Hepple Gin unique character of Grateful home

The Old Coach House Hepple Whitefield, Morpeth Northumberland, NE65 7LN

Welcome to Hepple!

Located within the eastern edge of Northumberland National Park, our estate and distillery are where England’s cleanest waters, most ancient juniper, and wildest winds meet.

Hepple’s rugged beauty reaches up along its hills through vast moors of heather and grasslands, down alongside old stone walls to babbling brooks and towering pine forests, ending at an old, small stone farmhouse that we’ve turned into our distillery.

Wild ponies, Highland cows, and famed black-haired pigs roam the estate, churning up hardened soil so that wild seeds can take hold.

Introduced as part of our Wilding Programme – a natural regeneration aiming to bring back and conserve the wild plants that were once so distinctive to this place – we are committed to preserving the unique character of our home, both within the landscape and our liquids, through our environmental and sustainability goals.

You don’t need to travel to the stunning vistas of Hepple to enjoy it – a sip of gin will take you there, as if you’re harvesting the botanicals with us. Thanks to our unique Triple Distillation Method (and a distillery full of modern distilling equipment) we’re able to capture flavours that traditional distilling would destroy.

We’ve brought our expertise as a celebrated foraging chef, a legendary bartender, a precision distiller, and an ecologically-minded farmer to bring you some of the best liquids on the market to add to your spirits cabinets. Celebrate your cocktails with a taste of Hepple.

Happy Heppleing,

Val, Nick, Chris & Walter

Hepple Gin 70cl

Regular price £39.50

A modern take on a classic gin, let the refreshing flavours of intense green juniper, bright Douglas fir, and savoury lovage, bog myrtle, and blackcurrant leaves transport you to our moors in one of England’s last wild sanctuaries.

Elegant and intense, Hepple Gin elevates classic cocktails to the next level with ease, with even its most delicate notes able to cut through big flavours from other mixers. Martinis, negronis, gin and tonics, and gimlets all stand out in the crowd with Hepple.

INTENSE | BOLD | BRIGHT | COMPLEX

45% VOL

Our Home

With over 4000 acres of remote land to explore, Hepple hosts rich biodiversity that lends to our botanicals offering some of the best flavours out there.

We have the cleanest waters in England to nourish our plants, with babbling brooks feeding into tranquil ponds surrounded by lovage and blackcurrants. Gusting winds force our bog myrtle and Douglas firs to root deep into the earth to take hold, while wild horses, cows, pigs and stags churn up the ground so that our juniper trees can take root. Over a fifth of juniper found in Northumberland National Park resides in Hepple, which we exclusively harvest.

As our distillery is on our estate, the botanicals we harvest are fresh and picked at their prime, ensuring that the flavours and aromas of Hepple fill every bottle we produce.

The Hepple Juniper Trust

To ensure that we return the land back to its past glory, the Hepple Juniper Trust was set up to help replenish the UK’s juniper trees. Support by the National Park and Natural England, we’ve planted over 600 juniper trees, growing towards our long-term target of having 2000 trees planted, so that we’ll have plenty of juniper (and gin!) for generations to
come.

Every year participants of the Trust plant their juniper saplings before naming and geotagging them. The newly planted trees stand alongside some of our ancient juniper groves. Gender for the juniper isn’t revealed until the trees are 15 years old, which is when we find out how many females we have to start producing berries.

BOTANICALS

Green juniper, Macedonian juniper, Douglas fir, blackcurrant leaves, blackcurrants, lovage, Amalfi lemon, coriander seeds, fennel seeds, orris root, liquorice, angelica

TASTING NOTES

We use a combination of botanicals from our home, as well as from around the world, to bring you the freshest, most complex flavours in your spirits.

From our own backyard we harvest green juniper berries for an elegant and refreshing green bitterness, as well as woody notes of cedar and sandalwood.

The bright, tropical zest in our gin comes from our Douglas fir needles; clean sour notes come from our blackcurrant leaves, and bog myrtle is wonderfully savoury with almost bubble-gum notes. Finally, lovage brings a complex savouriness that cross celery and curry leaves.

To balance out the rich characteristics of our Hepple botanicals, we also include fresh Amalfi lemon peel, ripe Macedonian juniper berries, blackcurrants, coriander seeds, fennel seeds, orris root, liquorice and angelica root.

HOW TO SERVE

The elegance and complexity means that you can explore all kinds of different cocktails with Hepple Gin, but we’re always a fan of starting off by giving new life to old classics.

Delicious with a splash of tonic and a wedge of lemon, punchy in a negroni, and unbeatable in a martini, you’re spoiled for choice of what to sample next with this gin. We’ve shared a few recipes below in our Featured Cocktails section to start you off, but we can’t wait to see what you try next.

Featured Cocktails

Hepple MartiniOne of our favourite serves.
Hepple Nettle GimletForaged nettles bring a unique herbal touch to this Hepple Gin gimlet.
Southside CollinsA thirst-quenching combination of Hepple Gin, apple, mint, and lime.

Process

Our unique Triple Technique was pioneered to preserve the character of our home, through our botanicals, so that the flavours and aromas at the time of their harvest are what you’re experiencing in every bottle of Hepple.

