Secret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace Discover On 32A Old Pentland Rd, Lothianburn, Edinburgh EH10 7EA, UK

32A Old Pentland Rd, Lothianburn, Edinburgh EH10 7EA, UK

Secret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace

OUR ROOTS

“Our garden is a haven of peace and tranquility and inspires all that we do”

Secret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace / The Garden

The Secret Garden Distillery showcases the magic of nature and the unique flavours found here. The Secret Garden itself is home to a wide range of hand-harvested botanicals which have been used in and inspired the flavours of our gins. Our Garden is the heart of our distillery. Founded on a derelict plot in 2012, the garden was transformed into a secret oasis, providing an escape from city life.

Today the family-owned distillery continues to use sustainable practices throughout its production and processes. Remaining committed to creating a premium gin that is all-natural and inspired by the distillery gardens. Home to 600 varieties of plants that we harvest on site to be included in our gins. Where providence is at the heart of everything, from seed to sip.
This is evident at every stage in the production of our gins from the way we grow, and hand harvest our botanicals to the way our gins are packaged.
Our Secret Garden gins are lovingly crafted using 100% natural ingredients to produce a natural Scottish gin.
Our garden is completely natural, we use no chemicals, pesticides, or herbicides, and use only peat-free organic compost to ensure no chemicals touch our soil and to reduce our impact on carbon emissions.

Our Garden allows us to enjoy the subtle magic that nature has to offer and provides us with the inspiration to create magical gins from “seed to sip”.

Secret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace / produceùs the finest Quality Gins

WILD GIN MADE WITH ORGANIC SPIRIT

Regular price £43.99

Secret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace / Wild Gin

100% NATURAL ORGANIC GIN

Looking for a delicious organic gin? Look no further than Secret Garden’s wild gin made with organic spirit. Made with only the finest ingredients, our organic gin in our new 70cl bespoke bottle is sure to please even the most discerning palate!

Wild plants are The Secret Garden Distillery’s passion; we encourage them to grow freely. We distill home grown Bog Myrtle, Nettle, and nine other indigenous botanicals with Organic Spirit to create this unique gin. Naturally herbaceous, this London Dry Gin at 40% ABV was made to reflect the wonders of indigenous Scottish plants. At 40% ABV we feel we get the perfect balance of flavour and aroma and a better mouthfeel.

Contains 11 Scottish botanicals
100% Natural Ingredients
No Added Sugars, Artificial Colourings & Flavourings
Hand Harvested & Dried Naturally

ORGANIC GIN FAQS –

What makes a Gin Organic?

If a gin is made with 100% natural ingredients, and is free of any synthetic chemicals, then it’s considered organic! Of course, this makes organic gin a healthier option, as well as being a much more environmentally friendly choice of drink. Organic gins also tend to have a more intense flavour, and this is due to the higher quality of ingredients being used.

So, if you’re looking for both a delicious and healthy gin option, be sure to choose organic gin!

Why is Gin the healthiest Alcohol?

For a long time, gin has often been seen as the healthy option when it comes to an alcoholic drink. There are many reasons for this. Firstly, gin is lower in calories compared to other liquors such as vodka or rum. It also doesn’t contain any carbohydrates.

Gin also contains natural botanical ingredients, which can also provide positive health benefits. For example, juniper berries (one of the main gin ingredients), are rich in antioxidants which can boost your immune system and reduce blood sugar levels.

What are the 3 key ingredients in Gin?

Juniper berries are probably the best-known ingredient in gin, but what many people don’t know is that there are actually 3 key ingredients. Coriander & Angelica Root are the 2 other main ingredients.

The Coriander in gin balances with the Juniper to help provide the citrusy, refreshing flavour that gin is so famous for. The Angelica Root on the other hand gives gin it’s characteristic crisp flavour. When combined together, these 3 ingredients create a complex and well-rounded spirit that is perfect for mixing into cocktails, and loved all over the world!

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So next time you’re enjoying your organic G&T, take a moment to appreciate the unique flavour that is created with these 3 humble ingredients. Cheers!

