Archive: these gins were featured in 2023. Check with producers for current products and availability.
This 2023 selection highlights gins from the Peak District and surrounding areas, from classic dry styles to floral and fruit flavours.
Beer District, which sold local spirits in Buxton when this feature was published, closed in 2025.
1. Shining Cliff Gin
White Peak Distillery makes Shining Cliff Original Gin using 13 botanicals and vapour distillation. It is inspired by the nearby woodland.
2. Forest Gin
Forest Gin is made by The Forest Distillery, now based at the Cat & Fiddle in the Peak District. The business began near Macclesfield Forest.
3. Chesterfield Pomegranate Gin
Derbyshire Distillery’s Chesterfield Pomegranate is a fruit-forward dry gin with distilled pomegranate alongside juniper and botanicals including coriander and cardamom.
Chesterfield Pomegranate at Master of Malt
4. Cloud View Gin
Cloud View Gin takes inspiration from The Cloud near Congleton. Its botanicals include blackberry and rosemary alongside juniper, coriander and angelica.
5. Bakewell Gin
Descriptions of an earlier bottling highlight cherry and almond alongside juniper, cubeb pepper, cardamom and hibiscus. The original feature suggested serving Bakewell Gin with tonic or lemonade.
Bakewell Gin at Master of Malt
6. Wild Spirit Gin by Manchester Gin
Manchester Gin’s Wild Spirit is a savoury, herbaceous gin inspired by Manchester’s green spaces. The distillery describes botanicals including lemon balm, sage, lemon thyme, dandelion and burdock.
The Spirit of Manchester Distillery
7. Peaky’s Distillery Derbyshire Dry Gin
The original feature described Peaky’s Derbyshire Dry Gin as created in Glossop, with floral, citrus and juniper notes.
8. Derwent Gin
The original feature described Derwent Gin as a small-batch gin produced on the Chatsworth estate, made using a copper alembic still and infused in oak.
9. The Cheshire Gin Company – lemon gin liqueur
The original feature described a Cheshire Gin Company lemon gin liqueur made with lemon zest, blended with gin and produced using Buxton spring water. It suggested serving the liqueur with sparkling wine.
10. Paper Mill Distillery – Chai Gin
Paper Mill Distillery in Cheddleton, Staffordshire, describes its Chai Gin as a dry gin infused with masala chai, rose petals and black pepper. The distillery suggests serving it with ginger ale and a lime wedge.
11. Flower House Gin
The original feature described a strawberry and rose gin from The Flower House in Macclesfield. A 2023 local report also noted that the florist sold its own gin.
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