Christmas at Demijohn

Christmas at Demijohn on Saturday 7th December 2024 is a delightfully festive food and drink event at Glenlair Steading, mixing a little Christmas shopping with some delicious mulled drinks, mince pies and atmospheric Christmas carols.

Visitors planning to attend Christmas at Demijohn can register in advance for a complimentary mulled drink* to ensure a cosy start to their celebrations.

Demijohn is celebrating 20 years business in 2024 with a series of major new  events in Glenlair Steading. Christmas at Demijohn follows on from the success of their inaugural music festival, Glenlair Feastival, in August and art festival, Demijohn’s Big Spring Weekend, in May.

The series of new events successfully combined both music and art with food & drink and have brought crowds to visit their new store at Glenlair Steading, which is now open for tastings, refills and is a great place to find a unique Christmas gift or two.

Christmas at Demijohn, an afternoon of festive food & drink, will take place from 4pm until 7pm on Sat 7th December. The Demijohn Store at Glenlair Steading will be open from 10am to 7pm for tastings, purchases and refills. During the event, the Demijohn Cocktail Bar will be serving up some festive cheer with warming mulled drinks and seasonal food.

To add some magical Christmas spirit, Carol singers will perform within the historic and exceedingly picturesque 19th century Glenlair Steading.

Angus Ferguson, owner of Demijohn said: “Our new store sits really well within the beautiful historic setting of Glenlair Steading and seems to be attracting quite a lot of attention as something exciting and new for Galloway. On a cold, dark evening, when the lights come on, the steading is turned into a magical space. Our hope is that local families of all generations will turn out to enjoy some Christmas cheer with us.”

Shopping at Demijohn is fun and more like visiting a rural winery than a deli. Lined with over 70 immense bulbous glass demijohns filled with delicious and unique alcoholic and non-alcoholic aperitif and digestifs, it is a magnificent spectacle as well as a riot for one’s tastebuds. Customers are encouraged to try before they buy, prior to their choice of bottle being filled in-store, from a range of beautiful refillable Italian glass bottles of varying sizes and shapes.

Christmas favourites such as our award winning Sloe Gin and Bramble Scotch Whisky Liqueur are found alongside a varied selection of delicious olive oils and balsamic vinegars, for dressings and a myriad of culinary wizardry.

All products are available to order in-store or online for collection or mail order delivery via the Demijohn website: https://www.demijohn.co.uk/

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Demijohn:

Demijohn was founded in Edinburgh in 2004 by Angus and Frances Ferguson and is now based at Glenlair Steading on their family farm in South West Scotland. They source unusual, delicious artisan liqueurs, spirits, oils and vinegars from around the UK and Europe and sell them in a wide range of refillable glass bottles via their international mail order service and farm shop concession stores. Each bottle can have a free handwritten personalised message added. Gift wrapping is also available.

The Demijohn 2025 events programme at Glenlair Steading will include both Demijohn’s Big Spring Weekend, a festival of art, food & drink which runs simultaneously with Spring Fling Open Studios event, between 24th to 26th May 2025 and Glenlair Feastival, a family friendly music, food & drink festival, on Sat 16th Aug 2025.

*Complimentary mulled drinks are non-alcoholic and limited to one per registered person while stocks last.