SECRET GARDEN WILD GIN MADE WITH ORGANIC SPIRIT – ROOTED IN NATURE

Nose: Pine and fresh herbs
Taste: There is juniper up front followed by refreshing herbaceous notes and a natural, fresh sweetness to taste
Finish: A long dry finish

Wild plants are The Secret Garden Distillery’s passion, we encourage them to grow freely. We distil home grown Bog Myrtle, Nettle and nine other indigenous botanicals with Organic Spirit to create this unique gin. Naturally herbaceous, this London Dry Gin was made to reflect the wonders of nature.

Secret Garden Gins are lovingly crafted using 100% natural ingredients. There are no added sugars, artificial colourings, flavourings or additives….just nature distilled.

The botanicals are hand-harvested and dried naturally to ensure the highest quality.

Secret Garden Gins reflect the artistry of The Secret Garden Distillery and the wonders of natures in developing beautifully crafted natural Gins.

Perfect Serve: Wild is best served with light tonic and a rosemary garnish.

Discover the magic of nature today. Please drink responsibly.

ROSE GIN Secret Garden

Regular price £43.99

Secret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace / Rose Gin

DISCOVER OUR SECRET GARDEN ROSE GIN

In our new 70cl bespoke bottle.

Nose: Potpourri
Taste: Turkish delight
Finish: Hints of brown sugar

One of the perfect gifts for gin lovers. Hand harvested Apothecary Rose petals are distilled and blended with Juniper, Coriander, Angelica Root and Winter Savory to create a gin that is reminiscent of Summer. Hints of Turkish Delight, with rich creamy brown sugar notes, make this an elegant Gin to savour at 40% ABV. At 40% ABV we feel we get the perfect balance of flavour and aroma and a better mouthfeel.

Secret Garden Gins are lovingly crafted using 100% natural ingredients. There are no added sugars, artificial colourings, flavourings or additives….just nature distilled.

100% Natural Ingredients
No Added Sugars, Artificial Colourings & Flavourings
Hand Harvested & Dried Naturally

Perfect Serve: Rose Gin is best served with light tonic and a raspberry and mint garnish.

Awards: Winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition 2018
Silver Medal, San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2018 – Silver Medal , International Wine & Spirit Competition 2022 – Silver Medal.

Discover the magic of nature today. Please drink responsibly.

ELDERFLOWER & JASMINE GIN

Regular price£43.99

Secret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace / Elderflower & Jasmine Gin

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Secret Garden Distillery’s best-selling gin in our new 70cl bespoke bottle.

Nose: Delicate and floral
Taste: Crisp dry base with strong floral notes
Finish: A fresh, floral dry finish

Our best-selling gin. Hand harvested Elderflower and Jasmine are distilled and blended with Juniper, Coriander, Angelica Root and Winter Savory to create a gin that is perfectly balanced. Naturally floral in fragrance, with hints of exotic fruits, make this a beautifully fragrant sweet Gin to enjoy.

The original formulation of our best-selling gin had a delicate pink colour derived from a mixture of petals from our Garden added after the distillation. However feedback from our customers about the colour fading over time led us to develop a crystal-clear gin at 40% ABV for our new 70cl bottle with artwork featuring both elderflowers and jasmine plants. At 40% ABV we feel we get the perfect balance of flavour and aroma and a better mouthfeel.

Our luxury premium gins feature:

100% Natural Ingredients
No Added Sugars, Artificial Colourings & Flavourings
Hand Harvested & Dried Naturally

Perfect Serve: Elderflower & Jasmine is best served with light tonic and a grapefruit garnish.

Awards: World Gin Awards – Contemporary Style Gin Bronze Medal 2022, International Wine & Spirits Competition – Bronze Medal 2022.

LEMON VERBENA GIN

Regular price £43.99

Secret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace / Lemon Verbena Gin

DISCOVER OUR LEMON VERBENA GIN

In our new 70cl bespoke bottle with unique artwork of the key ingredient: lemon verbena harvested from our Garden.

Nose: Fresh citrus
Taste: Refreshingly citrus
Finish: Hints of lemon sherbet

Hand-harvested Lemon Verbena, lemon Melissa and lemon thyme are distilled and blended with Juniper, Coriander, Angelica Root, and Winter Savory to create a gin that is naturally fresh in fragrance. Now in 40% ABV strength, its zesty, citrus notes with hints of lemon sherbet, make this a refreshing Gin to enjoy. At 40% ABV we feel we get the perfect balance of flavour and aroma and a better mouthfeel.

