Special Reserve 101

Portobello Road Distillery

£59

Created to mark our 10th Birthday, our new limited edition bottling, Special Reserve 101 is the culmination of ten years of experiments in gin distilling. It is our attempt to make an innovative gin, pushing the envelope in every way we can, whilst remaining within the boundaries laid out in the London Dry Gin regulations. It is a gin that we're incredibly proud of, a gin for gin lovers, still Portobello but Portobello with bells on... just in time for Christmas. Made with rich British potato spirit as a base, we reverse age (okay we've made that term up) the spirit, resting it in oak before d

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UK company
Registered at Companies House as PORTOBELLO ROAD DRINKS LIMITED, number 15964768. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Not yet checked.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
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