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Batch Whinberry Gin: Lancashire's Wild Bilberries in a World-Class Distillery

Batch Whinberry Gin: Lancashire's Wild Bilberries in a World-Class Distillery

7 /10
EDITOR
Distillery: Batch Spirits
ABV: 43% ABV
Price: £38

Tasting Notes

Nose

Berries and sweetness with distinctive Batch spice — good waft of juniper beneath the fruit

Palate

Massively fruity, round, soft, slightly jammy and syrupy — peppery juniper backbone, complex rather than sugary sweet, dryness and spice still present

Finish

Dry and spicy with fruit lingering — the Batch signature ensuring this is gin with fruit, not fruit cordial

First Impressions

Batch Whinberry Gin uses whinberries — Lancashire's local name for bilberries or blaeberries — picked from the moors around Burnley and infused into their award-winning gin base. Complex, fruity, and not sugary sweet at all.

Tasting

The nose shows berries and sweetness with distinctive Batch spice and juniper. On the palate, massively fruity, round and soft with slightly jammy texture — peppery juniper backbone keeping it complex rather than sweet. The finish is dry and spicy with fruit lingering.

The Bottom Line

Batch Whinberry earns a 7 for a Lancashire heritage fruit gin. The whinberries add local colour — literally and figuratively — and the World's Best Gin distillery ensures proper gin character survives. Works beautifully with ginger ale, Prosecco, or neat.

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Amelie Farnham
Amelie Farnham
Gin & Botanicals Editor

Amelie came to gin via botany — she studied plant sciences at Edinburgh before realising her real interest lay in what happened to botanicals after they reached the still. She has visited over a hundr...

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