50,000+ York Gin bottles have just been delivered to members of UK’s biggest gin club

Posties across the UK have been delivering tens of thousands of York Gin bottles this week. York Gin is March’s Gin of the Month with the UK’s biggest gin subscription club.

Posties across the UK have been delivering tens of thousands of York Gin bottles this week.

York Gin is March’s Gin of the Month with the UK’s biggest gin subscription club.

Its exclusive Jorvik Spring gin is now with over 50,000 Craft Gin Club members - along with other Yorkshire treats.

The club is the biggest in the UK, shipping tens of thousands of bottles each month to gin lovers. In 2016, its founders appeared on TV’s Dragons Den - and four of the dragons wanted to invest!

Craft Gin Club's expert panel taste-tests and assesses hundreds of spirits from all over the world every year to choose just twelve Gins of the Month - so it’s a real achievement for York Gin looks to secure one of those spots.

Says co-founder Emma Godivala: ‘This is a massive deal for a small craft distillery like York Gin. 

‘We are already seeing loads of social media posts from all over the UK - with people across the land loving our gin. The Craft Gin Club is a towering name in the gin industry - and we’re absolutely thrilled to be their Gin of the Month for March. 

‘We’ve tried to showcase the best of York and Yorkshire with this Jorvik Spring gin. So it has heather and lavender from the moors, liquorice from Pontefract cakes and ginger from Yorkshire Parkin. Even though I say so, it’s a beautifully balanced gin with all sorts of complexity. It also has a real freshness about it - and definitely says “Spring is in the air”.

Emma added: ‘It’s a major PR coup for York, too. GINNED! - the magazine that accompanies the gin - goes into some detail about how brilliant York is to visit. We hope we’ll see lots of gin lovers making the trip to York to see how wonderful our city is!’

Each month, the boxes sent to members contain a large bottle of gin along with their magazine and treats and snacks. This month, as well as their exclusive York Gin bottle, Craft Gin Club members are receiving Yorkshire treats including Tame & Wild drinks, Yorkshire Crisps and Whitaker’s chocolates. The club’s website at craftginclub.co.uk devotes lots of space during the rest of the month to York Gin Jorvik Spring, and their social media channels @craftginclub - including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter - are also full of York and York Gin for the next few weeks.

About Craft Gin Club

Jon Hulme and John Burke, business school friends who met while studying in Madrid, hit upon the idea for Craft Gin Club while reminiscing over some of their favourite Spanish-style gin and tonics in a London bar.

The pair founded Craft Gin Club in January 2015 with the mission to reinvent the way gin lovers discover and enjoy new gins, all while supporting amazing craft producers. Little could they imagine the incredible gin journey they had in store!

In the summer of 2016, Jon and John appeared on BBC Dragons’ Den, attracting offers from four Dragons before winning the investment of entrepreneur Sarah Willingham, who now works closely with the company as a member of its board.

Craft Gin Club can now lay claim to being the biggest (and our members would say the best!) gin subscription club in the UK. Even as we continue to grow, the same driving principles that led Jon and John to found the company still remain – helping smaller, craft distillers reach a wider audience with their amazing products and, at the same time, delivering the best gins in the world to the UK’s gin lovers. Whichever way you look at it, it’s a gin-gin situation!

About York Gin

York Gin make some of the world's best gins in their sustainable York distillery (the only distillery in the ancient city.) 

They use traditional methods perfected over centuries of English gin making to make their range of dry gins. 

York Gin are inspired by their city's incredible two thousand-year past and gin making's centuries of stories and legends. 

The company motto is 'History in the Tasting'. 

York Gin regularly win gold medals at the world's top spirits competitions. 

Most recently, all four gins (London Dry, Old Tom, Outlaw Navy Strength and Chocolate & Orange) entered into the 2022 Great Taste Awards won stars. London Dry won a coveted two-star award.

York Gin Grey Lady (inspired by the Theatre Royal's ghost) won Gold at the London Spirits Competition 2022.  Their Outlaw Navy Strength (inspired by Guy Fawkes and Dick Turpin) and Old Tom (a collaboration with the Michelin-starred Star Inn, Harome) both won Best English titles at the World Gin Awards in 2021. 

As well as making gin, the company also run two shops in York.  The original York Gin shop on Pavement won Shop of the Year at the 2022 Visit York Tourism Awards. The other shop is in York's historic railway station. Both shops sell the whole range of large bottles, gin gift sets and locally-made souvenirs and gifts.  

York Gin also gin tasting classes after hours in the city centre shop. They book up very quickly!  All York Gin's bottles and packaging are plastic free and made in Yorkshire.  The company is powered by green energy, uses electric vehicles and buys locally wherever possible.