Stockclose Farm, Marlborough SN8 2NN, UK
Ramsbury Gin Extraordinary Taste
Ramsbury Gin Extraordinary Taste
Extraordinary taste
Welcome to a world where you’re always home. A world of exploration, where passion triumphs and taste comes first. Where a bad drink is unforgivable. And a great one is a stir away.
Our recipe for extraordinary flavour is simple: farmer’s intuition, forward-thinking technology, and a stubborn passion for getting things right. Ramsbury spirits aren’t the fastest, easiest or most convenient to make. But we’re proud of that. Because good things take time. And good things are worth waiting for.
In our eyes, the journey to mastery is always a worthy pursuit. Whether you’re finessing a long monologue or a great gin, the spring in the step belongs only to you. And as long as you’re true to yourself, you’re never out of place.
Gin worth waiting for
Beautiful gin in a beautiful bottle. Crafted lovingly over a year of precision, our London Dry Gin nods to the classic elements of dry gin while bringing a fresh, floral twist. Pour, stir, sip. Sigh with content. Mission accomplished.
Ramsbury Gin Extraordinary Taste
Single estate, endless flavour
We craft our spirits from start to finish. That way, we can monitor each step of the process with the attention of a master conductor.
We’re farmers first: we sow, we grow, we waste nothing. Our gin is first born as winter wheat on our fields. We distil it through our 43-plate copper still, creating a delicious base spirit with a silky smooth texture. We redistill it with a careful selection of botanicals, including classing juniper, fragrant grapefruit and our very own quince. The result? A passionate spirit layered with delicate flavour.
Ramsbury Gin is one of the few Single Estate Gins made in the UK. Speaking subjectively, it’s also the most delicious one. Don’t take our word for it, though. Sip and savour to become a believer.
Ramsbury Gin Extraordinary Taste
Tasting Notes
Our gin (or now, your gin) begins its journey with notes of classic juniper, which infuses with quince, citrus, woody angelica, bitter almond and spicy cinnamon. You’ll experience a complex, rich flavour with a balanced aroma.
The beauty of the details
Our bottles are lovely, but they’re also an homage to our estate. To a way of doing things that make sense and protects our land. To our environmentally conscious process. Each bottle is marked with coordinates, so you can picture the ancient Wiltshire countryside as you sip, and look up the exact field where your bottle was born.
The coordinates are also functional. You can visit our farm and distillery on a tour, or put your academic hat on at our gin school. Don’t worry, there’s no quiz.
Ramsbury Gin Extraordinary Taste
Single Estate Gin in action
Ramsbury cocktails
Estate Elderflower Collins
Add all ingredients plus cubed ice to a jug. Top up with soda water.
Ingredients
To serve 10 people
500ml Ramsbury Single Estate Gin
250ml Elderflower liqueur
200ml Lemon juice
10 Cucumber strips
20 Mint leaves
Soda water
Garnish
Cucumber strips and mint leaves
Clover Club
Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice, shake hard. Double strain into a chilled glass. Garnish with 3 raspberries.
Ingredients
50ml Ramsbury Single Estate Gin
5 fresh Raspberries
10ml Raspberry Liqueur
10ml Sugar Syrup
15ml Lemon juice
15ml Aquafaba
Garnish
3 Raspberries
Gimlet
Place a Nick and Nora glass in the fridge. Add all ingredients in to a mixing jug with lots of ice cubes. Stir, until cold. Strain the mixture into your chilled glass.
Ingredients
50ml Ramsbury Single Estate Gin
20ml Roses lime cordial
5ml Sugar syrup
5ml Lime juice
5ml Lemon juice
In the spotlight
If we had our way, our gins would win prizes on the daily. Thankfully, these experts think so too:
The Beverage Tasting Institute of Chicago awarded our gin a gold medal and 92 points (2024 and 2023).
The London Spirits Competition awarded the gin a gold medal and 93 points (2024).
The International Wine and Spirits Competition and the San Francisco World Spirits Competition awarded us silver medals (2023).
Keen to experience our gin for yourself?
About us
Hello. We’re Ramsbury. We make smooth, creamy vodka and crisp, full-bodied gin in the heart of Wiltshire.
Dare to be delighted
The road to mastery is always a great one. What’s our specialty, you ask? Precision. Technology. Elegance. The result? Gin and vodka that make you sing with delight.
Single estate, endless flavour
What does it mean to be single estate? It means that we make everything we possibly can from scratch on the Ramsbury Estate. From grain to glass, seed to spirit.
The estate allows us to continue our farming roots, but it also enables us to do things in the most sustainable way that we can. Our aim is to reduce our waste and the impact we have on the surrounding nature.
You’d be very welcome to come visit, if you like. It’s very pretty here. You can discover our farm, tour our brewery and distillery, or visit our pub, the Bell at Ramsbury. You can learn more about our produce, visit on a free educational conservation trip, or make your very own gin at our gin school. You can even throw a fabulous party in our event space, right on site where the magic happens.
How It All Works
At Ramsbury we practice environmental conscious farming. We use the perfect blend of tradition and innovation to produce spirits with the highest quality and the lowest environmental impact.
Our copper stills use the steam generated by a bio-mass boiler fed by our own sustainable woodland. Once the distilling is complete, the spent grains are fed to the animals on the farms. The wastewater is cleaned by a wildlife-friendly reed bed system, which then feeds into our lake.
Commitment to sustainability
Across everything we do, our aim is to be big on flavour and small on the environment.
We’re farmers first, and we live by the farmer’s philosophy. We re-use, re-fill, recycle. We learn, share, refine. That’s the farmer’s way.
