The Echlinville Distillery in County Down is at the forefront of Ireland’s spirits renaissance. Echlinville became the first new distillery in Northern Ireland for more than 125 years when the first spirit trickled from its stills in August 2013.

Echlinville has since made a name for itself as the home of some of Ireland’s best known premium spirits including the iconic Dunville’s Irish Whiskey, Echlinville Single Estate Irish Pot Still Gin, Jawbox Gin and Bán Poitín, which have together won 28 global awards in less than six years.

A family owned farm distillery, Echlinville is one of only a handful of ‘field to glass’ distilleries in Ireland or the UK. All of their Echlinville Whiskey and Echlinville Gin is distilled from barley grown, harvested and floor malted on their distillery farm near the shores of Strangford Lough, where the rich soil, saline air and mild micro-climate create the perfect conditions for producing spirit with distinctive character and flavour.

The soul of any spirit is its connection to the place where it is made. Echlinville are proud of their roots in the Ards Peninsula, and that sense of place is the essence of their premium spirits. Their homegrown barley and locally foraged gin botanicals, including Strangford Lough seaweed and indigenous whin bush petals, give Echlinville’s spirits a true connection to the place where they are made.

The Echlinville team love to share their devotion to quality spirits with visitors from around the world. The Echlinville Tour & Tipple offers an insight into the workings of Northern Ireland’s only farm distillery – a guided tour of the beautiful Echlinville still house and whiskey maturation warehouse followed by two drinks from the distillery’s range of award winning whiskeys, gins, poitín or vodka. Private tours and bespoke group packages are also available on request.