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We have launched our new Sparkly Christmas Gin Tastings!What better way to get in the festive mood than a gin tasting in one of the UK’s most Christmassy cities?The Sparkly York Gin Christmas Tasting is a festive, fun, fascinating and sparkly treat in the beautiful home of York Gin.As well as a Christmas gin cocktail (with edible gold!), you’ll taste the whole York Gin range, learn lots and laugh lots.Here’s what you get with the hour-long Sparkly York Gin Christmas Tasting: Welcome cocktail 'F …

International Gin & Tonic Day is celebrated around the world on 19 October.Here's an easy guide to make the perfect gin and tonic - the key is quality ingredients.So as well as premium tonic, you need an excellent gin - buy a bottle of our London Dry gin. It's a smooth, rounded and complex London Dry gin that is the perfect gin for a G&T.International G&T DayThis day is inspired by an old American lady whose family sneaked a G&T into hospital for her - and hid it in her …

York Gin has been shortlisted for two sets of prestigious newspaper awards as we enter the final quarter of 2021.The are:- The Yorkshire Post Excellence in Business Awards (in the Young Business category)and - The York Press Business Awards ( for Employer of the Year)Winners of the Yorkshire Post awards will be announced at a glittering black tie ceremony on 17 November at Headingley Stadium.Meanwhile, winners of the York Press awards will be announced on 25 November at a black tie event at …

Yorkshire gins and gin distilleriesYorkshire gins are among the best in the world.There are dozens of Yorkshire gin companies. But of all the gin distilleries Yorkshire calls its own, which are the best?Who makes the best Yorkshire gins?Some Yorkshire gin companies like Masons, York Gin and Slingsby, are winning the highest international awards.Yorkshire gin makers really are now some of the leading lights in the English craft gin industry and the world's premium gin industry.For example, most g …

Gin isn't vodka - because it must have a particular taste (juniper) to be classified as gin. Vodka is defined as being a spirit without a definite aroma or taste.Gin is made from a neutral spirit that is then distilled with juniper berries (and usually other botanicals) which give gin its particular flavour profile. Vodka is also made from neutral spirit but (apart from flavoured vodkas) nothing is added to change its flavour profile.So while they can start from the same neutral spirit, gin take …