Cotswolds Distillery

In 2014, founder Dan, a native New Yorker, moved to the Cotswolds after working in finance in London for years. Seeking to leave behind that world and spend more time in the
pretty countryside of the Cotswolds with his family, it eventually dawned on him that he could combine his love of whisky with his desire to start a new business.
Hailing from New York, he’d seen the rapid growth of the craft distilling movement in the US where there are thousands of small-scale artisan distillers–Dan figured that, much like the craft beer boom, the same pattern would be replicated in the UK.

A dedicated whisky fan, Dan saw the fields of golden barley all around his house in the Cotswolds and had a brainwave ‘I suddenly thought, there’s barley all over the Cotswolds and nobody’s distilling it, let’s be the first!’ Having found a derelict site near his house, he set about building and equipping the distillery and a team to run it. The doors of the
Cotswolds Distillery opened in July 2014.

The aim of the distillery was to produce Outstanding Natural Spirits in one of the most beautiful regions in the world and has become the first full-scale distillery within the Cotswolds – a designated ‘Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty’.

From single malt whiskies to gins and liqueurs, everything is about quality and flavour where possible, to emphasise the rich agricultural bounty of the Cotswolds, starting with the barley in the whisky which is grown 15 minutes from the distillery, on the Blenheim estate. The principle things that grow in the Cotswolds are fruits and grains, and those are the
building blocks of flavour profile.