We are Emma & Graham, the distillers, bottle washers, labellers and general gin obsessives behind Walnut Tree Distillery.
The farm's relationship with gin started 3 generations ago, with the advent of Emma's great grandmother's sloe gin recipe. As was the case for many agricultural labourers of the time, the hedgerows provided a different kind of harvest, to that of the fields, and we still pick our sloes from the same trees and bushes that our predecessors did. Whilst we have branched out in some of our gin production, our sloe gin is still made in the same way as it always was, all those years ago, in the family farmhouse, hence it's name.