Six Dogs Karoo Gin
Six Dogs Karoo Gin was the very first product to come out of Six Dogs Distillery. It took exactly 187 iterations and over two years of trials to get this Gin perfectly balanced and delicious.
The farm where the Gin is made, intersects three different bioregions including the succulent Karoo. It is from here that the Karoo thorn flower and wild lavender are gathered, which makes this Gin unique amongst all the gins in the world.
A neutral cane spirit is used as the base for our Six Dogs Karoo Gin as it doesn’t have much smell or taste, which means the aromas of the Karoo botanicals can come through beautifully.
Six Dogs Karoo is a delicate and balanced Gin of twelve select botanicals, including the Karoo thorn flower (known as a ‘doringboom’ or ‘soetdoring’ in Afrikaans), wild lavender and farm-grown lemon buchu. Known as South Africa’s “miracle herb”, lemon buchu is an ingenious plant with a refreshing citrus flavour. Buchu is known for its health benefits and is often used to treat inflammation.
Six Dogs Karoo is a London Dry style gin. Sip it and you will pick up the paired notes of juniper and wild lavender that introduce the Karoo. What follows is a fresh medley of citrus including limes, mandarins and farm-grown lemon buchu.
Botanicals: Karoo thorn flower, Acacia thorn tree, wild lavender, juniper, angelica, cassia and chamomile
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The Six Dogs story begins in a garden shed, a space that until Gin came along belonged to Charles Bryant’s six dogs – Obelix, Cloud, Bodrum, Flea, Blue and Midget. The aim was to create something totally unique and really quite special, using a custom still forged from the bones of a copper geyser.
No one really knows where the Karoo in South Africa begins and ends. We do know, however, that in our little valley of De Wet, nestled between the Breede River Valley and the Hex River Valley, the wild things grow. We use some of these wild plants in our Gin, also growing our own botanicals whilst supporting neighbouring farmers who grow specific fruit for us. Our Distillery was built with a view of the mountains from which we get the purest mountain water to make our Gin.
43% ABV, 750ml
