Forest Of Dean Home Crafted Gin
Woodside Distillery
Cinderford, Gloucestershire
GL14 2PH
W O O D S I D E
DISTILLERY
Forest of Dean Home Crafted
G i n
The Forest of Dean, a timeless landscape of woodland and wildlife, the perfect place to achieve serenity.
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So, we've crafted a gin that captures the spirit of the Dean's surroundings, in both taste and design.
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Through passion, determination and research…of course! We've achieved our dream. Woodside is here with a small batch distillery producing quality, hand crafted gin.
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Let your journey, with Woodside, be-gin.
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Our Journey...
Despite the difficulties of 2020 and COVID, Forest of Dean-based Jason Morgan is hoping to finish the year with a flourish! Launching Woodside Distillery with his first gin, utilising flavours inspired by the local area.
While Jason is more experienced in the motor trade, working within the family business of Winner Garage Skoda and Cinderford MG, he saw the first lockdown in April as an opportunity to try something new. “More recent projects have involved building and preparing rally cars, but lockdown had me thinking of a new challenge and looking into distilling my own gin came to mind.” Jason explained.
With what will be the only distillery based within the 42 square miles of the Forest of Dean, Woodside Distillery is named after the street on which Jason lives. With this in mind, the branding is based on the beautiful settings around the Forest of Dean, using Oak leaves, Ferns and Foxgloves to illustrate links with the area.
The first lockdown encouraged many to take up new activities, for Jason it involved the building of his own distillery and with gin being the favoured beverage, it was an obvious choice to start with. “It has required quite some research but I’ve been so happy with what I have created, I have decided to take it further with a business venture and launch of Woodside Gin. The gin I have created gives subtle tones of juniper, and citrus leads the nose, while sweet forest flavourings of violet and hawthorn berries lead the taste, leaving wild dandelion and mugwort base notes resting on the pallet.”
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Over the years, Jason has developed more flavours of gin in his distillery. He has been incredibly proud of the launch of the Blood Orange flavour and the Strawberries and Cream flavour. Hopefully there will be more to come in the future, so keep a look out for any new arrivals.
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In 2024, we welcomed our new member of the Woodside team, Emma Jackson. Emma is also from the beautiful Forest of Dean and she too has been excited to invest her spare time into Woodside Distillery as the new sales manager.
“My aim is to make sure that Woodside Gin is in as many shops and drinking establishments as we can get it into within the Forest of Dean and surrounding areas. I want everyone to be able to taste this delicious gin, it’s not to be missed.”
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If you are a business owner from
the Forest of Dean and surrounding areas who would like to join our team of local shops and drinking establishments who already stock our gin, than please do get in touch. We love to support local and we hope you do too.
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Should you wish to be apart of our journey or have any enquiries
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