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Highlights
- Visit the Flavour Arch to smell gin’s main ingredients, then head to the Still Room to watch the distillation process up close.
- Begin with a welcome serve, then taste gins presented with mixers and garnishes that help highlight their different flavour notes.
- With just 12 guests per group, you’ll get more time and space to engage with your expert guide and gain deeper insights about the distillery.
- End your tour at the Distillery Bar, a beautifully styled space offering crafted serves, mocktails, and premium Scottish small plates.
- Make your experience extra special with an upgrade like crafting your own bottle or learning about garnishes and aromas in a guided class.
Your Experience
Welcome to Your Experience at The Edinburgh Gin Distillery
Begin a journey into the world of gin crafting with this 75-minute guided tour, which includes tasting sessions. Located in lively city-centre Edinburgh, United Kingdom, you'll explore every facet of gin production.
Getting Started
Your adventure begins at the main entrance of The Edinburgh Gin Distillery where your guide will welcome you and verify your booking along with ID proof. Following a brief introduction, explore an overview of the distillery's story and essential production techniques.
The Experience Awaits You
Set in modern working space at The Edinburgh Gin Distillery, this tour celebrates creativity and precision behind gin making. It highlights history, innovation, and methods that contribute to crafting every bottle within a lively city-centre environment.
- Distillery Tour: Explore the operational distillery where you'll see how selected botanicals, copper stills, and expert techniques unite in production.
- Tasting Room: Enjoy guided tastings of two gins and two gin liqueurs crafted on-site. Learn about each profile's ingredients and inspirations during your visit.
- Gin Heritage: Discover Edinburgh’s longstanding relationship with the craft of creating gin, including how The Edinburgh Gin Distillery contributes to the city's current production.
- Distillery Bar Experience: Relax at the Distillery Bar after your tour. Here, you can enjoy tasting flights accompanied by Scottish charcuterie and soft drinks in an elegant setting that celebrates local craftsmanship.
Note: Optional upgrades are available for those interested in a hands-on bottle-making workshop with personalized labeling or cheese lunch, as well as a scent and garnish masterclass led by experts.
Inclusions & Exclusions
- Admission to the Edinburgh Gin Distillery for a 65-mins guided tour
- Access to explore Flavour Arch & Still Room during your visit
- Entry includes one welcome drink upon arrival
- Ticket provides sampling of several gin variations with mixers and garnishes
- Use of facilities at Distillery Bar included in the experience
- One ticket covers a group size of up to 12-persons
- Experience involves an optional gin making session (as per option selected)
- Includes personalised label for your gin bottle if chosen (as per option selected)
- Features locally selected charcuterie and cheese lunch, available on request (as per option selected)
- Covers aroma test as part of the experience when opted (as per option selected)
- Offers an opportunity to customise an infused spray garnish upon selection (as per option selected)
- Individual Costs
This product offers multiple ticket options. Some items above (like transfers or fast-track access) may only apply to specific options — confirm what's included when you select yours.
Ticket Delivery
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Your voucher will be emailed to you instantly.
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Display the voucher on your mobile phone with a valid photo ID at the meeting point.
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Please arrive at the meeting point 15 minutes before the scheduled time of your tour to avoid any delays.
Meeting point
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Meet your guide at The Edinburgh Gin Distillery at The Arches.
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Address: Arch 16, The Arches, E Market St, Edinburgh EH8 8FS, United Kingdom.
Cancellation Policy
These tickets can't be rescheduled or cancelled.
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