Gin and Tonic Tasting - Various Locations

Discover the history of gin with this fantastic tasting experience in Southampton or Winchester. You will sample 5 differing gins and pair them with delicious tonics to find your favourite mix.
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Discover the history of gin with this fantastic tasting experience in Southampton or Winchester. You will sample 5 differing gins and pair them with delicious tonics to find your favourite mix.

Food and Drink Experience Days: As every gin lover will know, not much can beat the refreshing combination of Gin and Tonic! Now you can explore this diverse spirit with a gin and tonic tasting evening held in Winchester or Southampton. Led by the school’s resident Gin Instructor, you’ll taste a variety of gins and pair them with a range of tonics – so you can discover your favourite mix!

Your gin and tonic tasting experience will begin as you arrive at one of the cosy venues in either Southampton or Winchester. Your instructor will welcome you to the two hour class with an introduction, teaching you the colourful background of this intriguing spirit! You’ll explore the botanicals used to give each gin it’s totally unique flavour, before moving on to the tastings. Throughout the class, you will sample 5 premium gins, where you’ll learn to taste the difference between a London Dry and a Plymouth gin as you sample the wide range of flavours gins can offer. Each gin will be served with a unique tonic, so you can mix and match until you find your favourite flavour combination. By the end of the class, you will have developed a broad understanding of this wonderful spirit and you may just have discovered your new favourite gin and tonic tipple!

This gin and tonic tasting experience is the perfect experience gift for any lover of this classic combination. The class makes a great evening out for friends and is sure to open your eyes to the delicious world of gin and tonic!

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Availability

The gin and tonic classes runs once every few months at either the Southampton or Winchester venue.

Please contact a member of our customer service team to check dates prior to purchase. 

Please give as much notice as possible for bookings as these classes are very popular.

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Requirements

You must be 18 or over to take part in this gin and tonic tasting, so please bring your identification along to the session.

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Duration

Experience Duration: 2:00

Time Spent at Venue: 2:10

This gin and tonic tasting experience will last for around 2 hours, starting at 7pm.

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Group Size & Spectators

Participants: The Gin and Tonic Tasting - Various Locations is for 1 participant.

Max Group Size: 11

Spectators Allowed on Site: No

This is a shared group tasting experience.

There may be up to 20 people per session.

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Where is it Located

Multiple Locations

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What to Wear

There is no dress code for this experience, so please feel free to dress comfortably for your gin and tonic tasting evening.

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Weather

Your experience should not be affected by weather conditions as it takes place indoors.

Reviews
Kelly - Worthing
  • 14/05/2018
On Friday evening we travelled over to Southampton for a Gin & Tonic Tasting. It was brilliant! Our host, Cecile was very entertaining and you could clearly see she had a passion for Gins. Would love to try out another one of these classes!
Victoria Jones - Brighton
  • 14/05/2018
I went to the Southampton location for my Gin and Tonic Tasting and had a fantastic time! Cecile was just the ideal person to present the class, as she made it a very entertaining evening with her impressive energy and bubbly personality. I...
I went to the Southampton location for my Gin and Tonic Tasting and had a fantastic time! Cecile was just the ideal person to present the class, as she made it a very entertaining evening with her impressive energy and bubbly personality. I really can't explain how much fun this experience was and Cecile's knowledge for gin and tonic was superb. I'm defiantly going to book another of her evening tasting classes soon!
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Staff Review: Gin Tasting with Hampshire Wine School

Travelling by train from Bournemouth to Southampton, it was a short 30-minute journey, then a quick 10-minute walk to the Mercure Dolphin Hotel for our exciting Gin and Tonic Tasting experience. The hotel was beautiful, and the room hired for the event was wonderfully presented.

By each seat there were 5 gins to taste along with a variety of garnishes which looked delicious. I didn’t know very much about gin at this point, so I was looking forward to getting stuck into the event.

Once everyone had taken their seats, it was time to begin. Cecile, our wonderful host, introduced herself along with an introduction for everyone to get involved with. We went around the room saying hello to the group along with mentioning what kind of gin we like to drink. Of course, my answer was one of the more common, Bombay or Gordon’s, while Bex mentioned she preferred drinking wine over anything else. But that might have changed now!


Upon everyone introducing themselves, it was time for a brief but needed introduction to gin, including a little bit of history and the creation of this delicious spirit.

With that being completed, we began with our first gin, also known as ‘Bloom’ - the floral gin out of the five. This paired perfectly with the strawberry and the Fentiman tonic. Cecile advised that when drinking gin, we should add as much ice as possible, to stop the drink from being diluted. That ended up being a great bit of advice throughout.


Onto the gin number 2, that being the citrus gin, called NO. 3. This paired wonderfully with the Fever Tree tonic and its garnish was the grapefruit slice. This gin was delightful and extremely refreshing.

The third gin was a fruity gin called Caorunn created in Scotland.  As Cecile explained throughout, there is a chart to go by which displays different kind of gins. You have the floral, citrus, fruity, spicy and in the middle of all of that the London dry. As this is quite a neutral fruity gin, it suited the red apple garnish and Waitrose tonic.

Gin number 4, was a firm favourite for me. This was another fruity gin, it was in fact one of Gordon’s new releases. It was delicious! Cecile advised this would suit a full variety of fruits, making it more of a new kind of Pimm’s. However, we paired this with Schweppes, raspberries and mint and it went together perfectly.


The final tasting was Cecile’s favourite the spicy gin. This was called Opihar, which went deliciously with Schweppes, orange and cardamom. I must say this gin smelt like Christmas in a cup and it was scrumptious. This was also Bex’s favourite out of the five!

As the experience drew to a close, I felt like I had learnt a lot. I was especially pleased to find my new favourite fruity gin. A big thank you to Cecile for being our wonderful host. I thoroughly enjoyed this class. I loved the fact anyone could join in even if they didn’t know one thing about gin! We certainly walked away knowing a lot more and would love to come back - maybe to one of your delicious wine tasting experiences in the future.

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