Mountain Strength Gin

The Lakes Distillery

£38.5

SOLD OUT online Limited availability instore at the distillery. Please our Distillery Boutique, Booths independent retailers in the Lake District to pick up a bottle. This limited edition Lakes Gin celebrates the power of the Lake District landscape and the fortitude of the mountain rescue teams who keep us safe. Elevating the flavours of the classic Lakes Gin, this Skiddaw limited edition release proudly supports Lake District Mountain Rescue teams with £5 from every bottle*. Bottled at a peak ABV of 51%, this represents the equivalent increase in mountain rescue incidents in the Lake Distric

The Lakes Distillery's own words, read from their page.

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Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as THE LAKES DISTILLERY COMPANY LIMITED, number 07769363. 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: "Our head office employs staff in finance, marketing, HR, and IT, amongst other roles." — names a location but no site or process, so this corroborates uk_hq more than operations. 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.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.