A Collaborative Spirit: Biltmore Conservatory Rose Gin

What happens when Biltmore’s legendary gardens come together with an award-winning local distillery? Crafted in collaboration with Chemist Spirits, Biltmore Conservatory Rose Gin is the delightful result of a collaboration and craftsmanship between two family-led companies in Asheville, North Carolina.

With the addition of Biltmore Estate’s rose petals and red wine barrels, every sip of this outstanding small-batch gin tells a story with its soft pink hue and layers of distinctive flavor.

Curious how it was made and what makes it unlike anything else in your bar cart? Let’s pour into the details.

Biltmore Conservatory Rose Gin crafted is a collaboration with Chemist Spirits in Asheville, NC.

Aged to refinement

The 84-proof base gin crafted by Chemist Spirits expresses soft juniper notes bursting with bright citrus. It is then matured for several months in red wine-soaked estate barrels, then laid to rest on fresh-picked rose petals from the estate’s Rose Garden for a rich infusion of warm fruit and toasted oak flavors. This one-of-a-kind spirit is pink in hue and offers sweet nuances of pink and white roses, lemon cream, vanilla, ripe strawberry, and grapefruit peel.

Mixed or muddled, handcrafted botanical gins are very much on trend, and none surpass the pure elegance of Biltmore Conservatory Rose Gin! This is the fourth time we’ve collaborated with Chemist Spirits to handcraft this limited-edition, small-batch Rose Gin. It’s a remarkable way to evoke the classic refinement of Biltmore’s gardens in bloom.

Biltmore’s Historic Rose Garden provides perfect pink petals for our collaboration with Chemist Gin.

Sourcing the perfect petals

To preserve the peak freshness of this limited-edition small-batch gin, hand-plucked rose petals from Biltmore’s Historic Rose Garden are infused into the barreled, rested spirit just days before it is bottled and released.

The result is a palate-pleasing botanical gin with a subtle pink hue from the wine barrels and sweet nuances of pink and white rose, lemon cream, vanilla, ripe strawberry, and grapefruit peel that finishes with a smooth, velvety note of dry red wine.

May to June – Biltmore’s historic Rose Garden takes center stage as multiple species of roses are in full bloom. Petals from our roses were selected for a spirited collaboration with Asheville’s Chemist Spirits that resulted in Biltmore Conservatory Rose Gin.

A spirit worth sharing

“The rose is symbolic of many powerful emotions, and Chemist Spirits’ Conservatory Rose Gin captures this essence in a bottle that makes for a perfect gift to be enjoyed with friends and family,” said Debbie Word, who founded Chemist Spirits along with her daughter Danielle Donaldson, an accomplished chemist who is also a young mother.

“Chemist Spirits is particularly proud to make this special release available in time for Mother’s Day, when roses are traditionally gifted to celebrate our admiration for and the grace of the women in our lives,” Debbie noted.

Enjoy a refreshing French Rose 75 Cocktail featuring Biltmore Estate Brut sparkling wine and Biltmore Conservatory Rose Gin.

Create cocktail chemistry

To honor this exclusive collaboration in which Chemist Spirits locally distilled gin is carefully aged in Biltmore wine barrels, along with a fragrant profusion of petals from estate roses, we’re shaking things up by pairing our wines with a splash of spirits to create instant cocktail chemistry:

Try an elegant French Rose 75 cocktail with Biltmore Estate® Brut Sparkling and Biltmore Conservatory Rose Gin—it’s perfect for any occasion.

Biltmore Conservatory Rose Gin crafted is a collaboration with Chemist Spirits in Asheville, NC.

Savor Biltmore Conservatory Rose Gin and Biltmore wines

We invite you to enjoy Biltmore Conservatory Rose Gin in the ‘spirit’ in which it is intended–as a reminder to slow down and savor those lingering moments that capture the sweeping romance of Biltmore Estate and inspire us to pause and drink in the roses.

Enjoy this signature Rose Gin in cocktails at estate restaurants, and find our award-winning wines in estate shops and online. To purchase Biltmore Conservatory Rose Gin by the bottle while supplies last, visit or contact Chemist Spirits in downtown Asheville.