Whittaker’s is a distillery, supplier and exporter of handcrafted and award-winning craft gins and spirits. Whittaker’s use locally-made bespoke stills, only the best natural ingredients and always goes the extra mile to ensure excellence. We are currently the only distillery in the UK as far as we know that are using handmade, Yorkshire made stills
Company Description:
Nestled in the wild moorlands of Nidderdale, family-run Whittaker’s is an artisan distillery with a passion for creating award-winning craft gins and spirits using natural ingredients and spring water.
Nestled amidst the wild moorlands and medieval dry-stone walled pastures of Nidderdale in North Yorkshire sits Harewell House Farm, home to Whittaker’s family-run artisan distillery. Naturally, this idyllic setting inspires everything they do. The hare on the packaging is the same hare that can be spied running in the nearby fields. The water comes from the farm’s natural sources. Whittaker’s use locally-made bespoke stills, only the best natural ingredients and always goes the extra mile to ensure excellence.
A small family distillery in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales using locally sourced botanicals where possible, handcrafted at our family farm.
We macerate all our berries for 24 hours prior to distillation. The spirit is distilled using the London Dry Gin process to produce a truly first-class gin. After distillation, it is then diluted using our natural Harewell water source to bring the ABV to 42% and left to settle and let the essential oils marry together before being hand bottled, batch numbered and labelled producing a truly authentic handmade gin.
Our stills are all called Jezebel named after our daughters Jessica and Isabella. Our most recent stills which are 300 litres we had made by Tadweld in Tadcaster so we are currently the only distillery in the UK as far as we know that are using handmade, Yorkshire made stills.
Our original 100-litre stills were imported from Bourbon Country in Kentucky from a well known USA supplier Hill Billy Stills.