We do our very best to do things the right way wherever we can. We use solar energy, which you can monitor in real time. Our biomass boiler is fed by our own sustainable woodlands. The quince in our gins is from our very own quince bushes. Our livestock are fed protein-packed spent brewer’s grains. Our wastewater is cleaned by a wildlife-friendly reed bed system. We use recyclable materials wherever we can.
We don’t do it for praise or acclaim, which is why we don’t talk about it that much. We do it because that’s the way it should be done.
Sustainability at Ramsbury
Big on flavour, small on the environment.
We’re not just producers of quality spirits. We’re farmers first, with traceability and sustainability at the heart of our operation. Above all, we’re driven by our belief to do no harm, grow everything and waste nothing. Looking after our land has always been important to us. We don’t talk about it much, because we believe that being environmentally conscious is just the right way to do things. As custodians of old land, we know first-hand that nature gives you what you put in. We work in harmony with the environment, always restoring what we take to maintain a healthy loop.
The team behind Ramsbury Gin and Vodka see themselves not just as producers of quality spirits, but as custodians of the land, driven by the motto “grow everything, waste nothing”.
What does that look like, you ask?
● We sow and grow 100 per cent of our wheat ourselves.
● We use water sourced from our estate to create spirits.
● We have an impressive closed loop system (if we say so ourselves), where waste products are reused and not a grain is wasted.
● We capture and store excess energy.
● The ash from our boiler is reused as fertiliser on the land.
● We add homegrown botanicals (shout out to our quince bushes) to give our gin its distinctive flavour.
Step 1
Growing the wheat
Production of our single estate gin and vodka begins with specially selected Winter wheat grown on our own land, which will in turn become the grain used to make the spirits. “Because we use all our own products in the production process, we are able to produce very high quality, smooth vodka and gin using our carefully selected wheat and very pure chalk-filtered water,” explains group manager Alistair Ewing. The wheat, grown on land fertilised using manure from the estate’s own cattle, is carefully harvested by the farmers on the ideal day destined to produce the finest end product.
Step 2
Milling the grain
Once harvested, the grain from the wheat is placed in ten-tonne silos, then goes into the estate’s milling shed, which is right next to the on-site distillery. Here it is hammer milled into a grist, or rough flour.
Step 3
Mashing
Next the flour goes into the 3000-litre mash tun where it is mixed with water. Signalling the vision of sustainability behind Ramsbury Single Estate Spirits, the water used throughout the process is sourced from an ancient aquifer 195 metres down. This is purified through UV filtration.
It’s then step-heated from 52 degrees Celsius to 62 degrees Celsius in order to break down the starch and convert it into sugars for the distilling process.
Once the starch conversion to sugar is finished the mash is cooled down to about 30 degrees. Yeast is added and then it goes into 7000-litre fermentation vessels. The yeast starts working on the sugar and turns it into alcohol, which takes about three to five days.
Step 4
The ‘beer stripper’
The mash is now ready for the first part of the distilling process. It goes into the top of the beer stripper, which separates the alcohol from the water by heating it to 103 degrees. The “low wine” alcohol produced, which is 80 to 85 per cent ABV, evaporates off and is collected in a condenser.
This whole process takes about seven to eight hours. Meanwhile the water and solid travel down the column but not a bit of this is wasted: high in protein, it will eventually be used to feed the estate’s highland cattle – meat from which appears on the menu at Ramsbury’s own pub and restaurant, The Bell, in Ramsbury village.
Step 5
The Pot still
The low wine is diluted to 35 per cent using water from the estate’s 195 metre-deep borehole, and then heated again in the pot still where the alcohol will evaporate.
Step 6
The Rectification Column
The 1,600-litre pot still is connected to the rectification column and the alcohol vapour rises up in two towers. The column has 43 copper distillation plates, which have a role in helping remove undesirable compounds. It will stay in here for around eight hours to be distilled into stronger alcohol.
Finally, it will go through a stainless steel demethylising tower to remove any impurities left behind to produce a 96 per cent ABV base alcohol – this is the natural grain spirit used in Ramsbury Vodka and Gin. And it is at this point that production for the vodka and gin separates.
Step 7
Adding the botanicals
To make Ramsbury Gin, fourteen botanicals are now added to the spirit to give the drink its unique flavour. These must first be steeped in the base spirit for 12 hours. Classic juniper, coriander, angelica root, orris root, cardamom, hops, bitter almond, liquorice, cinnamon, grains of paradise, orange, lemon and grapefruit. Most important of all is the fresh quince, which is picked from the estate’s own orchard. This completes a blend of botanicals that serves up a modern twist on a classic London dry gin.
The fresh quince…
The quince, sourced from the estate, adds something rather special to Ramsbury Gin according to global brand ambassador Mikul Kalyan: “This unique botanical in our drink is grown on our estate right next to the distillery, which is why we can add it fresh.
Quince has a long history within Britain, with cultivation dating back to 1275; all the more reason to use quince in Ramsbury Gin, due to its distinctive aroma and taste, as well as the history it holds.When added to the gin quince provides a delightful surprise, with an aromatic kind of flavour. It helps give our gin hint of sweetness and a floral aroma that is fantastic on the palate.”
Step 8
Gin distilling and bottling
The mixture is now re-distilled in a 450-litre gin still giving an 80 per cent gin concentrate. This is then blended to 40 per cent using water from the estate.
Once the production process is complete, the gin and vodka are bottled using recyclable glass and labelled on site. From milling to bottling takes around 12 days of expert craft and care.
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