The story of Inverroche begins in 2007, when founder Lorna Scott and her son began experimenting with a 1.7L copper pot still known as “Mini Meg”, followed by four years of playing around and experimenting. In December 2011, the distillery launched its inaugural gins and opened its doors to the public for the first time.
The Inverroche distillery lies at the confluence of the Goukou River and the Indian Ocean, near Still Bay (Stilbaai) in the Western Cape of Southern Africa. Inverroche takes its name from two words: the Scottish word “Inver”, meaning ‘a confluence of water’ and the French word “Roche” meaning ‘rock or stone’, which not-so-coincidentally are the very elements in Still Bay that have cultivated the conditions necessary to create the gin!