In celebration of Hogmanay, Eden Mill are delighted to unveil our first-ever Cask Strength Single Malt. The Scots word ‘Hogmanay’ refers to the last day of the year and to the celebration of the coming New Year. Eden Mill wanted to celebrate Hogmanay this year by releasing a small batch of only 200 bottles of Cask Strength whisky to toast in celebration of 2021. This whisky is a Cask Strength version of our 2020 Release Single Malt, released in celebration of St. Andrews Day earlier this year.
Eden Mill are so proud to showcase the evolution of our cask and spirit as it ages and develops throughout the years. This special release is the first Cask Strength whisky that Eden Mill has ever released and we are very excited to let our audience try our whisky as it tastes straight from the cask in its purest form.
This liquid, created by our Head Distiller Scott Ferguson, was created by incorporating Bourbon, Pedro Ximenez and Oloroso barrels as well as spirit distilled using Pale, Chocolate, Brown and Crystal Malt Barley.
Award-winning distillers Eden Mill have unveiled an exclusive limited edition 800 bottes of its 2020 Release Single Malt Scotch in time for St. Andrews’ Day.
Retailing at £85, the 2020 Release is the fourth single malt whisky by Eden Mill in three years, since the unveiling of the first bottling in 2017 from their distillery just outside St Andrews. The whisky liquid incorporates bourbon, Pedro Ximenez and Oloroso barrels as well as spirit distilled using pale, chocolate, brown and crystal malt barley. This expression is reminiscent of light vanilla and toasted cinnamon leading into a spiced fruit finish. Collectors can buy the bottle on its own or as part of a special Eden Mill whisky hamper alongside two new additions to Eden Mill’s hipflask series.
Scott Ferguson, Eden Mill’s head distiller, spoke about the 2020 batch: “The liquid we have crafted pushes the boundaries of our previous whisky expressions. This small batch of Eden Mill single malt showcases the evolution of cask and spirit, bringing you light vanilla and toasted cinnamon from bourbon barrels, combined with the rich fruit and subtle spice from our distinctive range of sherry casks, leading to a creamy biscuity finish.”
The launch of Eden Mill’s 2020 Single Malt comes as the distillery celebrates a successful year of sales, with an increase of 600 percent year on year from online sales. Tony Kelly, co-founder of Eden Mill said: “This limited release is a real reflection of the team, our passion and Eden Mill’s pioneering spirit which has stayed strong throughout 2020. We can’t wait for people to enjoy a dram of our 2020 Single Malt Scotch safely at home this festive season. We anticipate the new year with excitement and hope as we look forward to the relief a vaccine will bring and also the completion of our new carbon neutral single malt distillery in St Andrews, which will be the first of its kind in Scotland and a significant step in our Eden Mill journey.”
2020 SINGLE MALT SCOTCH WHISKY TASTING NOTES
Nose: Sherry fruit forward, with bright fruity notes of raisin and plum and a lively oak spice alongside. Under these sweet notes is a creamy maltiness and light hint of apricot. Taste: Peppery spice initially, with rich raisin and date sweetness. Spice persists as the sweetness begins to fade, with hints of toasted cinnamon and light vanilla sweetness towards the end, reminiscent of butterscotch candy. Finish: As the spice fades, hints of roasted malt and crumbly shortbread linger. Sweet and spicy notes balance to leave a gentle apricot fruit and subtle cassia spice.
AVAILABLE NOW
If you would like to purchase at bottle of Eden Mill’s 2020 Release Single Malt 70cl, 46.5% ABV you can order at www.edenmill.com/2020release
Eden Mill Black Friday event is now LIVE. Shop here!
The Eden Mill Black Friday Sale includes handpicked best-sellers from our year of 2020 so far! We have so many fantastic products on offer but have outlined our top deals for you to choose from for this week!
Eden Mill Black Friday Top Picks!
Candy Cane Christmas Bundle
Eden Mill’s Candy Cane Christmas bundle is all of your festive gin needs in one easy bundle! Including our Candy Cane Christmas Gin and a case of our pre-mixed Candy Cane Mojito cocktail, this Candy Cane bundle has everything you need this festive season!
Gin Box Variety Pack
Eden Mill’s Gin box variety pack is perfect for those cosy gin nights in. With a mix of twelve pre-mixed mixology project cocktails and our gin and tonic pre-mixed cans, this gin box is perfect for all cocktail lovers this Christmas!
Love Gin Liqueur Bundle
Can’t decide between your favourite Love Gin Liqueur? Why not get all three with our Love Gin Liqueur bundle! These liqueurs are perfect added into your favourite prosecco or great to experiment with some home-made cocktails, our Love Gin Liqueur bundle has all of the essentials you need!
