Persie Distillery Zesty Citrus Gin – Fruity Gin Made from Hand-Zested Limes & Oranges – Award Winning Scottish Distillery Craft Gin – 50cl 42% ABV

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As the name suggests, it is bright, vibrant, and bursting with lively citrus notes, providing a refreshing and uplifting drinking experience. The visitor centre offers three great tours: a Gin Discovery tour, Gin Connoisseur tour and the Gin Making tour. At the end of the experience, visitors will fill, label and name their unique creation to take home and enjoy in a branded Darnley’s gift bag. Guided tastings are available from April until September on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 12pm.

From the capital to the Highlands and Islands - including big names and small, craft distilleries - you may be able to visit your favourite brand and buy a bottle after a tour.They also have a Simmer gin, which is inspired by the Shetland skies and summer twilight and features notes of orange and liquorice, and have created limited edition spirits such as one for the Up Helly Aa Festival. Like the breed, this is traditional, soft in the mouth and warming (made with juniper and eucalyptus).

Owned by Ian Macleod Distillers, Edinburgh Gin has been a favourite of many for a few years now, and has both a visitor centre and distillery on Rutland Place and a distillery at the Biscuit Factory in Leith. Pour over ice or top with Prosecco, or even in a long drink with soda. Garnish with fresh mint or a strawberry. Or greedy people have been known to pour it over pancakes! There is a wide range of diverse distilleries and breweries in the Cairngorms National Park so it depends which is your favourite to drink. It’s not just whisky, either; there’s been a huge growth in Scottish gins recently and you’ll find distilleries like Balmenach (the home of Caorunn gin) and Persie also do gin tours and tastings now too. Aviemore also has its own brewery, Cairngorm Brewery which produces traditional beers such as Wild Cat and Stag.It’s strange how the advice to drink eight glasses of water a day seems impossible to achieve – but six glasses of gin at a tasting? That goes down like a chubby kid on a see-saw.” Take a trip to Glenshee After tasting some of Tennent's products, including exclusive brews, visitors will take a short trip to the distillery where a tour and guided tasting of Makar Gin and single malt awaits. Simon worked as a consultant for Johnnie Walker and always knew he wanted to run his own distillery,” explains Chrissie. Several varieties of the boozy tipple are available, including a series of dog-themed gins – Labrador, Spaniel and Dachshund, plus a cross-breed gin called Dog Days.

Our Dachshund expression is a lime gin liqueur, made using freshly pressed limes with fruit left over from our award-winning Zesty Citrus Gin. What makes the gin spicy is the use of mace and cinnamon as dominant botanicals. The gentle finish is down to bay leave

Not just for whisky fans, a trip to Islay can also include a gin or two as, one of the most popular gins, The Botanist, is made at the famed Bruichladdich distillery. Throughout the week, the Oro team run a bespoke programme of Distillery Tours and Tasting Classes, from 10am – 4pm, Monday to Friday. The tour concludes with a full tasting of the distillery's gins, vodka and rum, and a drink of choice will be poured to enjoy with a selection of canapés. Offering two relaxed distillery tours, with plenty of gin and a selection of canapés made by local chefs (include some NB gin infused foods), visitors can chill in the bespoke lounge complete with log burners and comfortable sofas.