Bombay Sapphire Gin Distillery Tour and Cocktail
Description
Based at Laverstoke Mill near Winchester, the Bombay Sapphire Distillery is home to all Bombay Sapphire gin. Every experience starts with a trip to the Turbine Bar to choose a Bombay gin to make a gin & tonic before heading to the cinema room to be immersed in all things Bombay Sapphire in preparation for the tour. Discover the history behind Bombay Sapphire and the paper-making business at Laverstoke Mill, before uncovering the secrets of the rare production processes used to make Bombay Sapphire. Your guide will tell you about the botanicals that go into the gin in the Botanical Glasshouses and the Botanical Dry Room.
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Itinerary
Your experience begins with a trip to the Turbine Bar, where you’ll make your own complimentary gin & tonic using our self-serve gin dispensers, before heading to the Cinema Room to be immersed in all things Bombay Sapphire in preparation for your tour. Explore the Bombay Sapphire Distillery with a distillery host to guide you as you discover the ten exotic botanicals infused into every drop of Bombay Sapphire Gin in the Glasshouses, with an insight into Heatherwick Studios’ inspired design. Your host will help you navigate the Botanical Room, a sensory experience to uncover your flavour preferences, and you’ll learn about the rare vapour infusion distillation process, which makes Bombay Sapphire gin so exquisite.
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Minimum drinking age is 18 years (under 18s must be accompanied at all times by an adult). A 'Challenge 25' policy is in place, valid photo ID is required.
- Do not wear open-toed shoes or high heels to the distillery.
- A small amount of walking is involved and there are some uneven surfaces.
- Wheelchair accessible - manual wheelchairs are available to book on request.
- Operates in all weather conditions and parts of the tour are outside, please dress appropriately.
- The Bombay Sapphire Distillery is a cashless venue and only card or contactless payments will be accepted.
Reviews(735)
The experience included tour and mixology session. Izzy our tour guide was friendly, professional, clearly knew her history about the distillery. Marcus w.as funny, informative during the mixology session. Overall highly recommend, you learn fact you never knew and being Indian and finding out the rupee was made at the factory many centuries ago was amazing.
A fantastic look at the distilling of a famous gin. Very knowledgeable guide who explained all the processes and explained about the botanicals which are used. The site is surprisingly small to produce so much gin and I was not aware that the original factory produced bank notes. The gin flight after the tour was good as the stages of how to taste and rate gins was explained before sampling. All in all a great tour and one to be recommended.
Very enjoyable trip excellent guide, and very nice lunchtime snacks in the cafe. Beware, if approaching from the north entrance comes up a tad quickly. Could do with an advance sign.
We had Debbie for our guide, who was excellent, she was enthusiastic and gave us lots of interesting facts about the distillery and how gin was made. We all enjoyed it and can recommend this tour around the distillery, which is set in a lovely part of England.
My partner loves her gin, and we were staying nearby, so booked a tour for our anniversary. From start to finish the whole tour was amazing. The site is beautiful and the experience is not rushed and our tour guide was brilliant, so informative, funny . The cafe was a great place to have a gin and tonic and something to eat, sitting underneath a Bombay Sapphire umbrella..
Thank you for your lovely review! We're delighted you chose to celebrate your anniversary with us and that you both had such an enjoyable visit. We hope to welcome you back again soon.
Interesting & knowledgable tour with a fantastic cocktail masterclass. Great service from the whole team, particularly Shannon, Debbie & Luke.
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review! We're so pleased you had a great distillery tour and gin cocktail masterclass with us. We hope to welcome you back again soon.
A really nice time had at Bombay Sapphire - the tour was well worth the money. Although having done this in the past the botanicals room used to be bigger and better - you would get a card and mark the smells and tastes you liked - then the bar staff would mix a cocktail based on your preferences. Now it’s a bit different - you have a gin and tonic (fun to dispense via button in the wall!) to start the tour and you watch a video. Different and fun, I just preferred the old version.
Wel paced tour, very informative. I did think the explanation in the Still Room was hampered by the limited view of the equipment, poor acoustics and maintenance scaffolding. I only really saw and understood the operation of the still itself. How/where the botanicals were added could not be seen and nor could the condenser. Or anything on the platform above.
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We're so pleased you found the tour informative and received a warm welcome. As we're a working distillery, we occasionally need to carry out maintenance work, and we're sorry the scaffolding impacted your experience. We'll be sure to share your feedback with the team, and we hope to welcome you back again soon.
We had an excellent afternoon, Lovely old buildings which used to be a printing works back in the day. Amanda our guide was informative and a pleasure to listen to. The G+T to begin with was lovely,to sit and sip whilst watching the Bombay Sapphire informative video,which you start with. The bar is worth a visit to try other cocktails that the team make. We had a toasted sandwich for lunch which was also enjoyable. Exit via the shop, new gin glasses brought 👌🏻. Great way to spend three odd hours,tour and drinking gin 👌🏻👌🏻
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a lovely review! We're so pleased to hear you had a lovely afternoon with us and enjoyed your tour with Amanda. We hope you enjoy your new gin glasses and look forward to welcoming you back again soon.
Fascinating tour around the grounds of the Bombay Sapphire distillery, with a great tour guide Luke. The way the buildings have been renovated and enhanced is lovely and the botanical experience was delicious.
We're so pleased you had such a great tour with Luke and enjoyed learning about all the botanicals that go into making our gin! Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review. We hope to welcome you back again soon.
