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Micil Irish Gin wins big at top gin awards

The distillers behind October’s Gin of the Month took home Best Contemporary Irish Gin at the World Gin Awards.

By 
Lucinda Beeman
April 28, 2022
1 min read

Micil Irish Gin came away with the gong for Best Contemporary Irish Gin. Inspired by the Ó Griallais family’s heritage of poitín distillation, Micil Irish Gin features 17 botanicals, including four handpicked from the local area: bog bean, bog myrtle, heather and hawberry. 


These key botanicals were also featured in October 2021’s Gin of the Month: Micil Spiced Orange Gin. Distilled exclusively for Craft Gin Club members, this beautiful autumnal edition beat out hundreds of other gins for a coveted Gin of the Month slot. Craft Gin Club’s expert tasting team tries hundreds of gins for every 12 chosen.  

Micil Distillery co-founder Pádraic Ó Griallais said: “We’re delighted to win at such prestigious awards, judged blind by our peers in the Spirits industry, and we hope our portfolio continues to be recognised for our flavour-forward style of production. We’re honoured to be compared alongside many of the other Irish winners who have been elevating the gin category in Ireland by distilling their own unique recipes of Irish Gin.”

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