OUR GIN ADVENTURE...
Our gin adventure began on one of our family walks on Dartmoor when we came up with an idea to produce a seasonal blend gin. A handcrafted gin that reflected its place of origin by using an inspiring selection of locally foraged ingredients that would change with the seasons and produce a distinctive gin experience.
‘moor distinctive’™
WE CRAFT IN SMALL BATCHES OF NOT MORE THAN 50 BOTTLES
We believe that nature has many exciting berries, plants and blossom combinations still waiting to be discovered. That’s why we embarked on a mission to match traditional gin botanicals with wild, local, seasonal ingredients to create a refined and elegant gin that will always be unlike any other.
Why the name Ten Tor? - Ten, for our base 10 traditional botanicals and Tor, for the distinctive granite outcrops on Dartmoor, a place as unique as our gin.
Gin botanicals distilled with Wheat Grain Spirit and blended with pure Dartmoor Spring water.
Craft distilled and hand bottled in Chudleigh, Devon
Vapour Infused
We do things a bit differently at Dartmoor Spirit™ - rather than soaking and stewing our precious botanicals in spirit before distilling we undertake a more delicate and reverent process known as 'Vapour Infusion'.
This method holds all of our gin botanicals in a fine mesh 'gin basket' within the Still, as the heated spirit vapours rise the unique flavours of our botanicals
are gently released and join together in a tantalising vapour infusion which then passes through our copper condenser. The resulting captured gin spirit is then carefully blended with pure Dartmoor spring water to create a premium quality, unfiltered London Dry Gin that reflects creativity, character and provenance.
The reward!...
TRUE SPIRIT
Very small batch production enables us to get to know each and every bottle – we mark each bottle with it’s respective ‘Batch’ and ‘Season’.
We pick, select, ‘pestle & mortar’, distill, blend, taste, hand bottle, cork, label and box – endeavouring to produce a truly artisan gin that exceeds expectations.
TASTING NOTES
Each season will reflect an ever changing array of freshly foraged botanicals, berries, blossom and fruit and therefore each season’s batches will bring a different gin with varying taste and style.
FURTHER GIN ADVENTURES...
Our classic juniper and citrus handcrafted dry gin is infused for twenty four hours with fragrant juicy raspberries.
A bright, delicate and uplifting pairing, deliciously refreshing anytime and anywhere…
(maybe at The Macaw Bar in South America, under the leaf canopy, looking out at the ocean, with macaws hanging out of the trees?..mmm, there’s a thought).
Enjoy with indian tonic and lime, – or neat over a cube of ice and a true revelation in your next cocktail.
SQUAWKING MACAW COCKTAIL
50ml Scarlet Macaw gin
20ml simple sugar syrup
25ml Campari
indian tonic water
squeeze of lime juice
3 wedges of lime
cubed ice
big straw… with a strawberry and mint leaf garnish
Chill your glass
Pour the gin, Campari and simple syrup into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Squeeze in some fresh lime juice.
Strain into a highball glass over fresh ice pour in your tonic to taste.
Garnish
Sit back in your hammock, and enjoy your hard work!
WHERE TO BUY
Kick off your walking boots, wellies, brogues or stilettos, sit back and enjoy a refreshing
Gin -here’s where you can get hold of a bottle
BY THE GLASS
Hotel Endsleigh, Milton Abbot | Ilsington Country House Hotel, Ilsington | Exeter Golf & Country Club, Exeter | The Swan Inn, Lympstone | The Oddfellows, Exeter and Exmouth | The Phoenix, Chudleigh | Churston Manor, Brixham | Hidden Olive, Plymouth | Crocketts Bar, Exeter | Dartmoor Lodge Hotel | Cofton Country Holidays | Seven Stars, Kennford | Castle Inn, Porlock | The Point Bar & Grill, Exmouth | Fortescue Inn, Salcombe | Darlington Crystal Gin Bar, Great Torrington | New Inn, Roborough | Churston Court, Brixham | Ashill Inn, Cullompton | Royal Oak, Heavitree
BY THE BOTTLE
Regency Wines, Exeter Sidmouth Wine, Sidmouth | Darts Farm, Topsham | Berry Dairy, Thorverton | Becky Falls Woodland Park Shop | Biddeden Vineyard, Sussex | The Tipsy Merchant, Budleigh Salterton | Stoke Gabriel Stores
Please contact first to avoid a ‘sold out’ journey!
You can always email us with your location and we will let you know your nearest stockist.
ONLINE
We will add stockists as they increase, at this time we are unfortunately not licensed to sell direct to the public.
If you are a
licensed outlet and
you would like to stock
TEN TOR™ SEASONAL GIN
then please get
in touch.
Our handcrafted little gin is very to special to us
- we hope it becomes special to you.
The Smith family.
The Spirit of Adventure