Smugglers Spirits is an Edinburgh spirits brand inspired by the city’s colourful smuggling history. Edinburgh cocktail bar Cask Smugglers launched the brand to create carefully crafted, small-batch spirits with innovative botanicals that excite the palate and the senses.
The Smugglers award-winning range of gins are created with the passion of smugglers of old, but embrace modern values. Their gins use hand-harvested botanicals that grow naturally at the foot of the Pentland Hills, drawing together the calm tranquillity of nature in harmony with the thrills of Edinburgh’s exciting urban night-life and rich history.
Smugglers Spirits are made for cocktails, and the gins are star ingredients in many exquisite creations by Cask Smugglers’ team of experienced bartenders and mixologists.
Smugglers Gin is distilled using a number of classic gin botanicals and Scots lovage, lemon verbena and lemon balm to create a dry gin with a crisp, citrus finish. Underpinned with juniper and notes of zesty, clean citrus, this gin works well as a classic gin and tonic or in a understated Martini cocktail, letting the full citrus flavours of Smugglers Gin shine through.
Key Botanical(s): Scots Lovage, Lemon Balm, Lemon Verbena
Gin Style: Distilled
Strength: 40% vol
Goes great with: A twist of lemon, tonic and ice.
Old Sins Gin is a Navy Strength with plenty of kick, but it remains beautifully balanced. The gin is brimming with fragrant botanicals and the daring flavour of Opium Poppy contributes to a timeless taste that encapsulates feelings of excitement and exhilaration. This gin is naturally colour-changing when mixed. Old Sins Gin pairs excellently with premium tonic and has endless possibilities for mixology experimentation.
Key Botanical(s): Opium Poppy, Scots Lovage, Lemon Verbena
Gin Style: Navy Strength
Strength: 57.5% vol
Goes great with: A wedge of orange, ginger beer and ice.
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