Take a look inside Hendrick’s Gin Palace, a new distilling home befitting a gin renowned for invention and curiosity.
Hendrick’s Gin Palace – Photo Supplied
The Hendrick’s Gin Palace and distillery in Girvan Scotland has been artfully expanded to meet the voracious global demand for Hendrick’s Gin which is infused with essences of cucumber and rose. It is an institution dedicated to exploration and discovery where Hendrick’s Master Distiller, Lesley Gracie, will have the creative freedom to experiment and conceive new Hendrick’s variants, as well as being the distilling home for the brand that arguably turned the gin world on its head and ushered in a new style of popular gins.
The distillery has doubled its capacity to meet demand and the facilities that are now available to Lesley will allow her to truly unleash her innate creative proclivities.
The Hendrick’s Gin Palace features a mysterious and enchanting walled garden which leads to a magnificent and imposing Victorian inspired palm house. This is flanked by two botanical hot houses used to cultivate a plethora of unusual botanicals and flora from around the world. There is the inner sanctum that is Lesley’s laboratory which features a curious flavour library, a lecture theatre that encourages scholarly learnings and a suitably stylish bar.
Two stunning still houses have been added, standing now at six: four Bennett stills including the original antique copper pot still hailing from 1860 and three precise replicas, and two Carter Heads including one original constructed in 1948 and one exact reproduction. The new stills have been active for almost a year producing the same liquid that tastes exactly like Hendrick’s did on the day it was launched.
William Grant & Sons, the family owned independent global sprits company, has invested £13m in the glorious expansion, a reflection of the confidence and excitement it has in the future of Hendrick’s. Innovation has always been in the brand’s DNA. It spearheaded the global gin boom and it created and continues to leads the super-premium gin category.
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