That’s Christmas Sorted Bundle
The ‘That’s Christmas Sorted’ bundle includes some of our best seasonal offers to help you celebrate this Christmas! This bundle includes:
Candy Cane Christmas Gin, 70cl
Candy Cane Mojito Gin Cocktails [12 x 250ml]
6 x Christmas Crackers [each contain 1 x 5cl Love Gin miniature]
Mixology Project Cuboid [4x250ML Gin Cocktails and Goblet]
Botano Gin
Inspired by the tastes of the Mediterranean, Botano (pronounced Voh-ta-noh) is Greek for ‘herb.’ Infusing a selection of aromatic herbs with zesty lemon and orange peel, makes this gin both fresh and fragrant. Botano Gin is a favourite amongst Eden Mill staff since it’s first release in 2017 for World Gin Day.
In our classic, ceramic bottle Eden Mill Botano Gin makes a perfect gift for any loved ones this festive season!
Eden Mill are so excited to reveal our latest, festive collaboration with BonBox, a luxury handmade artisan chocolatier. After our most recent collaboration with BonBox sold out within 72 hours so we just knew we had to create a brand new offer.
The Ultimate Festive Hot Chocolate!
For our latest collaboration, we’re pairing 100 bottles of our Candy Cane Christmas Gin with BoxBox’s luxury white hot chocolate to create the ultimate festive serve.
Candy Cane Gin Ultimate Boozy Hot Chocolate
With the nights getting darker and just a little bit colder, we wanted to bring some warmth into peoples homes and gardens this Christmas with a luxury, premium white hot chocolate and gin mix! This latest collaboration includes all of the ingredients you need to create the ultimate, luxury boozy festive white hot chocolate in five easy steps!
How to create the ultimate boozy hot chocolate
Place 3 heaped dessert spoons of white chocolate flakes into a mug.
Fill the remainder with milk and microwave for around 2 minutes (make sure to leave a few centimetres at the top for your gin!)
Stir in 50ml Candy Cane Gin.
Top with whipped cream
Garnish with crushed Candy Canes or white chocolate shavings and enjoy!
Eden Mill Candy Cane Christmas Gin
Eden Mill Candy Cane Christmas Gin is the perfect balance of juniper and cool candy cane freshness. Think of a candy cane in gin form – red, delicious, with a candied, cool peppermint twist!
BonBox Artisan Chocolates, Luxury White Drinking Chocolate (250g)
Finely grated white chocolate with a sweet vanilla finish, loaded with cocoa butter ensuring a velvety, luxurious and indulgent drink.
Barry Gamble, owner of BonBox:
‘Eden Mill wanted to pair their festive Candy Cane Christmas Gin with a hot chocolate to accentuate both the flavour and striking colour of their gin. I just knew our luxury white hot chocolate would create a wonderful pink colour when mixed, creating the ultimate adult treat for the cold winter’s evenings.’
About BonBox:
Chocolatier Barry from BonBox trained at City of Glasgow before refining his skill and fascination with taste at some of the city’s finest kitchens such as Le Chardon d`Or, Dakota and Chelsea Market. As Scottish Chef of the year Semi-finalist and Game Chef of the year runner up he continually pushed the boundaries using seasonal local produce to create unique flavour combinations.
Ever conscious that luxurious eating should excite all of the senses, sight, aroma, and of course memorable taste his chocolates are unique, striking and developing subtle flavours that are interesting and memorable. Taking flavours people feel comfortable with and turning them on their head with twists of intrigue such as miso, tonka, fir and sea buckthorn.
‘Everyone loves the sensation of chocolate, so at BonBox we always strive to be, sensational. Comforting and luxurious, yet interesting and unique, never predictable, always memorable.Great Chocolate evokes a sense of occasion, of friends, of sharing, of the relaxed joy of the moment.At BonBox we create splendid Bon Bons of exceptional flavour, texture and beauty, all for your pleasure.Our hand crafted and painted Bon Bons make your gift, an occasion, an experience, thoughtful, memorable, and always sensational.’
Eden Mill and BonBox Collaboration
‘Eden Mill loves working with local suppliers to create new and exciting offers for our customers. By working with suppliers that share the same passion for premium, handcrafted products as we do we believe we can deliver an extra special experience for our customers every time they purchase.’
Order you Eden Mill Candy Cane Gin and BonBox White Hot Chocolate for £28 here.
