"The curious journey of a curious mind"

It takes an inquisitive, questing spirit to produce the most remarkable results. Through the years PJ Rigney has taken many journeys from familiar to terra incognita.

In times, those travels brought him here, to the wild and unspoilt landscape of Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim. And it was here his curious mind, filled with the great oriental traditions of distilling fruit, herbs and botanicals, got to work.

He created The Shed Distillery of PJ Rigney, with the medieval copper pot stills, and began a quest to fuse oriental botanicals with the local Irish ones.

As it turned out, they got on very well indeed. The result of this passionate exploration is Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin - unique, extraordinary and as remarkable as the elusive creature PJ has occasionally glimpsed in the fields, the Drumshanbo Jackalope.