A South Ceredigion distillery has scooped nine awards at this year’s Gin Masters.

In the Welsh Wind distillery has been distilling award-winning spirits since January 2018 for other brands and has now won two Gin Masters awards for their own brand gins. Seven other gins developed and distilled at the distillery have also won gold and silver medals.

Alex Jungmayr, co-owner and director at In The Welsh Wind, said: “We are thrilled that nine of the gins we distil here have won such important medals at The Gin Masters Awards this year, including both our Signature Style gins.

“We are a young distillery and team based in Cardigan who are pushing the boundaries of taste and innovation. We are pleased to receive these accolades.

“Our Signature Style Dry Gin was inspired by the cargoes that landed on the Ceredigion coast at New Quay in the 19th century, and it is filled with delicious flavours that have long been associated with Wales. Every ingredient has been meticulously selected to reflect what is at the heart of In The Welsh Wind.

“I was keen to develop a limited-edition cask-aged version of our Signature Style Gin so inspired by Spanish sherries that would have been landed in New Quay, I selected Palo Cortado casks and rested 400 litres of Signature Style in them. The casks lend beautiful almond notes and a rich colour to the gin.”

The distillery is also looking to expand after planning permission was granted earlier this year for a multi-million-pound development at their Tanygroes site.

The company said the expansion would “create new employment opportunities, as well as boost tourism in the area.

The distillery moved from its original premises in a renovated cowshed into the iconic Gogerddan Arms pub in March 2019.

The business exercised its option to purchase the premises in early 2020, taking ownership days before the first lockdown.

Although initially producing award-winning custom branded spirits for other businesses, the team at In the Welsh Wind released its first own-brand gin, In the Welsh Wind Signature Style, in summer 2020.

The distillery also produced over 30,000 litres of hand sanitiser in the first months of lockdown.

Alongside gin and hand sanitiser production, the distillery spent 2020 pioneering its ‘grain to glass’ single malt whisky project.