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Silent Pool

Situated on the Albury Estate in the heart of the Surrey Hills, the distillery sits adjacent to its namesake, The Silent Pool, a tranquil body of water that dates back to The Ice Age. Distilled from 24 different botanicals, which are collected where possible from the local area, Silent Pool Gin uses Bosnian juniper berries, liquorice root, cassia bark, orris, and bergamot, alongside honey sourced from a neighbouring beekeeper in its secret recipe. The distillers work closely with local farms and fruit producers in the area and uses their leftover fruit to make limited edition small batch gins including blackberry and damson gin, apricot aperitivo, and greengage gin.

The Silent Pool distillery tour takes visitors around the renovated barns that now house the bespoke copper stills, down to the banks of the Silent Pool, and culminates in a tasting of the award-winning Silent Pool gins, and a number of the small batch range of gins, cordials and aperitivos. In 2021 Silent Pool launched Green Man Woodland gin – the first

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