Plymouth Sloe Gin
Plymouth Sloe Gin is a quintessentially English drink – the origins of which have been lost in time.
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Alcohol %
26%
Serving Size
- 25ml
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Only the Devonshire hedgerows know the true origins of Plymouth Sloe Gin, a quintessentially English drink. Sometimes it’s best to let legends lie and just go with the flow. Sloe berries grow all over Europe, of course, but there’s something in the Devonshire hedgerows that sets the Plymouth variety apart. Whatever it is, it’s been working for two centuries and counting.
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The Plymouth Distillery is the oldest working distillery in England. It has been making Plymouth Gin according to the original recipe since 1793
The building dates back to the early 1400s, with the most intact part of the distillery, the Refectory Room – a medieval hall with a fine hull-shaped timber roof built in 1431, being one of the oldest buildings in Plymouth. It is thus protected as a national monument and is one of the city’s most precious heritages. The Distillery buildings were formerly a monastery inhabited by the Black Friars. In 1536, at the time of the Reformation and dissolution of the monasteries, the former home of the Black Friars was put to a variety of other uses including being the town’s Marshalsea or debtor’s prison. It was also the first Non-Conformist meeting place and a billet for Huguenot refugees who fled France for Plymouth.
