How It’s Done

We collect Redberry and Alligator Juniper berries from individual female trees on private land in West Texas. The landowners have become great friends, and not too coincidentally, are also huge fans of WildBark and WildJune Gins! The berries are produced on a two year cycle and can sometimes stay on the branch for up to 18 months before they are ready to harvest. We have ‘odd year’ female trees and ‘even year’ female trees, and I have noticed that some trees take a break during drought years and skip a year of reproduction.

The harvest from an individual tree is abundant, and we gather enough berries per tree to run entire batches of our gin using the berries from a single tree. I remember one year when we collected close to 40lbs of alligator juniper from ‘Fertile Myrtl’ and she still had more than 50% of her berries on her branches! In fact, we are the only liquor company in the world to offer a single sourced botanical spirit!

And we’ve grown so fond of our trees that we’ve given them names. Look for the name of the tree that produced the berries in our gin, and start collecting the bottles of your favorite juniper belles. Look on the Left Side of our labels to find the name of the tree whose berries we used to produce that batch on both WildJune and WildBark bottles. And check out some of these beauties below!

Lastly, we feel so grateful to these trees that make this special gin possible, that we’ve been giving back to the land that produces these unique Texas beauties. We started a give-back-to-the-land campaign that we call ‘Give A Wild Buck’ back in 2021 and we’ve been running it every year since. It’s a simple premise—we give back to the land that gave us these trees by giving $1 for every bottle purchased during the giving season (November through February) to the Nature Conservancy for the West Texas Chapter. 

Check out our webpage for more details!

Skinny Minny

Lovely Loopy

Fertile Myrtle