Dark Gin – Kyro Distillery

Kyro Distillery’s Dark Gin

Dark Gin Kyro is a gin inspired by the northern climate. It is perfect to drink when you want to isolate yourself from the world, perhaps with loved ones. This gin, whose base is 100% rye with 17 different botanicals and spices, ages for a few months in wood. More precisely, it ages in new American white oak barrels.

The Tasting

The colour is golden; notes of vanilla alternate with fruity hints where the orange is distinguishable to close with spicy and juniper hints. The Dark Gin is pleasantly salty on the palate, the vanilla is perceived but also spices such as saffron and pepper to continue with fruits and close with a hint of honey.

For this gin, we recommend tasting it with apple juice or ginger ale but also try it neat if you love whiskey.

The history of the Kyro distillery

As often happens in Finland, great ideas are born in a sauna. It was in a sauna that five friends, Mikko, Jouni, Miika, Miko and Kalle, sipping a glass of whisky, thought it was time to found their distillery; it was 2014. The first thing they did was find a location, an old dairy full of cars; yes, cars because the dairy owners rented the place to a mechanic who fixed cars. Their business began, and they distilled whisky, which required time to refine. The five guys wanted to get out on the market quickly so they switched to distilling gin.

Their first batch of gin was awarded the best gin for the gin & tonic of 2015 and sold out in two days; since then, the road for the Kyrò distillery has been downhill.

The base of all Kyrö Gins is distillate rye with 16 dry botanicals and four freshly distilled botanicals. The botanicals are mostly native, cultivated or wild, such as meadowsweet, sea buckthorn, wild cranberry or birch leaves.