Our story

Pioneers driven by passion

Hernö Gin is the world’s leading and most awarded craft gin producer. Proud pioneers who started the first gin distillery in Sweden back in 2011. It all began with a passion for the juniper predomi-nant spirit and a dream evolving to gin crafting. A journey that took Hernö Gin’s founder Jon Hillgren to places and gin distilleries all around the world in his thirst for knowledge and search for inspiration. Finally settling in the small village of Dala just outside Härnösand in the High Coast of Sweden. Hernö Gin is crafting the world’s most awarded gins from natural organic botanicals in the hand hammered copper stills Kierstin, Marit and Yvonne. With a mindset of crafting, transparency in all parts of the process and total focus on quality, Hernö Gin intend to bring premium gin culture to every home.

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Feel the bliss of solitude

There is a power and a great beauty in solitude. Situated in the middle of nowhere, but yet a strong spot on the map of the gin world, the village of Dala has a natural beauty inspiring to create and make dreams come true. Dala has the perfect soil for purity and passion, which is the most important ingredients in our products. The result is a gin so palatable that it is perfect to enjoy neat.

Share the fun with others

We love to be social. While we are bringing gin lovers from near and far closer to the outskirts of the world we are going places. In everyday life and in our minds. Openness, curiosity and joy characterize who we are and how we relate to others. It is also the secret behind development and success. Networking, cooperation and knowledge exchange is taking us further on our journey. And we are welcoming everybody that wants to follow us on the road.