Delighted to share our latest newsletter from our home Ballyvolane House…

We are looking forward to hosting the Christmas Market and Santa Experience in November, Festive Dining in the run-up to Xmas, Faulty Towers chaos and get into the Festive Spirit with Bertha’s Revenge Gin.

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We are delighted that The Taste of Cork and Waterford will be hosting their annual Christmas Market and Santa Experience at our home, Ballyvolane House on Saturday, 25th and Sunday, 26th November 2023. Market stalls selling all manner of gifts, crafts and stocking-fillers including Bertha. There will be food trucks too.

This is a local community event and is being organised by the wonderful Castlelyons Community Council. All information and booking links are published on the Castlelyons Parish Facebook Page.

Hope to see you there!

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“Checking in to Ballyvolane House feels a bit like arriving as the overnight guest of your well-traveled, wealthy, and eccentric uncle. Here, in this magnificent country house in verdant County Cork, the overriding feeling is one of lived-in warmth where no one blinks an eye at boots, muddy from a garden walk, trodding across antique rugs. Ballyvolane is a private home, in a sense, with its third-generation owners residing in a private wing; the home’s six bedrooms reserved exclusively for guests, which include the now King Charles III, Queen Camilla, and their entourage.”

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The Dirty Martini is the perfect tipple for drinkers who prefer savoury over sweet. The addition of olive brine to a classic Dry Martini is what defines a Dirty Martini, however, as some olive brines are oily and can be unpleasant to drink, some mixologists reach for olive bitters instead. This is our preferred option. The saline olives lend lovely umami notes to the cocktail.

The Dirty Martini has a long and distinguished history and the origins of the Dirty Martini date from 1901, when John E O’Connor served a Martini with muddled olives at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.

Former US president Franklin D Roosevelt was a fan and he used to serve and drink them at the White House.

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his is another one of our autumn/winter favourites along with the Bertha Hedgerow Martini.

This cocktail was created in the mid-1980’s by Dick Bradsell in Fred’s Club, Soho, London. Bertha works so well with the fruit and citrus and it is a gorgeous fireside aperitif.This is another one of our autumn favourites along with the Bertha Hedgerow Martini.

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We are delighted Bertha’s Revenge Gin and our home Ballyvolane House are featured in Forbes Magazine in an article by Jillian Dara.

“It is the Irish equivalent of a French Chateaux with a vineyard on the estate. We have a historic house with a distillery in the farmyard,” shares Justin Green, cofounder of Bertha’s Revenge Irish Milk Gin and owner of Ballyvolane House.

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Join us on Friday, 8th September 2023 for a Climate Conscious Food panel discussion, a long-table lunch and a tour of Ballyvolane House and gardens. This event is part of the Feast - East Cork Food and Drink Festival 2023.

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Massive thanks to Gemma Tipton for writing about Ballyvolane House (the home of Bertha’s Revenge Gin) in the Irish Times. The article coincides with National Heritage Week which is a celebration of Ireland’s built heritage.

Justin and Jenny took over the reins of Ballyvolane House from Justin’s parents Jeremy and Merrie twenty years ago and the article looks back at how Ballyvolane House has evolved during this time. Preserving historic houses in important work and we were delighted to have had an opportunity to share our story with Gemma. She has captured the spirit(s) of the place perfectly (in terms of our ethos and in terms of the other kind of spirit - Bertha’s Revenge Gin).

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