Fynoderee Manx Dry Gin Winter Edition - 70cl Bottle

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Glen Auldyn is a picturesque glen situated a mile outside of Ramsey. It is a narrow valley with a river of the same name. Glen Auldyn translates to “ Glen of Mountain Streams”. Its source is high up near the Island’s tallest peak, the mountain of “ Snaefell”, and descends steeply through ruggedly beautiful scenery, including protected peat bogs and deciduous woodland. It eventually joins the Island’s longest river, “the Sulby”, which flows through Ramsey harbour and out to the Irish Sea. So how about the gin? Well, it just shows you how tastes can differ! The bottle promises a rejuvenating drink, like a “clean, refreshing Manx breeze'” [‘Manx’ means something relating to the Isle of Man, by the way]. We’d definitely not argue with that description. This is a super gin – warming and really rewarding. But we didn’t get the sweet lemon-sherbet finish that the label also suggests. After the juniper, we found instead a really pleasing pepperiness to the gin. We also got what we thought was the gorse shining through. It’s a complex and smooth gin, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. How to serve Afterwards, we will retire to The Fyn Bar for a tutored tasting from our range of Manx Dry Gins , Manx Bumbee Vodka and Glashtyn Spiced Manx Rum where you will also be able to browse the shop shelf for some treats to take home. Manx independence carries through in many aspects of life here on the Island and this freedom will allow The Fynoderee Distillery to operate and develop its own high standards of production and experimentation. Our unique blends feature Manx grown and hand foraged botanicals and are distilled, bottled and served at The Fynoderee Distillery in Ramsey.

Our RNLI Edition Gin has been created in partnership with the RNLI to raise funds and commemorate 200 years since the Institution was founded on the Isle of Man. Accessibility: We are very sorry that our premises are not currently fully wheelchair accessible, and our standard tours will commence on the Mezzanine (first floor) of The Fyn Bar. We can make private arrangements for an accessible tour if needed, however, please note our bathroom facilities are not wheelchair accessible. A Yorkshireman by birth, William Hillary came to the Isle of Man in 1808 and eventually established a home at Fort Anne, overlooking Douglas Bay. This was an ideal vantage point from which to appreciate the dangers faced by sailors in the treacherous Irish Sea. John Kelly's dictionary has suggested an alternate etymology, stemming from fenney, 'invaders, wild Irish'. [13] The term has also been used in the sense of "satyr" in the 1819 Manx translation of the Bible (Isaiah 34:14) by Kelly. [6] General description [ edit ]The idea of starting up a Manx gin distillery had been with us (local couple, Paul and Tiffany Kerruish) for a number of years before we met Gerard, who happily decided to join us in setting up The Fynoderee Distillery. A character in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen ( Alan Garner), a young-adult fantasy set in Alderley Edge in Cheshire, is called Fenodyree.

Weeks went by, until one evening Udereek explained to Kitty that the next night was to be the “Royal Festival of the Harvest Moon” in Glen Rushen and that it was decreed that all Elfin kind were to attend the festivities until the moon had set over South Barrule. Kitty teased Udereek, suggesting he would have such a good time at the ball that he would forget all about her and instead be seduced by a beautiful fairy maiden. Affronted, Udereek insisted this could never happen... To prove how much Kitty meant to him, he would make his escape from the Harvest Festival early (after only three hours had passed), and he would come looking for Kitty as usual under their Blue Rowan Tree.

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Shake off the winter chill and step into our world this December at The Fynoderee Distillery, Ramsey, for a festive dining experiences with real Manx spirit.

