{"id":11911,"date":"2026-07-24T06:43:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=11911"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:43:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:43:55","slug":"secret-garden-distillery-collapses-with-all-jobs-lost-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=11911","title":{"rendered":"Secret Garden distillery collapses with all jobs lost \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>The Secret Garden Distillery had won awards<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A family-run gin distillery, which won an award last year for its production process, has been placed into voluntary liquidation with all 16 jobs lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Secret Garden Distillery, based at Lothianburn, near Edinburgh, was launched on a derelict plot in 2012, using 600 varieties of plants harvested on site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Opus Restructuring &amp; Insolvency has been appointed liquidator following the disilltery\u2019 failure to raise additional investment from a third party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for the liquidators told The Herald: \u201cGareth Wilcox and Mark Harper of Opus Restructuring &amp; Insolvency were appointed joint liquidators of Secret Garden Distillery, following the director\u2019s concluding that the company must cease trading and enter creditors\u2019 voluntary liquidation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe withdrawal of the interested party and absence of any likely alternative gave rise to the decision that there was no option but to commence liquidation proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">All employees, including the directors, were made redundant. A disposal of assets is in process with no certainty over the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Midlothian distillery was named UK Gin Producer of the Year 2025\u00a0by the\u00a0IWSC &amp; Club Oenologique, which it said is \u201can award judged solely on liquid quality.\u201d It has received other recognition from the industry.<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Secret #Garden #distillery #collapses #jobs #lost #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret Garden Distillery had won awards A family-run gin distillery, which won an award&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[272,7358,306,9863,3936,310,538,1021,17807],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}