Episode 12 - Tristan Jorgensen from South Ormsby Estate (Massingberd-Mundy Distillery)

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News

• Hello and Welcome to Episode 12
• Today I am chatting with our first distiller on the programme about his career and his current role as Head Distiller at the Massingberd-Mundy distillery located on the South Ormsby Estate.
• Tristan has been in the spirits business since 2005 where he started at the Laphroaig distillery on the island of Islay, Scotland
• Now has two gins under his belt
• Laura from Lavaspirits had an amazing launch. So amazing to be involved last week. Thank you to you the gin community for your support and praise.
• If you listen in a podcast directory and could spare a few moments of time it would be great to have a review.
• Ian Paget from the Logo Geek is coming on next week so if you have any questions about logo design or branding please submit your questions

Gin Recommendation

• This weeks recommendation is The Botanist
• If you want to follow this brand then follow @thebotanist on Instagram. They are amazing. They are always doing lives about the ingredients they have sourced. On World Gin day they tracked where people were making cocktails all around the world.
• The bottle is really interesting not for the shape. It is the fact it has all 22 botanical latin names inscribed on the outside of the bottle. This creates quite a tactile feel when you pick it up to pour the second one !!!
• The nose of the gin can only be described as botanical. It’s not the in your face nose you get from a London Dry Gin.
• The taste well what can I say other than 22 botanicals hit your tongue all at the same time but they do so in unison. I have to say this is one of my favourite botanicals.
• I think it is quite versatile and can be used with most tonics. It would also work with cocktails and I think it would work even as a dry martini albeit a bit decadent.

Tristan Jorgensen from South Ormsby Estate (Massingberd-Mundy Distillery)

Career

• Moved to Islay, Scotland after a few holidays
• Started in Laphroaig distillery as production operative
• Moved back to Cheltenham and had chance meeting which led to working at Chase Distillery in Hereford where he was one of two distillers
• Then moved on to Newton House in Yeovil as distiller London Dry
• Consulted at Viper Gin and Dartmoor Whiskey
• Finally came to Massingberd-Mundy

Massingberd-Mundy Distillery

• Wanted distiller to come and build distillery from scratch
• Given opportunity to move family to Lincolnshire
• Still building. Started in August 2019.
• Got new packaging
• Getting sales
• Licensing took 6-7 months

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