If you’d love to try our delicious, award-winning damson No 12 vodka, you can purchase all our products in our online Gattertop Drinks Co shop. The great taste of our Damson No 12 is achieved by steeping premium grain vodka and home-grown damsons for a minimum of 12 months, producing a deeper, exceptional fruity flavour.
To make a product order on our website, take a look at our online range. For all trade enquiries, please email us now at sales@gattertopdrinks.com.
[read more]
Every year in the food and drinks industry, one of the most sought after accolades is those given by the Great Taste Awards. They put good food and drink to the test with a large panel of experts, getting impartial and straightforward feedback from a wide variety of judges, such as buyers, retail outlets, food writers, wine experts and professional chefs.
Back in 2019, we were honoured to have our Damson No 12 product included in their award categories. The exceptional flavour was recognised by their panellists, winning Damson No 12 a Great Taste Champion stamp of approval.
Order Damson No 12 now on our website.
If you’re a fan of infused liquor spirits, you may be wondering why some brands choose vodka and others make their drinks with gin. While gin is one of the more common alcohols infused with plum or damson fruits, as a juniper based spirit, it can confuse the palate with herbal notes rather than bring out the flavour. You can make a higher-quality tasting product by ensuring the flavour profile doesn’t become too complicated due to a juniper-heavy base.
At Gattertop Drinks Co, we use vodka as our spirit of choice for both our award-winning Damson No 12 and Botanic No 7 products. We love this spirit base for its crisp nature and clean taste, which we think only serves to enhance the delicious flavour of the fruit and botanicals we add to our infused spirits. Unlike gin, the taste of vodka is usually untainted, which means it’s the perfect partner for fruit such as damsons.
One of the other reasons many people order vodka is that it’s good if you’re looking for healthier alcoholic drinks. Vodka is the lowest calorie spirit in the industry, fantastic for creating ‘skinny drinks’ when mixed with tonic water or soda.
Both our Damson No 12 and Botanic No 7 products are rooted in history and nature thanks to our country setting. Formally known as Damson Tree, we proudly rebranded as Gattertop Drinks Co last year, building off the success of our award-winning product.
As well as our name change, we’ve also reinvested in our roots, committed to safeguarding our beautiful local environment and country landscape. Many of Britain’s orchards have disappeared over the past decades, so we must preserve and protect the land which we rely on.
We’re pursuing multiple commitments to sustainability, with our new bold identity reflecting the cycle of our country orchards, alongside all the natural fruit and botanicals we use from our land. We hope that our authentic ethos shines through on every product bottle, with the damson tree remaining at our heart.
If you’re looking for new and exciting products in the food and drinks industry, why not start your journey with our thought-provoking damson orchard vodka spirits – the award-winning Damson No 12 and Botanic No 7.
Every stage of producing our Damson No 12 has been considered, from picking our fruit to ensuring it’s easy for our customers to place an order, whatever size bottle (e.g. 35cl or 70cl) or gift bundles you see. Here’s some more information about how our damson tree vodka is made.
All our damsons are home-grown on our ancient land, dating back to 1086. The historical orchards at Gattertop, based in the Herefordshire Hills, date back to Doomsday times, remaining the source of the fruit and botanical ingredients we infuse with our vodka. That’s why you’ll often see ‘from ancient branches to bottle’ used to describe our brand and products.
Our fertile orchards have a Soil Association certification, thanks to the eco-friendly techniques we use on-site. They are one of the leading bodies in the country for issuing organic and sustainable licences to farming, food and textile industries.
We pick our fruit and botanicals at the optimum time to ensure they’re as fresh and seasonal as possible. Damson tree fruit is best picked around August to September time, which is often earlier than you would pick fruit from a plum tree.
We’ve chosen a British premium grain vodka for our Damson No 12 recipe, which has been produced using a spirit produced by the fermentation of ethanol derived from sugar beet. This spirit is perfect for use in our products, free from rye, gluten, wheat and oats. Its clean and crisp character leaves a much smoother vodka than standard spirits.
Artisan crafted drinks are often produced using traditional hand methods, using natural ingredients in smaller batches. This is certainly true of our products sold, avoiding large-scale manufacturing techniques to produce a delicious, high-quality product every time.
Damsons often have a slightly more tart flavour than the sweet taste of plum tree fruits, which is why they’re chosen for food and drink products, including spirits, jams and jellies. That’s what makes damson vodka so popular – you’ll see the warm plum notes coming through in the vodka without being too sickly.
We produce our Damson No 12 by steeping the damsons in vodka for at least a year, or 12 months, hence the name of the product. Other drinks brands will usually create their products by steeping large volumes of their spirits for just a few weeks or months, achieving a less than distinct flavour.
We’re proud of the difference in taste our customers can enjoy with our high-quality drinks, noticing the great depth of flavour.
Whereas many fruit liqueurs will source artificial flavours to add a specific taste to a spirit liquor, our vodka has been infused with natural ingredients. It means our drinks don’t have that sickly sweet taste you see with another liquor that uses fruit liqueurs to emulate similar flavours.
