A South Wales-based gin distillery, situated within the cellars of a 400-year-old fortress, celebrates its first birthday this month by being listed within the high 10% of vacationer sights worldwide, after having been awarded a 2022 Tripadvisor Vacationers’ Selection Award.
Hensol Citadel Distillery, located on the property of the four-star Vale Resort, scooped the honour after receiving high traveller evaluations from guests, which had been shared on Tripadvisor during the last 12 months. It’s the highest honour that the world’s largest journey steerage platform can bestow.
Hensol Citadel Distillery opened its customer expertise in September 2021, following a multi-million pound funding. As a part of the tour, guests can see the distillery in operation, study in regards to the historical past of gin and Hensol Citadel, get pleasure from a gin tasting and a gin and tonic on the finish of the tour. Within the Gin Faculty, guests can distil and label their very personal 70cl bottle of gin utilizing substances of their selection.
Because it launched, Hensol Citadel Distillery’s customer expertise has welcomed just below 10k guests by means of the door from as far afield as Canada, USA and Germany, who’ve tasted greater than 25k glasses of gin and distilled greater than 2.5 million bottles.
Stephanie Metson, advertising supervisor at Hensol Citadel Distillery, stated:
“We’ve solely been open for a yr so to be awarded this high honour by Tripadvisor is extraordinarily rewarding.
“Our proficient group work tirelessly to supply an incredible expertise to guests, which has resulted in over 100 five-star Tripadvisor evaluations, and this recognition is an actual testomony to their dedication, ardour and enthusiasm.
“We’re at all times working onerous to make the expertise for company the easiest it may be, and we look ahead to seeing what the following 12 months maintain.”
The Tripadvisor award comes sizzling on the heels of a clutch of different business awards that Hensol Citadel Distillery has secured over the previous 12 months. It scooped Silver Medals on the London Spirits Competitors in March [2022] for its two flavoured gins – The Wild Strawberry and Hibiscus Gin and the Blood Orange Zest Gin, whereas the Hensol Citadel Welsh Dry Gin additionally gained a gold medal on the Spirits Enterprise Awards in December [2021].
Hensol Citadel Distillery is South Wales’s first full-scale gin and spirits distillery and contract bottling plant and is the one distillery in a seventeenth century fortress. Since beginning manufacturing in spring 2019, it has loved speedy progress, dealing with an ever-expanding order ebook for contract bottling; launching an on-trade assortment of gins and vodkas in addition to Trulo – its market-defining vary of lowered calorie alcoholic drinks.
Hensol Citadel Distillery’s vary is now accessible all through eating places, pubs and bars in South Wales, together with the Hardwick, Pasture and the Potted Pig eating places, and it has struck sponsorship offers with Cardiff Metropolis Soccer Membership and Glamorgan Cricket to change into the official gin provider of each golf equipment.
Kanika Soni, chief industrial officer at Tripadvisor, stated:
“Congratulations to the 2022 Tripadvisor Vacationers’ Selection Winners.
“The Vacationers’ Selection Awards recognise the most effective in tourism and hospitality, in response to those that matter most. Rating among the many Vacationers’ Selection winners is at all times robust — however by no means extra so than this yr, as we emerge from the pandemic. Whether or not it is utilizing new know-how, implementing security measures or hiring excellent employees, I’m impressed by the steps taken to satisfy travellers’ new calls for.”
To see customer evaluations of Hensol Citadel Distillery, go to www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g1077133-d20223432-Evaluations-Hensol_Castle_Distillery-Hensol_Vale_of_Glamorgan_South_Wales_Wales.html
To ebook a gin tour or gin-making expertise at Hensol Citadel Distillery, go to: www.hensolcastledistillery.com/gin-experiences/
