💎 Bumping Bombay 💎 🎶

We wanted to enjoy the local experience but almost left it too late! On Monday we were fortunate enough to prebook the last remaining tour time slot for the Bombay Sapphire distillery in Laverstoke, a short 4kms from Whitchurch. As it was such a nice day, decided to walk there for our noon tour time.

This mill site has been in operation since the 10th century, starting as a corn mill. Later in the 18th century it was bought and repurposed as a paper mill. The site sat unused for many years untill Bacardi bought it. They renovated for 4 years and the Bombay gin operations and tours started here in 2014. This is the only site that produces the Bombay Sapphire gins. After distillation they ship it in tankers to Scotland to be bottled🍼

Our tour started with mixing our own Gin and Tonic, gin of our choice, then a short video about the Bombay Sapphire brand while we sipped our beverage. Then the walking tour followed, on the production process for the Gin.

The soundtrack playing in all the buildings was a refreshing chill-lounge, hence the title of this post 🥳 Our tour guide couldn't directly recommend any of the cocktails in bar since she is only 17 🙃, and 18 is the drinking age.

We followed a different route back to Whitchurch, the mill path, with a total loop trip of 10km!

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