Meet the Maker of Goldings Gins
Created by a pharmacist with a passion for gin. Science and art have collided to produce these truly exceptional small batch artisan gins.
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My fully licensed distillery is based in my home village of Stoke Golding, Leicestershire. I use traditional methods to create my unique London Dry gins.
Each bottle is individually produced by hand, with precision and care, in batches of no more than 40 bottles at a time.
After 32 years of working as an NHS pharmacist, I retired from the day job in March 2024. You don’t need to be a pharmacist to make gin, but it has certainly helped me.
I started enjoying gin back in 2008 and a few years later I started dreaming of making my own gin. My aim was to launch a distillery that would eventually carry me forwards into retirement, after a long and fulfilling career in the NHS.
In 2017 I went on a course on how to open a gin distillery, and then the business planning began. I got my first licences in 2019 allowing me to start recipe development. The pandemic meant I had to focus on the NHS day job, meaning I wasn’t ready to launch my Signature London Dry Gin until March 2022.
My gins are juniper forwards and complex. I combine my scientific reasoning with creativity and flair, and a lot of experimentation, to make a gin that is part of me.
I don’t expect everyone to like my gin, but I do hope that you will love it as much as I do.
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David Tait