Allied Glass makes five-sided bottle for Scottish gin

Ben Bold, packagingnews.co.uk, 08 December 2009

 

International Beverage UK (Inver House Distillers) has commissioned Allied Glass to manufacture the Celtic-design-influenced bottle for its new premium gin brand, Caorunn.

 

The flint glass bottle, originally conceived by branding agency Navyblue, has drawn inspiration from the Scottish art nouveau movement, which itself was heavily influenced by Celtic knots.

 

The five-sided, pentagonal bottle represents each of the gin's Celtic botanical ingredients, while a red five-pointed asterisk – a stylised rowan berry base – appears in the centre of the bottle's body.

 

The Celtic word for 'established' is printed on a label on the bottle's neck to signify the distillery's heritage, while a wooden closure also carries an etched version of the asterisk, with each point of the star pointing to the name of the five ingredients.

 

The five ingredients in Caorunn gin are rowan berry, heather, coul blush apple, dandelion and bog myrtle.

 

Small batches of Caorunn are produced at Inver House's malt whisky Distillery in Balmenach in Scotland's Speyside region.

 

Iby Bakos, International Beverage UK brand manager, said: "The perfectly balanced recipe of 11 hand-picked botanicals ensures a naturally balanced flavour that works well in cocktails.