Like all good stories, ours started with discovering a loophole in an archaic law, that prevented craft distilling. That’s where Dr John Walters comes in: a former Oxford scholar, with a background in biochemistry and the pharmaceutical industry, who was looking for a new challenge. After listening to a Radio 4 feature about French eau de vie, Dr John was left inspired to try his hand at distilling and set about defiantly setting up a four litre still for personal use, which launched him onto a new epicurean adventure.
Since that first unaged brandy, John has accumulated more than 30,000 hours of distilling experience; ‘turning’ the stills an average of 10 times a day, 5 days a week, for over a decade. Within that time his efforts have been well received and our distillery has produced an extraordinary number of awards from prestigious international competitions, including the World’s Best Rum, Vodka, Gin and many more. Even so, many of the processes are still performed by hand; ensuring the quality of the product remains unrivalled.
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