Bombay Sapphire Gin Distillery Tour and Cocktail

Could be much much better, I have done other tours e.g whiskey tours in Scotland which have been infinitely more involved. It’s very corporate and not nearly enough tasting - one shot from a machine which you are watches in case you go one MM over ! Stood outside in the freezing weather as part of the tour when it could have been done inside. Wouldn’t bother

I’m not a Gin drinker but my wife is, so as a gift I purchased this experience for her. I have to admit, the whole experience was enlightening! Chloe, our tour guide was knowledgeable, professional and engaging. As a couple, we learnt so much about distilled and botanical gin processing which demonstrated to us on how Bombay Sapphire Gin arrives at our retail outlets. We’d highly recommend this experience to one and all.

If you do have any interest at all in gin. Whether it be the taste of the spirit, the cocktails, the distilling or its history then you could not wish for a better place to visit and whet your appetite for it. The Bombay Sapphire distillery is not big, its set on the site of a 400 year old mill, selected originally for the access to the small river that runs through it and developed over a couple of hundred years to be the perfect place to distil its very fine product. The tours here are frequent and friendly as we found with our very knowledgeable and conscientious guide Mark. He took us first to select a generous cocktail of our choice, which we then took into a cinema and were able to finish at our leisure while watching a short film about the company’s products. Next we started the tour proper and were given by our guide, Mark, detailed histories of the various activities relating to the buildings on the site, their histories and original as well as current uses. This included going into some such as the fabulous domed glasshouse that have growing examples of all the plants used in the process of making gin. The tour the ends up with a short course in the making and drinking of some fine gin cocktails, this for us was great fun it was hosted in a lovely , humorous way by a vivacious lady called Evie. Afterwards we then relaxed at the Mill bar where we chatted amongst ourselves over some of the finer points of this very interesting event.