COMPETITION: Win gin!

See the June issue of Focus magazine (out with the Herald on Thursday) to be one of four readers to win two bottles of handcrafted gin by The Shakespeare Distillery.

The Shakespeare Distillery make two types of hand-crafted gin, Stratford Gin and Mulberry Gin. The company is offering four Focus readers the chance to win a bottle of each (a prize worth over £70). So you’ll be all set for the perfect summer drink.

Stratford Gin

Tudor England, the time of William Shakespeare was also a new creative era for spirit production. Stratford Gin is inspired by bygone pioneers who experimented with local home-grown flavours. Handcrafted in small batches in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire with authentic Tudor garden botanicals including rose, lemon balm, rosemary and old English lovage fused with the more familiar juniper, coriander and lemon peel; this truly is a modern gin with a twist of history.

Mulberry Gin is made by combining Mulberries with Stratford Gin and leaving them to steep for several months before decanting and bottling. The result is a deep rich fruity Gin ideal for sipping or using in cocktails. Mulberries are one of those fruits that you will never see in the supermarket as they are just too fragile. They drop from the trees and go to mush very easily, in fact they make the raspberry look like a real tough cookie. They impart a lovely flavour (think blackcurrant and blackberry) and it’s time they were brought back into people’s lives.