Guiding Star

Salcombe Gin

£65

Named ‘Guiding Star’ after a famous Salcombe Fruit Schooner built in 1874, this limited-edition cask finished sloe and damson gin has been developed in collaboration with Dirk Niepoort, one of the world’s most iconic port producers. This gin is deep crimson in colour with a slight brick-red tinge from the influence of the tawny port cask in which it was finished in. On the palate it is rich and balanced with flavours of cherry, blackberries, tart redcurrants and spiced marzipan. The finish is tart with an underlying sweetness from the lees of the Niepoort Colheita 1997 tawny port previously ag

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Where this comes from

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UK company
Registered at Companies House as SALCOMBE DISTILLING COMPANY LTD, number 09140632. 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
Stated by the company: "Every bottle of our exceptional gin is carefully distilled at the water's edge in Salcombe, South Devon" Source.
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.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
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Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
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