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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 Coas …

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 …

What is the best way to drink gin - or how do you taste gin like a pro?The simple answer is to use your nose as well as your tongue, to use all of your tongue's tastebuds - and to really concentrate on your experience. Keep these tips in mind - and you'll start to get way more from your gin tasting.This is the advice we offer during the York Gin Tasting Experience in our 16th Century shop in York. Invariably, attendees tell us the tasting tips we provide fundamentally change the way they dr …