Top Scottish gins to celebrate Burns Night

If you’ve any tartan in your wardrobe, now’s the time to dig it out and fire up that cèilidh playlist. The 25th of January has rolled round once again and it’s time for Burns Night, the annual celebration of the poet Robert Burns.

This usually involves a Burns Supper of haggis, neeps and tatties, accompanied by poetry addressing said ‘great chieftain o’ the puddin’-race’ and a recital of the Selkirk Grace. If you’re enjoying the traditional meal, you may also want a dram or two of whisky to accompany it. Or, for a change, some Scottish rum.

But what if you’re more of a gin drinker? You might think of whisky as Scottish and gin as English but distillers in both nations have been busy turning that on its head for years now. Scotland boasts a wealth of innovative gin distillers putting out gins that celebrate botanical ingredients found north of the border.