For the first time, Eden Mill is delighted to unveil a fabulous lineup of Christmas Hampers which promise to delight this festive season. We’ve paired a selection of our favourite spirits with sumptuous sweet and savoury accompaniments and a thoughtful collection of festive treats that are sure to deliver a delightful little something for everyone. Whether you’re a gin lover or a whisky connoisseur, we’ve got the perfect hamper for you.
From our home to yours, we’ve picked the perfect selection of treats to make this winter a warm one. Our seasonal Candy Cane Gin is a Christmas must-have, and in our hampers it’s joined by a few of our other favourites, like our best-selling Love Gin and the new limited release Chocolate & Chilli Gin. For those with a taste for cocktails we’ve got our artfully created ready-to-drink mixology range (perfect for the festive night out at home), and our 2019 Single Malt Release is ready to be enjoyed by your fireside. Each hamper is completed by a hand-selected variety of luxury collaboration surprises, from scented candles to artisan chocolates and gin-infused jam.
At Eden Mill, we care deeply about supporting local businesses, which is why we’re delighted to be collaborating with so many talented local craftspeople and small businesses in our brand new Christmas hamper range. The old Scottish word ‘coorie’ means to snuggle down or to nestle, encouraging thoughts of comfort and support. This is a fitting sentiment for a nation preparing to spend a Christmas season at home, and one which we kept firmly in our minds while designing our Christmas hampers. So, we invite you to choose the Eden Mill way to celebrate the joy of the festive season with your loved ones this Christmas.
BonBox Artisan Chocolatier:
Eden Mill has been working closely with master chocolatier Barry Gamble and his artisan chocolate company, Bonbox, to select the perfect chocolates for our luxury hampers. These hampers include BonBox’s signature ‘winter selection’ pack that includes 9 handmade chocolate bonbons. Barry has also created a delicious and indulgent hot chocolate drink exclusively for the hamper. We would suggest you try a measure of our Candy Cane Christmas Gin stirred into this luxury hot chocolate for the ultimate festive winter warmer cocktail.
JoJo Candle:
Fife candle maker JoJo Co have created the perfect winter scent with their Winter Grace candle. Inspired by nature and the changing seasons on the Fife coast, the candle is sophisticated and luxurious with notes of wood and spice.
The Whisky Sauce Company:
The Whisky Sauce Company have created a special Scottish raspberry and Love Gin jam, using the finest Scottish berries and the distiller’s premium pink gin. They have also created a malt whisky caramel sauce with Eden Mill’s 2019 Release Single Malt Scotch whisky, perfect served with mince pies.
Each Eden Mill hamper includes a munificent selection of Eden Mill’s craft gin, mixology cocktails, gin liqueurs and the distiller’s pioneering range of single malt whisky, alongside candles, copper cocktail sets, craft conserves, chocolates and more.
Pre-order Your Eden Mill Christmas Hamper Today:
Each hamper is beautifully presented in a stunning wicker basket. Contact us at hello@edenmill.com with a personalised gift message and we’ll add this to your hamper. Hampers can only be shipped to the UK mainland only. Pre-order now for dispatch 1st December.
Corporate Gifting: Looking for a corporate or client gift to really impress? Our hampers are highly premium and luxurious boasting an impressive arrangement of Scottish hand-crafted produce. We recommend The Ultimate Hamper which will be guaranteed to impress.
EDEN MILL SUPPORT THE DRINKS TRUST CHARITY WITH DONATIONS FROM LOVE GIN SALES
LOVE GIN, LOVE HOSPITALITY
£2 from every 70cl bottle of Love Gin sold at £30 will help The Drinks Trust (and in Scotland The Ben: Scottish Licenses Trade Benevolent Society) to support wellness services they’ve launched in response to the emerging and likely long-term effects of the Covid-19 crisis on hospitality, including counselling services, help with sleep and insomnia and mindful drinking courses aimed at nurturing a healthy relationship with alcohol.
Love Gin, Love Hospitality will see a percentage of online sales of Eden Mill’s famous pink gin donated to charities which provide care and support to people from the drinks industry workforce.
Eden Mill CEO Tony Kelly said:
“Although we understand the need for further restrictions being brought in across Scotland and throughout the UK to control the rapid spread of Coronavirus, it’s coming down very hard on the hospitality industry and we know from conversations with our industry partners that hospitality is desperate for support. First reduced capacity and 10pm curfews, now a ban on alcohol sales and local hospitality closures; many bars, pubs and restaurants will struggle to survive.
In our opinion, while staying at home is the safest option, bars, pubs and restaurants have staff trained to manage the safe consumption of alcohol since before Covid began, and hospitality has made huge efforts to regulate their spaces to be the safest environments. Banning alcohol consumption and closing hospitality can only serve to encourage the unregulated mixing of households as the public are tempted to meet at home, therefore accelerating the spread of the virus.
