Producing Dovey Native Botanical Gin

New producers of Dovey Native Botanical Gin

Dovey Native Botanical Gin is a spirit drink protected under a UK geographical indication scheme. This means that if you want to produce and market it in the UK, you’ll need to:

It’s illegal to produce and market Dovey Native Botanical Gin that has not been verified by HMRC. This could also breach local laws in countries where Dovey Native Botanical Gin is protected under a geographical indication scheme.

Once you’ve applied to the Spirit Drinks Verification Scheme, we’ll send you an invoice covering your initial fees for registration and verification.

Once you’ve paid your fees, we’ll contact you to arrange a verification visit. This is to check that all your production processes comply with the product specification for Dovey Native Botanical Gin. We’ll only visit production premises in the UK.

A verification visit will include checks on your:

Read the full list of checks we carry out in the Dovey Native Botanical Gin verification checklist (PDF, 172 KB, 11 pages).

How often we’ll need to verify your processes

We’ll normally need to verify you every 2 years. This might change, if we:

If your production processes are compliant

If we’re satisfied that your processes are compliant, we’ll:

publish details of your production facilities on the Spirit Drinks Verification Look-up Facility

only access your existing tax and duty assurance records if we need to support your verification

If your production processes are non-compliant

We identify non-compliant production processes by: 

If your processes are non-compliant, we’ll discuss with you how you can change this. We’ll agree a reasonable length of time for you to make the changes needed.