Drumshanbo Gunpowder Gin

Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin is as much a passion project as it is a plucky young Irish gin brand. Brainchild of three-decade drinks industry veteran P.J. Rigney (who once worked as executive director at Baileys), the gin is a mini-travelogue of sorts, its 12 distinct spices and botanicals a record of Rigney’s career-long world travel, everything he learned about the eastern practice of distilling herbs and botanicals. Nor is that just token eclecticism; Drumshanbo is about bringing the journey home, quite literally bottling the fruits of discovery of a curious mind.  The result is a gin that tastes uncommonly good thanks to an uncommon marquee ingredient, combines drinking traditions from cultures 5,000-plus miles apart, pays homage to a love story when two paths crossed in the local iron mines and, incidentally, helped one small Irish town called Drumshanbo find new economic opportunity.