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Chris Goodrum (Gauntleys)

In 2007 Will Chase, the founder and managing director of Tyrrells the gourmet crisp manufacturer was crowned the regional winner in the Bank of Scotland’s Corporate Entrepreneur Challenge. He planned to use the £5m interest free loan to build a distillery at Rosemaund Farm, deep in the Herefordshire countryside. After a fact finding trip to America, visiting micro-distilleries he commissioned a handmade 60ft copper still from Germany. Apparently it is so tall that they had to add a tower to their old hop kiln building to fit it in! They believe that it is this height coupled with 42 bubble plates increases the reflux and thus produces the purest of vodka’s. The spirit is distilled three times, reaching an abv of 96%, when it is then cut with purified water from the aquifer beneath their apple orchards. Like the Leopold Bros vodka, the spirit is distilled in batches, with them producing around 3,500 bottles a week.

Will Chase is quoted as saying “We want to educate people in vodka; we don’t want them drinking it with coke.” I’ll definitely drink to that.

On the nose it is big, oily and powerful. Again quiet whisky-like with a lovely citrus note to balance its underlying starchy character. It is extremely clean with a hint of botanicals. On the palate it is soft and starchy, artesian, with a controlled rusticity. Very intense and flavourful with hints of citrus. Lovely length with a good, crisp finish.