THE Dyfi Distillery which specialises in artisan gins has opened for business at the Corris Craft Centre becoming the first commercial distillery in the region.

Within days of opening, its first batch of Dyfi Original Gin had sold out which prompted family members to be drafted in to prepare botanicals by hand.

The business is owned and run by brothers Pete and Danny Cameron with input from both of their families.

Pete, a forager and beekeeper with a scientific background, has lived in the Dyfi Valley for 35 years, and runs a small hill farm there with his wife.

Danny is a wine and spirits professional with 30 years’ experience, including as an international-standard judge, and the two started planning the distillery two years ago.

Pete said: “The Dyfi Valley matrix has been recognised by UNESCO as a rare example of a Biosphere Reserve since 2012, and this gives us local access to both amazing water quality and a diversity of botanicals that we can forage sustainably to make very distinctive gin. “We then devised some fairly bespoke methods to create something extra special.”

See the full story in this Thursday’s Meirionnydd edition of the Cambrian News