Our Love Gin motto is ‘Share the Love’ and it is absolutely essential for us to show our support to an industry on its knees, so we’re donating £2 from every Love Gin 70cl bottle sold on our site to The Drinks Trust.
This summer we raised £10,000 for NHS associated charities, including CHAS and Masks 4 NHS Heroes with our blue Original Gin bottle, so we can only encourage our caring and generous customers to join us again in supporting an industry close to our hearts which needs our help.”
Ross Carter, CEO of The Drinks Trust, commented:
“We are incredibly thankful to Eden Mill for their support to The Drinks Trust. The impact of these fundraising initiatives on the lives of our colleagues and friends in the drinks industry is significant and it will enable us to provide more help to those in need of our help in these difficult times”.
Chris Gardner, CEO of TheScottish Licenses Trade Benevolent Society said:
“This is fantastic news for the charity, we are under great pressure trying to help those in the trade in need, especially in these challenging times. Thanks to all at Eden Mill for thinking of us, it will make a huge difference”.
Eden Mill Love Gin is the St Andrews distiller’s famous premium pink gin. Made from a blend of vibrant botanicals including rose petals and hibiscus, when diluted the gin releases sweet vanilla notes and floral flavour.
For a pink gin, the Love Gin bottle is very green, it uses 18% less glass than the industry standard bottle. Made in the UK and distilled in St Andrews, it has a low carbon footprint.
The 70cl bottles are available to buy here for £30 or can be bought in-store at one of Eden Mill’s festive pop-up shops in Livingston, St Andrews, Glasgow’s Princes Square and Silverburn.
About the Drinks Trust
‘The Drinks Trust is the drinks industry community organisation. Since 1886, The Drinks Trust (formerly The Benevolent) has provided care and support to the people who form the drinks industry workforce, both past and present. Today, The Drinks Trust provide vocational, practical, emotional and financial support to those who are currently working, or have worked, in the UK drinks industry. The Drinks Trust is run by drinks industry professionals, funded by drinks industry partners and supported by thousands of drinks industry fundraisers, volunteers and contributors.
Since January the charity has helped over 2,000 beneficiaries and awarded grants of over half a million pound. This year in light with the emerging and likely long-term effects that the current situation will have on the mental health and wellness on the colleagues of the drinks industry, The Drinks Trust to launch significantly increased wellness services, including counselling services, help with sleep and insomnia, mindful drinking courses aimed at nurturing a healthy relationship with alcohol.
About the Scottish Licensed Trade Benevolent Society
Scotland’s hospitality and licensed trade charity, The Ben is a safety net for anyone who works in the hospitality and license trade facing extreme financial hardship as a result of the virus. In addition, The Ben offers a free mental health helpline which can be reached on 0800 915 4610.
Supporting The Ben is easy and there are many ways to help. Each year, the charity need to raise £300k to support former and current members of our trade facing financial, social and emotional difficulties.
We’re excited to reveal our latest collaboration with Bon Box, a luxury handmade artisan chocolatier, based in Edinburgh.
We worked closely with Bon Box to create two bespoke chocolates exclusively for Eden Mill to perfectly complement our limited edition Chocolate and Chilli Gin.
Valencia Orange Buttons: Exquisite, Belgian white chocolate, blended with creamy caramel, infused with the thrill of orange to excite and reward.
Dark Coffee Buttons: Deep roasted coffee combined with the creamy sensation of roasted cocoa and slight hint of sweetness, revel in the depth and luxury as they sparkle of silver.
Our limited edition Chocolate & Chilli Gin, is a sweet chocolate-pudding like flavour, with a fiery chilli kick, which we think pairs perfectly with a Valencian Orange mixer or as the base spirit in an espresso martini. Our collaboration with Bon Box has resulted in the creation of a Valencia chocolate orange button to complement our valencian orange perfect serve and dark coffee chocolate buttons to complement the perfect cocktail serve of an espresso martini.
What’s in the gift set?
Each gift set will include 1 x Chocolate & Chilli Gin, 2 x Eden Mill etched Martini Glasses, 1 pack of 5 Bon Box artisan Valencia chocolate orange buttons, 1 pack of 5 Bon Box artisan dark coffee chocolate buttons, beautifully presented in a premium Eden Mill gift box.
About Bon Box:
Chocolatier Barry from Bon Box trained at City of Glasgow before refining his skill and fascination with taste at some of the city’s finest kitchens such as Chardon d`Or, Dakota and Chelsea Market. As Scottish Chef of the year Semi-finalist and Game Chef of the year runner up he continually pushed the boundaries using seasonal local produce to create unique flavour combinations.
