Hazell and Hazell Lust garden Fine Botanicals

The Jaw, Milngavie, Glasgow G62 6HD, UK

Hazell and Hazell Lust garden Fine Botanicals

We started distilling Bardowie Gin in 2017 using botanicals from our garden beside Bardowie Loch in Scotland and quickly won appreciation including being ranked 4th overall in a blind tasting of 60 Scottish Craft Gins.

We now have four varieties of gin, all made with care for you to enjoy and we hope you love our gin as much as we do.

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Best wishes,

ALISON AND MARK HAZELL

Introducing Bardowie Loch..

We hope you enjoy our delicious citrusy gin made with botanicals we have picked from our garden on Bardowie Loch. These include bay, blackcurrants, bulrush stem and ground elder (Gardener’s revenge). Our perfect serve is over ice or with a good tonic of your choice and a garnish of freshly torn bay leaf or sliced orange/clementine.

Slainte, Mark and Alison

Hazell and Hazell Lust garden Botanicals

Hazell and Hazell Lust garden Botanicals / Bardowie Loch

The Perfect Serve..

Our perfect serve is over plenty of ice or with a tonic of your choice and a garnish of freshly torn bay leaf or sliced orange/clementine.

All our gins work well served neat over plenty ice as a liqueur

Introducing Bardowie Zest..

We hope you enjoy our delicious orange gin made with botanicals we have picked from our garden on Bardowie Loch. These include bay, blackcurrants, bulrush stem and ground elder (Gardener’s revenge). Our perfect serve is with a fresh orange twist. You could try ginger ale rather than tonic, then for the more exotic slant serve with chilli, fresh basil, or black peppercorns.

Slainte, Mark and Alison

The Perfect Serve..

Our perfect serve is over plenty of ice or with a tonic of your choice and a garnish of orange slice and a crushed sprig of rosemary.

All our gins work well served neat over plenty ice as a liqueur

Hazell and Hazell Lust garden Botanicals

Hazell and Hazell Lust garden Fine Botanicals

Introducing Bardowie Pink..

We hope you enjoy our delicious pink gin made with botanicals we have picked from our garden on Bardowie Loch. These include bay, blackcurrants, bulrush stem and ground elder (Gardener’s revenge).

Our perfect serve is over frozen lemon slices or with a good tonic with fresh raspberries or a sprig of mint. You could try lemonade rather than tonic, then for more exotic slant serve with bergamot, fresh basil, star anise, lemon thyme or coriander leaf!

Slainte, Mark and Alison

Hazell and Hazell Lust garden Fine Botanicals

The Perfect Serve..

Our perfect serve is over plenty of ice or with a tonic of your choice and a garnish of a lemon slice and a torn basil leaf. Alternatively try lemonade instead of tonic.

All our gins work well served neat over plenty ice as a liqueur

Hazell and Hazell Lust garden Fine Botanicals

Introducing Bardowie Blast..

Hazell and Hazell Lust garden Fine Botanicals

We hope you enjoy our delicious strong gin made with botanicals we have picked from our garden on Bardowie Loch. These include bay, blackcurrants, bulrush stem and ground elder (Gardener’s revenge). Our perfect serve is over plenty of ice or with a tonic of your choice and a garnish of a fresh orange twist.

Slainte, Mark and Alison

Hazell and Hazell Lust garden Fine Botanicals

The Perfect Serve..

Our perfect serve is over plenty of ice or with a tonic of your choice and a garnish of a fresh orange twist.

All our gins work well served neat over plenty ice as a liqueur

Some of our favourite cocktails!

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Gin Fizz

50ml Bardowie Loch Gin
25ml lemon juice
2 tsp sugar syrup
ice
sparkling water
Lemon Slice

How to make it.

Put the gin, lemon juice, sugar syrup and lots of ice into a cocktail shaker. If you don’t have a shaker at home, just use anything with a tight lid!
Once shaken and chilled strain into a glass of your choice, add a few splashes of sparkling water, and garnish with a slice of lemon!

Scandi Gin

50ml Bardowie Loch gin
Ice cubes
25ml aquavit
2 dashes of maraschino liqueur
1 fresh dill sprig

HOW TO MAKE IT.

Pour the gin, aquavit and liqueur into a shaker with plenty of ice and shake well.
Pour into a chilled glass and serve with a sprig of dill!

Rosemary Sgroppino

25ml Bardowie Loch Gin
25ml sweet vermouth
25ml orange juice
Sprig of rosemary

HOW TO MAKE IT.

Sit rosemary sprig and gin serving in a jar for around 5-10 minutes.
Add the gin (remove the rosemary), vermouth and orange juice into a mixer with ice and shake.
Garnish with a fresh sprig of rosemary and enjoy.

AND HERE’S TO THE START OF A VERY GOOD EVENING!…

OUR STORY

FROM BREWING TO DISTILLING

Hazell and Hazell Lust garden Fine Botanicals

In 2014 Mark was looking for a change in direction and discussed with Alison that he should follow his dream of moving his hobby of home brewing and making it into a commercial reality.

They set up a microbrewery in Glasgow in 2014 to supply craft beer to discerning local afficionados, and Jaw Brew was born. The beers were well received, and a strong trade was built up over the next couple of years with Mark and Alison attending various events to showcase Jaw Brew beer and learning a lot about the drinks trade in the process.

Lots of new gins were hitting the market and the same customers who were buying Jaw Brew were also interested in buying gin. Before long a strategy was developed to create a distinctive high quality gin appealing to their existing customer base and attracting new devotees.

The Founders

The Jaw is a 300 year old miller’s cottage on the shores of Bardowie loch where Mark and Alison Hazell moved in 1998. They had settled in with their 3 young sons having returned to their roots as Alison’s family originated in Glasgow while Mark’s were from the Western Isles.

Mark was already a keen forager and knew the flavours available around the area from gathering food for the table during dog walking forays. From an initial thirteen local botanicals, various tasting experiments pointed towards an optimum combination that would complement the standard gin ingredients to provide the gin experience of Bardowie.

Since the successful launch of Bardowie Gin, it has been highly praised and is a clear favourite for many customers in a crowded market. Awards have also been won including a Bronze in the Scottish Field Gin Awards, where the gin came fourth out of a field of over 60 in a blind tasting. The gin also won a Silver in the International Wine and Spirits Competition 2018.

Alison and Mark make the gin in small batches in a small lean-to shed adjoining the house and are in the process of constructing a new distillery building in the garden. They have just launched 3 new varieties of gin, a pink, an orange and a navy strength.

Awards

ONE OF SCOTTISH FIELD’S FAVOURITES

Obviously Scottish producers maintain that the best gin in the world is made in Scotland and Bardowie is right up in the top echelon of those, having won a Bronze Medal in its category for the first and so far only competition that Bardowie Gin has entered; it is run by the Scottish field magazine and covers most of the gins made in Scotland.

All the gins entered across the categories were ‘blind’ tasted and Bardowie Gin came in 4th overall – not bad for a product that had not yet seen its first birthday.