From the edge of Bodmin Moor
About Moorland Distillery.
We are a family-owned, small-batch distillery established in 2016 and located on the edge of Bodmin Moor. Our vision was to produce quality beverages made from pure ingredients, allowing them time to mature into truly exceptional products.
Our story
Using Unspoilt Natural Resources to Create a Quality Product
We started by exploring a range of base ingredients that could be used to produce an outstanding Cornish brandy alongside a refreshing Cornish Apple Schnapps.
Extensive research led us to understand that some of the best brandies are produced in copper pot stills, as they retain more of the original aromas and flavours. We found and purchased a 150 litre copper pot still, completed the necessary legal requirements, and production began.
Made slowly, made properly.
Field Note
On location
Longstone, St Mabyn — a quiet pocket on the north edge of Bodmin Moor, where granite, hedgerow and weather conspire to flavour everything that grows here.
Est.
2016
The journey so far
Built slowly. Shaped by place, copper and time.
Chapter 01
Established on Bodmin Moor
Moorland Distillery was founded as a family-owned small-batch distillery on the edge of Bodmin Moor.
Chapter 02
Finding the Right Method
Research into traditional brandy-making led the team toward copper pot distillation for its ability to preserve aroma and flavour.
Chapter 03
150 Litre Copper Pot Still
A 150 litre copper pot still became the heart of production, allowing carefully controlled small-batch distillation.
Chapter 04
Time in Oak
The young brandy is transferred into oak barrels, sealed with beeswax and left to mature. Now we wait.
The process
We Start with the Very Best Natural Raw Ingredients
Apple juice is fermented into apple wine using selected yeasts, a process common with all true brandies. These low wines are then transferred to our copper still and gently heated to extract the apple wine spirit.
Our master distiller takes the exact cuts from the distilled alcohol to make our Apple Brandy. The young brandy is then transferred into oak barrels, sealed with beeswax and left to mature. Now we wait.
Pure Ingredients
We begin with carefully chosen natural raw ingredients.
Apple Wine
Apple juice is fermented into apple wine using selected yeasts.
Copper Pot Distilled
The low wines are gently heated in a copper pot still to retain aroma and flavour.
Oak Matured
The young brandy rests in oak barrels, sealed with beeswax and shaped by time.
From process to pour
Explore the Spirits Made on the Edge of Bodmin Moor
From Cornish Apple Brandy to traditional English cordials and fruit-led spirits, each bottle carries the same small-batch approach.
Citrus fruit and local botanicals
Shrub
Bold spice and small batch
Rum
Rich, rounded and refined