Ever conscious that luxurious eating should excite all of the senses, sight, aroma, and of course memorable taste his chocolates are unique, striking and developing subtle flavours that are interesting and memorable. Taking flavours people feel comfortable with and turning them on their head with twists of intrigue such as miso, tonka, fir and sea buckthorn.
‘Everyone loves the sensation of chocolate, so at Bon Box we always strive to be, sensational. Comforting and luxurious, yet interesting and unique, never predictable, always memorable.Great Chocolate evokes a sense of occasion, of friends, of sharing, of the relaxed joy of the moment.At Bon Box we create splendid Bon Bons of exceptional flavour, texture and beauty, all for your pleasure.Our hand crafted and painted Bon Bons make your gift, an occasion, an experience, thoughtful, memorable, and always sensational.’
Bon Box – Why we have chosen to work with Eden Mill?
‘Eden Mill loves working with local suppliers to create new and exciting offers for our customers. By working with suppliers that share the same passion for premium, handcrafted products as we do we believe we can deliver an extra special experience for our customers every time they purchase.’
The Chocolate & Chilli Gin Bon Box collaboration gift set is exclusively available at edenmill.com for £40. Only 50 sets available. Shop here.
Best before date: 20/03/21.
Store in a cool place away from direct sunlight or heat source.
Sample Barry’s passion with his sensational Bonbons, follow him on Instagram and Facebook to see where the journey goes next.
To celebrate the new partnership between Dundee United and Eden Mill as the club’s first-ever sleeve sponsor, Eden Mill are launching a competition for Dundee United supporters to help create an exclusive Dundee United Gin. The lucky winner will represent the Dundee United support alongside some key members of the first team, background staff and the team at Eden Mill.
HOW TO ENTER
The winner will join Eden Mill and the team at Dundee United to create and design the bottle for the new gin, carefully select the botanicals and see behind the scenes at Eden Mill where we create our gin. You’ll be involved from start to finish!
TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY
The competition will be open for two weeks and closes 29/07/2020 at noon. Entrants must be 25 years and over. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, we will continually review the situation to ensure our participants safety.
You can read more about our new partnership here: Dundee United page link.
LIMITED EDITION BOTTLE IN SUPPORT OF NHS AND HEALTHCARE WORKERS
In April 2020, Eden Mill created 5,000 limited edition bottles of their award-winning Original Gin in support of NHS and Healthcare workers. £2 from every bottle sold has been donated to charities supporting NHS and Healthcare workers.
We are proud to announce that from today (22nd June 2020), £2 from each bottle of our Original Gin sold, will be donated to CHAS.
We are proud to announce that we reached our target for the first 2 months of sales of our limited edition bottles. These funds have been donated to Masks for NHS Heroes, a crowdfunding effort set up by front-line NHS doctors to help raise money for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Duty To Care. Duty To Care’s mission is to provide wellbeing support via online consultation to improve and sustain the mental health and wellbeing of healthcare professionals.
Children’s Hospices Across Scotland, better known as CHAS, continues to be there for these families through the most difficult times. Their hospices are still open but with reduced capacity – providing physical, hands-on support for the most urgent cases. The CHAS at Home team continues to provide vital care in people’s homes. Of course this is in addition to their ongoing work in hospitals to provide specialist palliative support to their NHS colleagues working with children with life-shortening conditions. This includes their specialist palliative care team in Glasgow Children’s Hospital, as well as their Diana children’s nurses who work in the major children’s hospitals across Scotland.
We absolutely love and appreciate the work that CHAS do, and we hope that we can help support families through their toughest times.
Megan Stobo, Senior Corporate Partnerships Executive from CHAS said;
‘Knowing your child will die young is the hardest thing. It is made even harder with the constant worry about what Coronavirus infection means, and the stark reality of isolation.
To ensure we can continue supporting every referred child and their families who are shielding at home, we have launched the UK’s first Virtual Children’s Hospice, providing remote access to a range of remote support from CHAS. Essential medical advice, creative activity packs and videos as well as fun and games with Clown Doctors and music therapists will be provided for free. For those who can’t currently visit CHAS’s hospice support and creative activities as usual, the virtual hospice will not only help them survive this unprecedented situation, but help them thrive and continue to smile – keeping the joy alive.
We are so grateful to the team at Eden Mill, and indeed their fantastic customers for supporting children and families through this wonderful initiative.“
The 70cl bottles are available to buy direct here for £30.
