Magazine LALIQUE 2025

SPIRITS

Capturing The Glenturret: The Lens of David Yarrow The Glenturret’s timeless charm was magnificently captured by award-winning photographer David Yarrow and his love of storytelling. The series of black-and-white photographs offers a visual journey through the distillery’s history, blending past and present in a sequence of evocative images. Yarrow’s work, like The Glenturret itself, is an ode to Scotland’s

“The Glenturret, located on the banks of the River Turret, has a picture-perfect charm that eludes many working distilleries in 2024,” says Yarrow. “The owners wanted a love letter to its celebrated past; looking at old museum pictures, not much has changed in the façade and the courtyard over the last 120 years. Such is the local pride in the distillery, that attracting locals to work on the shoot was as easy as sampling their products when we were wrapped.”

The Aberturret Gin: A Tribute to Scottish Heritage

In keeping with The Glenturret’s tradition of innovation, The Aberturret Gin was created as a homage to the Estate’s Scottish roots. This small-batch, hand-crafted gin, named after the dower house, embodies the spirit of the Murray Clan, who took on juniper as a symbol of their bravery in battle. The gin’s complex flavour profile is enhanced by locally foraged botanicals, including sumac, chamomile, and pine, identified by Mark Donald, head chef at the two-Michelin starred The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant. Combining time honoured distilling techniques with these well-balanced flavours, The Aberturret Gin also adds The Glenturret Single Malt New Make Spirit to amplify its richness and complexity, bridging the heritage of gin with its origins in genever.

enduring traditions, providing a clear if somewhat surreal link to the workers’ own ancestry – many of their forebearers would have worked in the very same low-rise buildings – echoed by Yarrow’s own childhood spent close to the Crieff distillery.

©David Yarrow

Presented in a striking deep green bottle designed by Claudio Denz and Lalique’s Artistic and Creative Director Marc Larminaux, The Aberturret Gin has already started earning accolades, including a Gold Award at The World Gin Awards 2024 and a Master Medal in the Ultra Premium category at this year’s Spirits Business Gin Awards. Additionally, it won fulsome praise from Joel Harrison and Neil Ridley, authors of The World Atlas of Gin, for its connection to the Highlands and its “balanced, unctuous and rounded” flavour. A fitting tribute to the marriage of fine tradition and modern luxury that defines The Glenturret today.

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