Distillery
Cotswolds
Dan Szor was a New York financier working in London before he settled in the Cotswolds, in the United Kingdom. Surrounded by fields of golden barley near his new home, he realised nobody was distilling it into whisky. In 2014 he opened Cotswolds Distillery on a derelict site to change that. Three years of trials later, in October 2017 the distillery released its Signature Single Malt, the first whisky ever distilled in the Cotswolds. Local barley grown across the surrounding countryside goes into every batch. The result is a spirit known for its fruity, orchard-driven character. Before the whisky came a gin, born from an unusual experiment. Dan's team distilled 150 individual botanicals and tested over 60 recipes before settling on one. That gin, Cotswolds Dry Gin, ended up becoming just as central to the distillery as the whisky it was built for.
