Whisky Founders’ Club

 
 

New make spirit production is well underway with casks 001 - 050 having been laid down, this means for the first time ever (as far as our exhaustive research could find) whisky will be produced in Somerset (please if you know of any whisky production prior to this let me know?)!

The distillery is already producing award winning gin, and rum production is well under way. The Whisky Founders’ Club is being set up to give whisky fans direct access to both products and production. Everybody who buys into the Founders’ club will get whisky from cask 001 (although bronze memberships will have a smaller bottle).

The Founders’ Club then provides the distillery with much needed cash to allow us to drive production forward and to invest in equipment as we grow. Laying down casks of whisky is not a cheap pass time!

What to expect

Being a new distillery we are not tied to tradition, this means we are free to experiment with a variety of malts, yeasts, fermentation profiles, distillation methods and barrel types. In the early years (and beyond) there will be many many single cask releases as we experiment and play.

Although we are not tied to tradition we do believe in using some of the oldest methods and techniques like direct fired copper stills, we will also never chill filter, and we will never dose spirit with caramel to add colour.

The spirit we produce where possible will be made made form locally grown and malted malts, Somerset and Wiltshire are well known for growing barley, and we are lucky to have Warminster Maltings only a few miles away.

Our New Make Spirit

We have been sending out our new make spirit to our Founders’ Club members as well as a few respected people in the industry, here is what people have been saying.

“Nose: Sweet summer grasses, with a fresh maltiness. Hints of petrichor and celery salt. Palate: It's sweet and really quite creamy on the palate. Bright and fresh, with hints of eucalyptus and orange zest. Finishing with a little spicy pepper, and lingering grassy sweetness and there's a satsuma/tangerine juice note that lingers in the empty glass afterwards. Looking forward to seeing how this develops as it matures in oak.” - Dave Worthington, Global Brand Ambassador for award winning independent bottler That Boutique-y Whisky Company

"I really like the flavour and texture, it has a nice malty character, with pears and strawberry behind." - Dawn Davies, Buying Director, Speciality Drinks Ltd

“Nose - grappa, apricot compote or jam, slightly medicinal with a sezchuan pepper spiciness. Palate - creamy warmth, apricot stones and pepper on the tip of the tongue. Finish - creamy with lingering pepper spiciness. This is a very refined new make, it’s very drinkable as it is, so I’m extremely excited to see what becomes if it after 3+ years in casks. There are clearly some great elements coming together here - ingredients, equipment, skill and impeccable timing to produce a drink you could bottle and sell on the continent as a finished spirit. I don’t know who they’re getting retribution on, but this distillery is only going to make friends producing stuff of this quality so quickly out the trap. Great stuff!” - Richard Foster, Exploring English Whisky

So far our new make has gone down very well with all who have tried it, it really is showing promise, and we cant wait to see how it developed over the next few years.

Cask 001

Its a ex bourbon quarter cask, we’re going for quality not quantity.

Founders’ Packages

We are offering 3 packages to allow different levels of access to products and the distillery which cover a wide range of budgets.

Bronze

Cost £50

  • 10cl (2 x 5cl bottles) from cask 001 abv to be confirmed

  • 10cl (2 x 5cl bottles) of new make spirit at 40% abv

  • Early access to pre release spirits and special releases

  • Founders’ membership card

  • Name on founders page of website

  • Founders’ quarterly email

Silver

Cost £195

  • 1 x 70cl bottle from cask 001 abv to be confirmed

  • 1 x 20cl bottle of new make spirit at 40% abv

  • 1 x £20 gift voucher which can be spent in the web shop

  • Early access to pre release spirits and special releases

  • Founders’ membership card

  • Name on founders page of website

  • Founders’ quarterly email



Gold

Cost £500

  • 1 x 70cl bottle from cask 001 abv to be confirmed

  • 1 x 20cl bottle of new make spirit at 40% abv

  • 10cl of maturing spirit from cask 001 at 2 years of age abv to be confirmed

  • 1 x 70cl bottle of a special release whisky abv to be confirmed

  • Entry into draw for bottle 001 of cask 001

  • Early option to buy private cask, with 5% Founders’ Club discount (first cask only)

  • 1 x £50 gift voucher which can be spent in the web shop

  • A afternoon at the distillery for you and a friend including a tasting in the cask store (distillery not open to the public). Tour and tasting conducted by the distillery owner/distiller

  • Early access to pre release spirits and special releases

  • 10% off in the online store for life

  • Founders’ membership card

  • Name on founders page of website

  • Founders’ quarterly email