Besides herding animals as just mentioned, reaping [21] and threshing overnight may be added to the list of chores he performs for the farmer, [22] [23] as well as herding sheep on a snowy night. [23] The fenodyree may also repair fish-nets or the boat, according to lore among fishermen. [21] A character in Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper, who befriends and does magical favors for the titular character. The nearest bus stop is just down the road, outside the old Britannia Hotel on Waterloo Road and the Ramsey Bus Station is a short walk along Albert Terrace. We review Fynoderee Manx Dry Gin (Spring Edition). What does this gin from the Isle of Man, with locally foraged botanicals, have to offer?Train (1845), pp.149, also repeated in Moore (1891), p.56, and less precisely in Keightley, The Fairy Mythology (1880), p. 402. Campbell, J. F. (1860), Popular Tales of the West Highlands, vol.1, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, ISBN 9780810334588 As enthusiastic and knowledgeable gin drinkers, we had become increasingly frustrated that there was no small-batch gin producer on the Island when the botanical landscape and “Biosphere” was so well suited to producing an original and high quality product using locally foraged ingredients. Deciding to take matters in to our own hands, a confluence of events in our lives gradually turned a pipe-dream into a reality when we met Gerard who worked for a successful small batch distiller in England (Masons Dry Yorkshire Gin) . A resulting friendship and working relationship with Gerard has now brought together the team that is ‘Fynoderee’. As a partner business to the UNESCO Biosphere Isle of Man, our ethos is to operate The Fynoderee Distillery in a way that helps to protect natural resources, develops our local economy, promotes our unique cultural heritage, and engages with our Island community.

a b c Killip, I. M. (1966), "The Fynnoderee and the L'il Loghtan", The Journal of the Manx Museum, 7: 59, groups several of these anecdotes together into a continuous narrative, and includes also the fynnoderee' s most notable exploit, his gathering-in of the sheep. Another tale describes the Fenodyree doing the farmer's work of rounding up the wethers ( gelded ram sheep) that grazed on Snaefell (mountain) and bringing them into the pen; in the process, the fairy mistakenly brought in a hare which he mistook for a little ram. [20] A rendition of this is incorporated into the story cobbled together published as "The Fynoderee of Gordon" by Sophia Morrison, where the fairy herds the sheep into a "cogee house" (a weaving house [31]), and mingled among the sheep is a big hare he mistook for a Loaghtan. [30] This has been described as "the most notable" exploit by the Fenodyree in Morrison's tale. [25] Stone mover [ edit ] Although heartbroken and fallen from grace, the Fynoderee is known for good-naturedly assisting those who he befriends, and many are the tales of the hairy fellow’s beneficence. Over the years and by moonlight, he has helped farmers to reap and sow, moved boulders to assist builders and mended many fishermen’s nets on the quaysides around our Island. Once upon a time there was a little juniper bush, the very last of its kind on the Isle of Man. It lived up high at the top Glen Auldyn in the north of the Island where it was discovered and well-meaningly transplanted to the Milntown Estate at the bottom of the glen, where very sadly it didn’t survive. Sir William Hillary is buried on The Isle of Man at St Georges Church in Douglas. More can be found out about him here.The motif of the disdain for the gift of clothing also occurs in other tales where the fenodyree helps the farmer, and pronounces a similar phrase, "Though this place is thine, the great Glen of Rushen is not", and disappears somewhere. [20] John Rhys supposes that it is to Glen Rushen he has gone off to. [20] [c] Parallels [ edit ] Many years ago... Kitty Kerruish was a young and beautiful girl who lived with her father in a small cottage surrounded by fuchsia bushes up at the top of Glen Auldyn in the North of the Isle of Man. Her father was a tailor and the men of Ramsey would visit the cottage to have their suits made for them. Even though Kitty’s father was not considered the best tailor in the world, he still did good trade as the men would happily trudge up the many miles along the gorse lined footpaths from Ramsey in the hope of getting a glance of the beautiful Kitty Kerruish - and to even make a play for her hand in marriage. Kitty, however, was so devoted to the needs of her father, who was frail and in need of her help, that she turned away her many suitors with the excuse of being unavailable for marriage while her father was still alive. a b Evans-Wentz, W. Y. (1911). The fairy-faith in Celtic countries. London and New York: H. Frowde. pp. 120, 129, 131.