Birch Premium Botanical Vodka Drinks Feature
Birch Premium Botanical Vodka is the latest inspired creation from Scottish entrepreneurs Tom Chisholm and Rupert Waites; a vodka with added twig!
Buck & Birch – flagship product
Well-known for its resilience in Scotland’s landscape, the birch tree is a revered symbol in Scottish folklore. It epitomises protection, purification, and renewal, as well as providing a deep metaphorical connection to the nation’s traditions, heritage and spirit.
Birch Premium Botanical Vodka is the flagship product of wilderness spirits pioneers Buck & Birch.
Buck & Birch – a taste of the wild
Founded in 2016 by Scottish entrepreneurs Tom Chisholm and Rupert Waites, Buck & Birch is a Scottish based team of nature lovers, foragers and flavour innovators, whose aim is to create exceptional new spirits incorporating the incredible ingredients that nature has to offer. Defying most of the drinks industry norms and being led only by a spirit of exploration, many of the products take their inspiration from walks through Scotland’s woods and forests and these guys’ love of the flavourful saps, plants, barks and berries that lie within: truly celebrating the wonders of the wild.
Using only sustainable and natural ingredients and employing traditional extraction techniques to gently refine the products they create, allows them to give an authentic ‘taste of the wild’ in every bottle of their range of products.
Birch Premium Botanical Vodka is one of the new wave of sap-based spirits that is growing in popularity. The headline ingredient in Birch Premium is Scottish birch sap – a luxuriously light and silky natural ingredient, which originates from the birch trees grown in one of the community forests in Scotland that Buck & Birch collaborate with.
The birch sap is harvested annually, each spring and is then mingled with pure spirit, then finely infused with complex extracts of birch botanicals, which bestow a delicate yet distinctive botanical flavour to the vodka.
To further add a touch of woodland seasoning, a preserved Birch twig is added to each bottle.
Birch Vodka is smooth, delicious and unlike anything else on the market.
Birch Vodka – tasting notes and availability
Buck & Birch, in their tasting notes describe Birch Vodka as ‘Refreshing as a vibrant spring forest. Subtly sweet notes with hints of green apple, fennel and wood spice. Soft, silky and smooth to taste, with a long, warm finish.’
- 39.6%ABV/70cl/RRP £35.95.
It is available directly from buckandbirch.com or from specialist retailers.
Birch Vodka can be drunk neat, ideally served straight from the freezer in a frozen shot glass.
Birch Forest Martini
You could also try it in a Birch Forest Martini, suggested by the team at
Buck & Birch, where 100 ml of Birch Vodka and 20 ml of vermouth are stirred and added with ice cubes into a shaker, then finally strained into a Martini glass.
Further reading
If you would like to find out more about how Tom Chisholm and Rupert Waites met and founded Buck & Birch, their philiosophy, products and more serve suggestions then visit: buckandbirch.com