Kintyre Gin

Housed in an old farm building on Torrisdale Castle Estate near Campbeltown, Beinn an Tuirc is Kintyre’s first craft gin distillery. The Gaelic name translates as ‘hill of the wild boar’, referring to the highest point on the Kintyre peninsula, and both the hill and the boar are depicted on the Kintyre Gin branding. The distillery was established by the laird of the estate, Niall Macalister Hall, and his wife, Emma, as a way of generating more income for the upkeep of the inherited castle and the land. The gin still is powered by the estate’s hydroelectric scheme, which Niall also installed as a way of creating extra eco-revenue in 2015, in the hope that they might be able to fix the castle roof and make it watertight – they live in the castle with their two children, a black lab and a previously feral cat.