Timberyard crafts a lavender amaro from East Lothian’s gardens

Timberyard has distilled the aromatic character of East Lothian into a lavender amaro that speaks to the kitchen’s fastidious approach to sourcing. The spirit draws its principal note from lavender grown in the region, then deepened with sweet cicely and wormwood cultivated in the restaurant’s own herb garden. The result is a fragrant, herbal conclusion to dinner, pale gold in colour and complex on the palate.

The amaro joins Timberyard’s carefully considered after dinner drinks programme, each offering chosen to extend the culinary conversation begun at table. What distinguishes this particular expression is its direct lineage to the ground itself: these are not merely ingredients procured from a supplier, but botanicals harvested from soil the kitchen tends, creating an intimacy between place, plant and glass that captures something essential about how this kitchen thinks.

The amaro is available at Timberyard in Edinburgh and may also be found at Montrose Edinburgh, allowing those who have not yet experienced the restaurant to taste something of its philosophy in another setting. It stands as a quiet reminder that in the hands of a kitchen as considered as this one, even an after dinner drink becomes an extension of the day’s intent.

Imagery courtesy of Timberyard (@timberyard10).