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York is a city of outlaws - Guy Fawkes was born here. Dick Turpin was hanged here.It’s even home to the super-strength York Gin Outlaw which comes with a warning: 'Drink, with ice, tonic … and care!'Now - for one night only - one of the UK’s baddest drag queens will be celebrating all that’s naughty, villainous and defiantly outrageous about York and its outlaws.Cabaret superstar Velma Celli, ‘a true icon of drag’, who's wowed audiences from New York to London and beyond, will host an evening of …

Gin-loving train travellers on the country’s East Coast mainline have a new reason to stop at York station - gin tastings.The hour-long events in the station’s York Gin shop on the main concourse include tasters of six different gins and two full G&Ts.Experts teach tips on tasing gin like a pro and share gin’s amazing stories and legends. They’re billed as ‘fun, fascinating and delicious’.More info and bookYork is almost equidistant from London Kings Cross and Edinburgh Waverley on the East …

New online polling suggests a fifth of gin drinkers are taking the month off from their favourite tipple.York Gin conducted polls on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram on 10th January asking the following question:Are you going dry or drinking dry gin this month?The Twitter results were as follows:Dry January: 20%Dry Ginuary: 80%The numbers were higher on York Gin co-founder Emma Godivala’s professional LinkedIn account - with 28% responding that they were taking part in Dry January.An Instagram st …

For Christmas cocktails, the prettier, the sparklier or the warmer the better.You'll find all these cocktails in York - at our Sparkly Gin Tasting, at the pop-up bars around the Christmas Fair and in several bars.But we wanted to show you how to make them at home too. The only kit you need is a cocktail shaker!Top of the list is the Fairytale of Old York - the most festive cocktail we’ve ever made.Gin, Grenadine and lime juice in a sugar-rimmed glass. (Use edible gold if you’re fe …

The York Gin railway station shop has officially opened - with the Lord Mayor, Sherif and Town Crier all in attendance.The Town Crier made a proclamation to celebrate the opening to an assembled crowd of 40-plus humans and two York Gin dogs, Inigo and Sonny (both looking dapper in York Gin coats).In his proclamation the Town Crier said it had been a ‘true York effort’.Dignitaries, craftspeople who helped to create the beautiful shop and the York Gin team wrote on a selfie wall to mark the occasi …