For our Hepple Gin, we begin our distillation method here, in a process traditionally used to create a ‘one-shot’ London Dry-style gin, in order to capture a rich, creamy smoothness in our spirits.

Next we take our Douglas fir needles and our green juniper berries and distil them in a glass vacuum, lowering the boiling point to 40C, so that we’re able to preserve delicate, fresh flavours that would normally be destroyed. Many of the bright, zesty fresh notes of our Hepple Gin come from this process.

Finally, our supercritical extractor brings a depth of flavour, particularly from our juniper, to our final product. Putting the juniper berries under intense pressure (at which point molecules hit a supercritical state of being both a liquid and a gas simultaneously), we get our Gin’s signature intense and elegant hit of cedar, sandalwood, and green bitterness.

Pairs Well With

Hepple Sloe & Hawthorn Gin

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Wander the hills and hedgerows of Hepple with an incredibly round, distinctive spirit that is perfectly balanced: elegantly dry from the addition of hawthorn, satisfyingly fresh from juniper, with big, juicy notes of almond and sour cherries and a peppery finish thanks to the gin resting on sloe berries for over nine months.

Not just for Christmas: the complex flavours from our Hepple Sloe & Hawthorn Gin stand out amazingly in lemon-based serves, bitter serves that need a rounding component, or alongside sherries.

ELEGANT | JUICY | BRIGHT | PEPPERY

29.9% VOL | 500 ML

Hepple Sloe & Hawthorn Gin

Hepple Gin unique character of Grateful home

BOTANICALS

Sloe berries, hawthorn berries, Macedonian and Bulgarian juniper berries, coriander, angelica, orris root, liquorice root, fresh Amalfi lemon peel, fennel seeds, Douglas fir, bog myrtle, blackcurrant leaf, blackcurrants, cloves, black pepper, bay leaves.

TASTING NOTES

We use a combination of botanicals from our home, as well as from around the world, to bring you the freshest, most complex flavours in your spirits. Sloe and hawthorn berries bring you big, juicy sour cherry flavours, alongside distinctively dry notes. Juniper berries bring in an elegant and refreshing bitterness, as well as woody notes of cedar and sandalwood.

The bright, tropical zest in our gin comes from our Douglas fir needles; clean sour notes come from our blackcurrant leaves, and bog myrtle is wonderfully savoury with almost bubble-gum notes. Finally, bay leaves, cloves and black pepper offer up a spicy finish with every sip.

We reign in these big flavours with fresh Amalfi lemon peel, blackcurrants, coriander seeds, fennel seeds, orris root, liquorice and angelica root.

HOW TO SERVE

The juicy yet dry notes from our Sloe & Hawthorn Gin bring intense flavours to your favourite classic cocktails, or are delicious sipped neat, preferably surrounded by the rugged outdoors.

Delicious with a splash of tonic and a wedge of orange, it also adds complexity to your negroni and espresso martini, and Nick, one of our cofounders, insists on his favourite way to serve: Sloe and Guinness.

We’ve shared a few recipes below in our Featured Cocktails section to start you off, but we can’t wait to see what you try next.

Process

We rest sloe and hawthorn berries on our gin for over nine months, maximising the juicy, dry and peppery notes we extract from the berries. We then add in a small amount of sugar to round out its mouthfeel, without overpowering its elegantly dry flavour.

Our unique Triple Distillation Method was pioneered to preserve the character of our home, through our botanicals, so that the flavours and aromas at the time of their harvest are what you’re experiencing in every bottle of Hepple.

For our Sloe & Hawthorn Gin, we begin our distillation method using a process traditionally used to create a ‘one-shot’ London Dry-style gin, in order to capture a rich, creamy smoothness in our spirits.

Next we take our bay leaves, cloves, and black pepper and distil them in a glass vacuum, lowering the boiling point to 40C, so that we’re able to preserve complex, fresh flavours that would normally be destroyed. You can particularly taste this part of the process in the finish of Hepple Sloe & Hawthorn Gin.

Finally, our supercritical extractor brings a depth of flavour to the juniper we add here. Putting the juniper berries under intense pressure (at which point molecules hit a supercritical state of being both a liquid and a gas simultaneously), we get our Gin’s signature intense and elegant hit of cedar, sandalwood, and bitterness.

Douglas Fir Sherbet

A fresh breeze from the wild Hepple woods, our Douglas Fir Sherbet is a hit of Hepple for your cocktail glass. Sophisticated and elegant, our Sherbet elevates your serves with ease.

We harvest big, fresh, tropical flavours from our Douglas fir trees overlooking the Scottish border to bring you flavours that transports you (and your cocktail) to our misty ancient pine forests…with a Piña Colada in hand.

A tangy rimmed-garnish for your G&Ts, Douglas Fir Vodka and tonics, and a range of cocktails from sours to your cosmopolitans, this is an easy way to bring the refreshing flavours of the wild pine forests to your drinks.

Douglas Fir Sherbet Regular price £12.50

Tastemakers

“The best martini gin I’ve ever tasted.”

– Victoria Moore, The Telegraph

“The resulting gin is seriously good. It’s got a super silky
texture that’s perfect for a martini with a zesty citrus taste, plus intense herbal notes that remind me of walking on those rugged moors.”

– Delicious Magazine