Artisan Welsh distilleries | Penderyn and Dyfi

Pete Cameron has been foraging, farming and bee-keeping in the Dyfi valley for 25 years. His brother Danny is an international expert in the wine and spirits industry. “We thought it would be fascinating to see if we could combine our respective skills,” says Danny. The Dyfi Distillery was born.

“Gin was the obvious route, because both of us are interested in producing something that tastes of where it comes from,” says Danny. “We’ve got this amazing botanical diversity here. It’s a forager’s paradise.”

Dyfi’s Pollination gin, which uses 20 locally-foraged botanicals, won the best UK gin at the Great British Food Awards in 2017 – and became the first gin to retain the title in 2018. They've kept the momentum going winning three medals at the 2020 World Gin Awards - 'Best Welsh Dry Gin' with its Dyfi Original, while Pollination Gin scooped a gold medal and Hibernation Gin was awarded a silver.

Even so, Dyfi cheerfully admit that they’re never going to be a global brand. “We are a genuinely small artisan craft distiller, and our process is very long-winded,” says Danny. “We’re not commercially efficient in that respect. We’re 60:40 distillers and foragers. I think we’d fail if all we wanted to do was become a behemoth and take over the world. That doesn’t really chime with the values of us as a family, or as a business. It should be about promoting sustainability in all its forms.”

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