It’s common for liqueurs to use additives to achieve their taste and add a much higher concentration of sugar in the recipe. This can also give fruit liqueurs a dark colour when compared to infused spirits, which tend to have a natural hue attained from the fruits chosen.
At Gattertop Drinks Co, we’re proud to use natural ingredients grown in our orchards and hedgerows, allowing authentic fruity flavours to come through without creating an artificial taste. Any sugar we add is done discreetly to trigger a beautiful balance between both tart and sweeter notes coming through, giving the vodka as smooth a texture as possible.
The perfect process we’ve developed to create our award-winning Damson No 12 has led to an outstanding taste not found in many other damson or plum based drinks. Made using a carefully crafted recipe, we believe we’ve scored the perfect balance when it comes to bringing out the delicate taste of the fruit without overwhelming the vodka.
Enjoy a glass of the English countryside, full of fruity notes and almond and marzipan accents from the damson stones. Our drinks are often chosen by those who love sloe gin, vodka and infused liquor products, and they can be enjoyed in a variety of ways. This includes pouring the Damson No 12 over ice to enjoy it on the rocks, mixing with soda or another mixer, or even using the product in your cocktail menus.
The colour of our seasonal damson fruits gives our product a beautiful red-jewel tone, helping it to stand out well among other spirit varieties. Our Damson No 12 has an ABV of 23%.
While our Damson No 12 vodka still falls well under the ‘botanical vodka’ umbrella thanks to its fruit-based source, our Botanic No 7 differs in the ingredients infused. We’ve carefully chosen the perfect blend of botanicals, all home-grown at Gattertop, seasonally picked and distilled with our premium grain spirit. The authentic flavours in each bottle use seasonal ingredients in small batches to produce an exceptional taste every time.
The distinct and delicious flavour profile of Botanic No 7 (ABV 38%) is achieved using a delicate recipe of seven different botanicals. This includes blossom from our damson and apple trees, herbs such as rosemary and basil, lemon, elderflower and nettle plants. These can all be found on our ancient land, from our garden, orchards and hedgerows to our fields and country woodlands.
Our natural ingredients have been carefully cultivated across the fertile land at Gattertop before being distilled via a copper pot still method with our grain spirit to produce a beautiful flavour profile. Botanical spirits are the perfect way to experience the natural flavours of the British countryside, opening up your palate to experience something special.
From our environmentally-friendly business processes to establishing long-term targets for 2021 and beyond, we’re paving the way as a sustainable spirit brand. We believe that to lessen our negative impact on the environment and climate, companies must look at every stage of their product cycles, from production methods to packaging, as well as finding other ways to give back to the local community. Producing just one bottle of a spirit can consume and release energy, including methods for picking ingredients and how products are shipped when an order is placed.
By using organic processes, our delicious Damson No 12 and Botanic No 7 are produced using as natural methods as possible, minimising the application of any artificial chemical fertilisers and pesticides. This helps our large size landscape to prosper, ensuring our soil stores carbon in the earth, plants and fruit rather than releasing it into the atmosphere.
We complete our production methods by hand, ensuring we aim for zero waste at every round of the process, thinking about how we use any leftover products we create. For example, we add our damsons to jellies and jams.
We’re also looking to partner with other eco-conscious brands to form more links in the local community, share our knowledge and find ways to take our sustainability promise forward.
Working closely with our country environment, we maintain healthy habitats for our local wildlife and want to preserve our orchards and trees for the future. We want to support charities with links to our ethos to give back with every bottle of Damson No 12 and Botanic No 7 sold on our website. Please let us know if you’d like to partner with us.
We also hope to become part of the UK Woodland Carbon Guarantee scheme announced in 2018. It aims to speed up woodland tree planting rates in the country with a target for the permanent removal of CO2 from the atmosphere.
We’re committed to reinvesting in Britain’s tree orchards, which has seen a decline in the last 60 years by almost two-thirds. We continue to keep planting more trees, and our team uses what’s available on our land, while completing most of our manufacturing processes by hand. We want to work with partners who aim to safeguard the local landscape, ensuring we do everything we can to preserve our tree orchards and environment.
Our process uses as many recyclable materials as possible to reduce waste, sourcing them from reliable and sustainable companies. This includes our glass bottles, cardboard boxes, recycled paper for our labels and wood wool packaging with the aim of making sure everything can be recycled.
Another one of our goals is to reduce our carbon footprint and greenhouse emissions every year. We hope that we can become fully carbon neutral with the production of our spirits, resulting in a zero net release of carbon dioxide. We also reduce our food miles as much as we can by performing processes on-site at Gattertop wherever possible.
We’re looking ahead to see the good we can still achieve in 2021. This includes:
From the delicious taste of our award-winning Damson No 12 to our distinctive Botanic No 7, there are lots of great reasons to choose our spirits.
If you’d like to place a website order for any size bottles or gift packages, you can do so now by heading to our online shop. All products sold come in beautiful packaging, and we provide next day delivery to many locations to ensure they’re with you well within the time you need them. However, please be aware that delivery times can vary depending on where you live and the national situation.
To email, use our contact page for all the information you need, including PR, marketing and trade enquiries.
Rights Reserved to Gattertop Drinks Co.
[/read]