The Royal Family has launched Her Majesty the Queen’s favorite dry gin made with botanicals grown in her own garden for fans to enjoy.
Priced at £50 ($67) for a 50cl (oz) bottle, the batch of Sandringham Celebration Gin was made in a distillery on the estate in north Norfolk.
This is the third brand of spirit marketed by the Royal Family, including Prince Charles’ own organic Highgrove gin months after the Royal Collection Trust started selling a Buckingham Palace variety
The Sandringham gin, known as one of the most closely linked to the Queen, is flavored with leaves from myrtle plants and exotic Sharon fruit, both grown from Her Majesty’s 20,000 acres estate.
The dry gin is described as “The Sharon Fruit is grown in the Walled Garden on a sheltered wall at the end of what was a range of glass houses, built on the winnings of the famous racehorse, Persimmon, owned by King Edward VII.”
“The foliage from myrtle plants also grown on the Estate, originated from a cutting taken from Princess Alexandra’s wedding bouquet on her marriage to Prince Albert Edward, who later became King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.”
The Royal Collection Trust describes it as “the perfect festive drink”, and recommends that it is served with tonic, ice and a slice of lemon.
The bottles are being sold from the estate’s online store and will be available at the Sandringham gift shop as soon as it reopens after the Covid-19 restrictions are lifted.
The limited edition gin was produced by a local distillery Whatahoot, a company launched three years ago by Jason Crown and his wife Nicky.
The sales of the gin is expected to bring a much needed boost to the Trust after it sought voluntary redundancies and took a £22 million ($29 million) loan due to the coronavirus pandemic.