorn
Locally Inspired Botanical
These tart, tangy berries have crisp, warming citrus flavours. Sea buckthorn’s aromatic flavour adds fresh, fruity top notes to Red Door Gin.
Sometimes known as ‘sea berries’, sea buckthorn can be found growing wild in Scotland’s coastal fringes.
Pearls of Heather
Locally Inspired Botanical
Heather’s flavour is subtly perfumed; it imparts deliciously delicate grassy, floral notes to Red Door Gin.
Heather is iconic across the Scottish landscape. When in bloom, heather populates the Scottish hillsides with a haze of bright purple flowers. Pearls of heather provides a uniquely Scottish twist on the traditional floral undertones from common gin botanicals such as rose petals and chamomile.
Rowan Berries
Locally Inspired Botanical
Rowan berry’s rich flavour is slightly bitter with subtle chocolatey, smoky overtones. It is one of the key elements to building Red Door’s bittersweet, full bodied flavour profile.
Rowan berries can be found in abundance in our local glens and forests.
Juniper Berries
Classic Gin Botanical
Built on a solid foundation of finest juniper berries, our signature note is punchy, piney with a fruity freshness.
Juniper is the base to all gin; the word ‘gin’ derives from the Latin juniperus, meaning juniper. Red Door Gin is classified as a London Dry Gin, meaning its signature note on both the nose and the palate must be juniper.
Bitter Orange Peel
Classic Gin Botanical
Tarter and tangier than your average gin, a burst of bitter orange peel gives Red Door Gin a deliciously distinctive citrus taste. Combined with lemon peel, bitter orange provides a delectable depth of comforting citrus flavours.
Lemon Peel
Classic Gin Botanical
Crisp and clean, lemon peel brings uplifting citrus notes to the palate. Creating a beautiful zesty balance, lemon peel provides essential contrast to the bittersweet, herbal notes of Red Door Gin.
Angelica Root
Classic Gin Botanical
Angelica root has a warm, earthy flavour with slightly bitter, herbaceous notes. It provides essential bite and a lingering aftertaste, giving Red Door Gin that lusciously long finish.
Angelica root is often regarded as the third major botanical in most gins. Its unique flavour acts as a binding agent, creating harmony between the other complex flavours of our botanicals.
Coriander Seeds
Classic Gin Botanical
Coriander seed is citrusy, nutty and slightly spicy. It delivers zesty notes that are presented towards the end of the palate, adding a delicious depth and complexity to Red Door Gin.
Peggy, hard at work
Peggy’s capacity is 500 litres & each distillation run produces the equivalent of 762 bottles of Red Door Gin.
Each batch of Red Door takes 5 ½ hours to perfect and we use just over 6.5kg of our 8 botanicals in every batch.
Peggy uses a vapour infusion distillation method- in this method, the botanicals do not come into contact with the liquid spirit at all. Instead they are placed in Peggy’s ‘botanicals basket’, encountering the spirit as vapour.
We distil at 55% ABV (this is the strength of the Grain Neutral Spirit (GNS), which is wheat based.) The spirit comes off at an average of 80% ABV which is then taken down to 45% ABV for bottling.
