Thunderflower Distillery is an award-winning micro-distillery in Devon making small-batch craft-gins and spirits.

With botanical flavours extracted by delicate vapour infusion and only pure Dartmoor spring water added to the final spirit, the gins offer a bold, complex character loved by gin enthusiasts around the world.

An old Devon legend says that the tiny white ‘thunder flowers’ that sometimes grow on the thatched cottage roofs and ancient Dartmoor landscape can ward off both lightning and witchcraft – both handy qualities for any gin.

Thunderflower was launched in 2018 by Anicca & Dom in the coastal town of Teignmouth. Anicca & Dom run a custom-built 200-litre pot still, developing their own recipes and lovingly crafting the spirits every step of the way, from the design of the labels, foraging botanicals, and distilling & bottling. Anicca & Dom still number and sign each 70cl bottle produced.

Rather than steep and boil the botanicals, they only use vapour infusion to extract flavour. The botanicals are placed in a chamber that lies in the path of the alcohol vapour, preserving the delicate flavours. ‘One-shot’ distillation run means that apart from water for dilution, the resulting spirit isn’t altered beyond the vapour interacting with the botanicals. They use pure, natural spring water drawn at the source from deep under Dartmoor to dilute the gin to the perfect strength before bottling.