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Ardgowan Distillery site Open Day
Ardgowan Distillery site Open Day.
About this update from Distil Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nDISTIL PLC\nCrowds descend on Ardgowan Distillery site for Open Day\n \n \nDistil plc (AIM:DIS), owner of premium drinks brands RedLeg Spiced Rum, Blackwoods Gin and Vodka, TRØVE Botanical Vodka and Blavod Black Vodka, is pleased to note that Ardgowan Distillery Company Limited (\"Ardgowan\"), hosted its first Open Day on Saturday 22 July at the distillery site in Inverkip, with representatives from Distil in attendance.\n \nThe site welcomed more than 5,000 visitors on the day from the local area and as far afield as the USA. Guests were given the opportunity to sign-up to Clan Ardgowan, pre-purchase an Ardgowan cask, and secure a limited-edition Clan Ardgowan Open Day bottling, with Master Whisky Maker, Max Mcfarlane, on hand to host whisky tastings and sign bottles.\n \nIn addition, guests were given the opportunity to tour the Blackwoods building, taste the range, and discover the newly installed still, as well as cast votes to decide its name from a shortlist evoking stories from the local area. The winning name will be revealed at a later date as part of the opening of the visitor centre, which will include a gin and vodka school where guests can try their hand at distilling their own bespoke bottlings, tasting room, bar and retail space.\n \nAlongside whisky and gin tastings, visitors were treated to live music from crowd pleasers The Laurettes, food trucks, and a pop-up bar from the Inverkip Hotel serving Ardgowan and Blackwoods cocktails.\n \nThe day was a celebration of the Ardgowan journey so far, and the local community, which the distillery will be a part of for years to come.\n \nCommenting on the Open Day, Martin McAdam, CEO Ardgowan, said: \"We are really bowled over by the local community support. We estimated that over the 5 hour period we had more than 5,000 people at the event. We served over 1,000 tastings and our special bottling for the day sold out very quickly. We really appreciate the support from the local community and the whisky fans who travelled to our event. We had people come from the USA, France, Germany, Austria, Ireland and even Perthshire!\"\n \n\"We thank people for their patience whilst waiting in the queues - they were a bit longer than we would have liked but I spoke to as many people as I could on the day and everyone had only positiv...