Fresh & Zesty Flavour
100% Natural Ingredients
No Added Sugars, Artificial Colourings & Flavourings
Hand Harvested & Dried Naturally

Secret Garden Luxury Gins reflect the artistry of The Secret Garden Distillery and the wonders of nature in developing beautifully crafted natural Gins.

Perfect Serve: Lemon Verbena is best served with light tonic and a lemon garnish.

Awards: World Gin Awards – Signature Botanical Country Winner 2022
Winner of San Francisco World Spirits Competition – Gold Medal 2021

LAVENDER GIN

Regular price£43.99

Secret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace / Lavender Gin

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This is a new formulation of our purple Lavender & Echinacea Gin – a crystal-clear spirit imbued with the delicate aroma and taste of lavender in our new 70cl bespoke bottle

Nose: Soft lavender, woody pine needles
Taste: Floral and reminiscent of peach sweet tea
Finish: Dry, warming and soothing

Dried lavender is added to the still with the botanicals that create our base gin. The distillate has these soft lavender overtones in a crystal-clear liquid which is perfect at 40% ABV.

The original recipe used distilled waters made of lavender and echinacea blended with our base gin. Petals to provide colour were then added. The petals that provide the colour are rich in natural anthocynanins. These are responsible for the blue, violet and red pigments we see in the natural world.

When you added a tonic or any other fizzy soda to the original gin it changed the pH and so the anthocyanin changes from purple to pink! However after feedback from our customers about the colour fading over time we took the opportunity with the launch of our new bottle to develop a new recipe without colour and we are very pleased with the result. At 40% ABV we feel we get the perfect balance of flavour and aroma and a better mouthfeel.

Remember – all our premium gins feature:

100% Natural Ingredients
No Added Sugars, Artificial Colourings & Flavourings
Hand Harvested & Dried Naturally

Perfect Serve: Lavender Gin is best served with light tonic and a lime garnish.

Please drink responsibly.

SUMMER GIN

Regular price £43.99

Secret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace / Summer Gin

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Our Summer Gins are part of the Secret Garden Distillery’s Seasonal range, designed to capture the essence of the season, exploring flavours, scents and seasonal plants. 2023’s formulation was so popular celebrating all things summer that we have commissioned artwork for our new 70cl bottle to launch the Summer gin.

We were inspired by all the blossom in our Garden and Glasshouse This beautiful gin is a London Dry and reflects the merging of our Scottish and Australian heritage under our new owners. The alchemy of blossom combined with tropical fruits, lemons and limes inspired by our Aussie home infused with our base gin has been the inspiration for this new luxury gin. Described as an explosion of flavour and aromas this is ready-made magic for a refreshing gin and tonic this summer. Perfect for the gin-lover in your life.

At 40% ABV we feel we get the perfect balance of flavour and aroma and a better mouthfeel. And remember there are no added sugars, artificial colourings, flavourings or additives….just nature distilled.

Our perfect serve for this is a light tonic with a slice of lime.

OUR DISTILLERY GARDEN

At the Secret Garden Distillery, we grow over 600 different varieties of herbs and plants that we are hugely passionate about. They are all grown and nurtured by us. Happy, healthy, and ready to find a new home. All of our talented gardeners are highly knowledgeable when it comes to the herbs we grow and their needs so if you find yourself overwhelmed by our selection, please ask one of our friendly team, they are always happy to help.

Secret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace / Our planting

From a derelict plot outside Edinburgh in 2012 a green oasis has been created that allows us to enjoy the subtle magic that nature has to offer and provides us with the inspiration to create magical gins from “seed to sip”.

SUSTAINABILITY

“Everything in nature is about balance and we believe that everything we do should try to reflect that balance”

Nature is at the heart of everything we do, from the way we grow our plants and hand harvest our botanicals to the way our gins are packaged. For us, being ‘sustainable’ isn’t just using less plastic and recycling where possible, although that is important, it really means working hand in hand with nature, a relationship that should be based on give and take. It is all about balance, and the collective outcome of that balance is sustainability.

As a Distillery Garden we specialise in our gin botanicals and flowers that we use for colouring our gins as well as native wild plants, all of which benefit nature. Our range of gins, honey and herbal teas follow the same ethos and are a celebration of all things wild.

