The Gin & Tonic Experience
During our popular 2-hour Gin & Tonic experience, you’ll immerse yourself in the world of botanicals and create heavenly aromatic drinks while your personal 1 litre of gin is distilled on-site.
Our most popular event, the Gin and Tonic Experience will see you create heavenly scented botanical gins to celebrate your special day or bring your team together for a day of fun-filled competition.
We will start by introducing you to 10 botanical ingredients used in a classic gin. We will take you through their history and what they add to the flavour. You will taste, chew, crunch and smell your way through a very hands-on experience.
Then you will discover the wildcard ingredients – something unique, unusual and unexpected to try. These will give your gin a unique flavour and will help you create a distinctive product that’s just for you and your group.
While your bespoke gin is distilling, you will also use The Botanical Distillery’s “gin library” to freestyle a number of different flavoured gins and experience how a full range of ingredients can alter the finished product. This is a time to relax and taste the complexities of the gin you create.
At the end of the Gin and Tonic Experience your group will take away one litre of the artisan gin distilled on the day by you and The Botanical Distillery.
“Really interesting and gave great insight into the gin making process! Loved the elements of tasting the ingredients.”
Tracy, Roche
“Hi Helen and Jill, I just wanted to say thank you for giving the Voco group such a fabulous Gin & Tonic Experience. They loved it and here’s some feedback I received yesterday.”
“I cannot thank you enough for all your help on Thursday with our event. Both teams loved the Great Escape and there were discussions today about how some of us could purchase our own still to distill gin. Would highly recommend the combination of both these activities to other groups. We all had an excellent time and hopefully it won’t be too long before we return to Waiheke Island.” Elly
Karen Webb
Director, Destination Waiheke and Elly, Voco
“Thank you so much for taking my group on an amazing foraging tour/tutorial of the Waiheke bush as well as teaching us how to do hydrosols, distillates, bitters, and tonics! It was super fun and educational. I thought it was challenging and I have been bartending for quite a while. You ladies did such a good job. It was engaging, interactive and you both were so lovely and patient with us. I can’t tell you what an awesome time I had!”
Alison Kwan
World Class Cocktail Entrant, World Class Cocktails
“Thank you so much for yesterday Helen and Jill. Nikki and I had a wonderful time and really enjoyed the Gin and Tonic Experience.”
Liz Hancock
Beauty Director
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