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STEEPED
IN HISTORY
The coastline of North Norfolk is a tranquil place, steeped in history and blessed with great natural beauty.
This is farming country. This is fishing country. This is Nelson's County. This is the Royal Coast.
This Area of Natural Beauty runs for 56 miles, from the coastal flatlands of The Wash in the west to the sand dunes in the east. The wide-open beaches and endless salt marshes are of unique scientific and ecological value, playing host to countless species of migrating birds.
The ancient Peddars Way traverses the quiet hinterland, weaving its way through fertile fields and along vibrant hedgerows, showcasing Norfolk’s grand estates, great churches and fine village pubs.
And at its heart sits the coastal village of Brancaster – famed for its beach and the mysterious, endlessly-changing Scolt Head Island, fabled for its world-famous golf links and blessed with the majestic flights of migrating birds in spring and autumn.
Our spirits have been born from the harvest of this magical coastline.
Artfully
Crafted
Award-winning distillers turn the glorious bounty of our coast into our range of internationally-recognised luxury spirits. The Spirit of Brancaster.
Along the Brancaster shore line, the sea, the beach and the salt marshes are in constant ebb and flow. In this tranquil and bewitching landscape, samphire, sea buckthorn, elderflower and gorse plants thrive. These botanicals are combined to produce our award-winning Brancaster Gin - beautifully fresh and delightfully smooth.
Above the village, and blessed with fertile soil and a kind climate, farming flourishes – shaping the landscape and defining our communities for generations past. Under huge skies, the fields provide the finest grain and the hedgerows are abuzz with busy squadrons of honey bees. The harvest of our farmers and our local beekeepers provide the taste and the smoothness of our award-winning Brancaster Vodka.
And around the fields the hedges are rich with springtime flowers and laden with autumnal blackberries. The flavours and the colours of pink elderflower and wild blackberries delicately infuse our award-winning gin to create a gentle taste of North Norfolk in the form of our wonderful Brancaster Pink Gin.
The Art of
Brancaster
Our good friend Harry Cory Wright has supplied us with the photographs on this site. They are all taken along the short stretch of coast on either side of this village where we live.
Harry has also provided two wonderful drawings from his masterful series, ‘The Island’, that will grace the bottles of our two 2025 Special Editions. These inspiring pieces celebrate the mysterious majesty of Scolt Head Island, a permanent and yet ever-changing feature of the coastal horizon. https://harrycorywright.com/The-Island
Harry is a photographer and artist whose father was brought up in Brancaster. He is fascinated by this area and its capacity to stir the heart. We asked him to write a couple of paragraphs about 'Why Brancaster'.
Brancaster is the village in North Norfolk where we live. We enjoy it for the community it provides for sure, but let's put that aside for a moment and consider something else. What about that peripheral aspect on the edge of the village where we look outwards, north, beyond.
If you walk to the dunes where Brancaster meets the sea you will witness something unique. The view is North for a start, which is unusual in England, and very different to a view East. The aspect is sharper, keener, and distinct in its Northern promise. But also, and here is the thing, if you look to your right you witness the clear horizontal thread that is Scolt Head island.
Scolt is a place held in high regard by all who live here, which is quite something for somewhere that barely exists in its makeup of just sand, water and air. Yet this place seems to be charged with something so enigmatic that it almost belongs more acutely in the mind than it does in reality. We take it home with us. It expands as we dream of it. Brancaster as a place is the linch pin, the anchor, the firm ground that allows us to catch a glimpse of an island that is somewhere else. A place of such otherness and such vigour that it can fill our waking dreams.
You can see Harry’s drawings and photographs here
www.harrycorywright.com
