Pienaar & Son Distilling Co.
Normal Price: Adult – R95
What you get: Free Gin Tasting – Empire, Orient and Ugly Gin
Experience Cape Town’s favourite gin distillery
Taste crafted gin as you learn about the process of distilling and the beautiful ingredients that are used while you enjoy the taste of several prepared cocktails.
Pienaar & Son Distilling Co. Highlights
- Visit an inner-city distillery making uniquely South African liquors
- Learn about the bespoke process of distilling gin
- Taste two gins made with local ingredients
OVERVIEW
Experience Cape Town’s favourite gin distillery. Learn about the process of distilling and how these locals make their stand-out gins in an engaging and educating tour that ends with a generous tasting. Get up close to their bespoke, one-of-a-kind distilling equipment and sample their multiple award-winning liquors. The tours are led by friendly staff who will take you through the distilling process, and ensure you leave with some new knowledge about your favourite drinks.
HISTORY
Pienaar and Son is a small craft distillery founded by a father with over 40 years͛ of experience and his son. Their focus is on finding fresh ways to create and introduce people to modern spirits.
Finding inspiration in the traditional methods of distilling, Pienaar and Son use bespoke, hand-built equipment and cutting-edge processes to produce great tasting gins and vodka. Their signature range of Empire and Orient gins and Waskis vodka uses South African maize and local botanicals.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Hours: Thursday – Sunday 11:00- 17:00
Closed: 20 Dec to 5 Jan
Phone: +27 (0)72 759 9928
Website: www.pienaarandson.co.za
THINGS TO KNOW
ADVICE FOR VISITORS
New gin drinkers will love Pienaar and Son’s Orient, a starter gin that is an ode to the spice trade that influenced Cape Town’s culture and cuisine. It boasts sweet and spicy flavours, with a hint of herbs and a refreshing finish.
Those who know a thing or two about gin will love the Empire gin. A dry, refreshing spirit with flavours of grapefruit, cucumber, and cardamom, it’s inspired by the original British versions of gin brought to Cape Town.
DID YOU KNOW
Gin and tonic are a famous cocktail combination, and one with maritime history. Using quinine mixed with carbonated water, an enterprising sailor invented tonic water to ward off the outbreaks of malaria in the British naval empire. Another enterprising individual added gin, and the famous drink was invented. It soon became the staple drink of the colonial settlers, and you can still see Capetonians today enjoying a ͚G&T͛ as a sundowner.