In 2023, we received LACER funding from Midlothian Council to help us connect our onsite borehole to the rest of the site providing us with a sustainable source of water for the Garden and for the Distillery helping to reduce our carbon-footprint. We are always looking to improve our carbon-footprint and we are not perfect yet but we strive every day to be better. We are working with Climate Springboard and RBS to help us develop our Carbon Planner so we can measure how the changes we are making drive down our carbon footprint. Our short-term aim is to be Carbon-zero before 2025 but our longer-term goal is to be Carbon Negative by 2030.

To this end we have created an entire business that revolves around the health of the earth because although we are a distillery, café, and shop, most importantly we are a Garden, one that is truly rooted in nature.

OUR GARDEN

Secret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace / Completely natural without chemicals

Our garden is completely natural, we use no chemicals, pesticides, or herbicides. It is created in a way so that it is sustainable as well as self-sufficient, this is also known as permaculture.

Our plants are hand-harvested, there is no machinery in the process, helping to reduce our carbon footprint. When soil is ploughed, it breaks up and releases the trapped carbon, therefore we limit digging in our gardens, which means, not only are we keeping the trapped carbon in the soil, but we are also actually capturing more.

We only use organic compost to ensure no chemicals touch our soil. In the garden, we limit our plastic consumption to only using recyclable plastic pots and offering discounts when these are returned. We have planted trees and juniper as hedging and allow wild corridors between the cultivated areas of the garden to encourage wildlife, carbon capture and soil health.

OUR BEES

Secret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace

Since the start of our journey in 2012, we have always had bees at the Garden and our 6 hives produce fragrant and pesticide-free honey which we use in some of our gins and sell some in our Shop.

Most importantly though, we garden specifically for our bees well-being. We keep wild corridors in our garden, where the grass isn’t obsessively cut and ‘weeds’ can prosper and grow.

We embrace these wild botanicals (weeds), such as the dandelion, not only for its beautiful sunny face that floods our lawns in Spring, but most importantly because it’s an early and critical source of pollen that is a life saver for the bees. We even use these wild plants in some of our gins and our Wild Gin celebrates this heritage.

OUR PRODUCTS & PRODUCTION

mSecret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace / Our Label

Our labels are made with 30% grass and 70% virgin pulp. This material is manufactured without the use of any chemicals, so compared to normal labels, ours require 97% less energy and 99% less water to be produced. This results in CO2 savings of around 20%.

We use viscose shrink bands to seal our bottles because they are biodegradable. All our shipping materials only consist of paper which is completely recyclable.

HOW WE MAKE OUR GIN

“I graduated in Brewing & Distilling from Heriot-Watt University in June 2018 and have working at The Secret Garden Distillery ever since. Both the stills arrived the day I did, and we’ve got to know each other pretty well over the last three years!” – Mark Boswell, Head Distiller

sSecret Garden Gin Heavenly Peace / Always tasting the Quality

Our gins all have the same botanic ingredients in their base: juniper berries, of course; coriander seeds to give an earthy, aromatic even slightly sweet quality; winter savory leaf which gives a herbal, peppery note; and Angelica root which acts as a binding agent for other botanicals which gives each gin it’s own unique aroma and flavour profile. Together: a seed; a leaf; a berry; and a root provide the perfect canvas for every gin we produce. Gins that are truly rooted in nature.

The gin-making process begins with putting ethanol into our still and then adding juniper berries into the liquid. Our other base botanicals: dried winter savory leaves and crushed coriander seeds and Angelica Root are added to a muslin bag suspended inside the still and vapour-infused to produce our base gin. Depending on the recipe, most of the additional botanicals are added at this stage too. Our garden contains a wonderous variety of plants allowing us to experiment with new flavours and colours. It can take a few tweaks to get a recipe right; once it’s locked down to our satisfaction, distillation can properly begin.

The spirit comes out at around 79% abv and is slowly diluted to the required strength using water and constant agitation. In the case of our Secret Garden Apothecary Rose Gin, we add dried rose petals to the base to infuse with colour and a subtle flavour, then separately distil the petals and add them to the mix as distilled waters for additional flavour. A London Dry style such as our Wild gin has nothing added after distillation; all botanicals are in the still from the beginning.

Once distillation and the infusion are complete, our panel of tasters will check for colour, aroma and flavour. Once the gin has been approved, it is transferred to the production team in the warehouse for bottling, labelling and shipping.