1A, WEST, Hynish, Isle of Tiree PA77 6UF, Verenigd Koninkrijk
The Isle of Tyree Fine Gin on Adorable Island
ABOUT US
The Isle of Tiree – sometimes known as Tir an Eòrna (Land of Barley) in Gaelic – was once home to ‘no less than fifty distillers’ yet, unlike other islands, Tiree never re-established a distillery until more recent years.
Tiree Whisky Company Ltd was formed to preserve and promote the island’s whisky heritage, while aiming to revive distilling on the island.
The Isle of Tiree Distillery, the island’s first legal operational distillery since the 1800s, is now home to one of the smallest, most traditional whisky production operations that Scotland has to offer. Each part of the process is precisely handcrafted with a keen eye on the past but an enthusiastic vision of the future.
Alongside Isle of Tiree Single Malt Scotch Whisky and Isle of Tiree Single Grain Scotch Whisky – Rye, Tiree Whisky Company are also the producers of both Tyree Gin and Hebridean Pink Gin.
Tyree Gin
The Isle of Tiree is the farthest West of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. This fertile and remote island, famed for sunshine and stunning scenery, is surrounded by the vast Atlantic Ocean.
Awarded a Gold Award at the Spirits Business Gin Masters 2022 and a Bronze Medal at the International Wine and Spirits Competition 2022, Tyree Gin truly reflects the landscape in which it is distilled. Kelp harvested from the icy waters provides sweetness as well as coastal salty flavours and floral, grassy and vanilla notes are achieved using a range of botanicals from the machair ground inland from the shore.
Combined with juniper, water-mint and angelica, this is a fresh, pure island spirit.
Tyree was a historical form of spelling for the island while the modern spelling of Tiree first appeared on a map produced by John Cowley in 1734 and then again in a map of Scotland by John & Frederic Tallis in 1851.
The last legal distillery in Tiree ceased to operate at the beginning of the nineteenth century and our gin distillery is the first since then.
OUR BOTANICALS
Alongside the core botanicals, the predominant flavour of Tyree Gin is achieved through locally sourced botanicals: Eyebright, Ladies Bedstraw, Water Mint and Angelica collected from the island’s rich and fertile machair ground.
Machair is low-lying arable or grazing land formed near the coast by a combination of soil and sand. This type of land is unique to Scotland and makes up around a quarter of the island.
These machair botanicals together with Kelp from the wild Atlantic Ocean, combine impeccably to create a true taste of Tiree.
THE KELP HARVEST
Our Kelp is sourced from the Wild Atlantic Ocean which surrounds the Isle of Tiree.
These kelp forests are the fourth largest in Scottish waters and this abundance fuelled the island’s kelp industry.
Seaweed has been used from the earliest times as animal fodder, for medicinal use, for human consumption and as a fertiliser for hay and potatoes.
By the 18th Century, kelp was providing an income for locals who burnt it locally to produce alkalis and in 1863, a factory was built in Middleton where the seaweed was used to produce iodine. The factory, named the ‘Glassary’, closed in 1901 and some of its walls were used to build road and runway foundations in the Second World War.
Tyree was a historical form of spelling for the island while the modern spelling of Tiree first appeared on a map produced by John Cowley in 1734 and then again in a map of Scotland by John & Frederic Tallis in 1851. This historic spelling is displayed on a brass plate, which survives from the Seaweed Factory, engraved with ‘NORTH BRITISH CHEMICAL CO. LD. TYREE NO. 1’.
The name was officially changed to Tiree in 1889 to avoid confusion with Tyrie in Aberdeenshire.
Hebridean Pink Gin
Hebridean Pink Gin is distilled and bottled on the Isle of Tiree, the outermost of the Inner Hebridean islands.
Distilled using seven botanicals including juniper, raspberries, sweet peels, cinnamon and black pepper.
Once distilled, natural raspberry concentrate is added and the result is a natural, fresh contemporary gin with hard caramel sweet aromas and light juniper flavours.
Bronze Medal in the International Wine and Spirits Competition 2022
Silver Award in the Spirits Business Gin Masters 2022
Bronze Medal for Pink Gin of the Year at the Scottish Gin Awards 2022
Distillery Tour & Gin Tasting
Tour of Tiree’s first legal distillery since the 19th Century
- 1 hr1 hour
- 18.50 British pounds £18.50
- West Hynish
Service Description
Learn about Tiree’s fascinating distilling heritage, the story and process of creating Tyree Gin and Hebridean Pink Gin as well as an insight into our Single Malt and Single Grain Scotch Whisky production.
Includes a 25ml measure of Tyree Gin & Hebridean Pink Gin, enjoyed at the Distillery Shop & Visitor Centre with great views out across the Atlantic to Skerryvore Lighthouse. We respectfully ask that no children under 10 years of age take part in our Distillery Tour.
TMF Distillery Tour
Tour of Tiree’s first legal distillery since the 19th Century
- 20 British pounds£20
- West Hynish
Service Description
We’ve teamed up with John Kennedy Transport to provide a bus service to and from our distillery for Distillery Tours all weekend. Meet at the small parking area across from the Crossapol Playpark to get the bus to the distillery.
At the distillery, you will learn about Tiree’s fascinating distilling heritage, the story and process of creating Tyree Gin and Hebridean Pink Gin as well as an insight into our recently established Single Malt and Single Grain Scotch Whisky production.
The tour includes either a Tyree Gin or Hebridean Pink Gin with mixer at our Distillery Shop & Tasting Room with great views out across the Atlantic to Skerryvore Lighthouse. We respectfully ask that no children under 10 years of age take part in our Distillery Tour.
ISLE OF TIREE
The Isle of Tiree is the most westerly island of the Inner Hebrides. It is relatively small – about twelve miles long and three miles wide – and very flat. Although the island is famous for its fertility it has been described variously as ‘a raised beach’ and ‘the land below the waves’.
The island has a mild climate with some of the highest levels of sunshine recorded anywhere in the British Isles. It benefits from the moderating influence of the Gulf Stream ensuring that frost is rare and evenings in mid-summer are warm and balmy.
Tiree is also known as a windy place, with the strongest winter gales normally occurring in December and January. The advantage, however, is that midges are almost non-existent in summer.
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