Shakespeare Distillery is celebrating after scooping two latest awards regardless of a really difficult 12 months which has seen the enterprise go from energy to energy. The unbiased artisan spirit producer has been awarded the Journey Advisor Travellers’ Alternative Award 2021 and has additionally been awarded a silver medal within the Worldwide Wine & Spirit Competitors 2021 for its Jester White Rum which was the joint highest positioned British made unaged white rum.
The Rum was awarded a excessive scoring 90 factors out of a doable 100 and the judges summed up the rum as being “extremely drinkable and packed stuffed with tropical fruit flavours”. Shakespeare Distillery launched their Jester White Rum in April adopted carefully by their Jester Spiced Rum in June. The Distillery is proud to be one among solely a handful of distilleries within the UK to create their rum in its entirety onsite. British molasses is slowly fermented of their massive fermenter ‘Titania’ to craft a flavoursome base rum, earlier than being twice distilled to create a really clean, handcrafted British spirit.
Every year, Tripadvisor, the world’s largest journey web site, pulls collectively all of the evaluations and scores that travellers share from throughout the globe and makes use of that data to highlight one of the best. Traveller’s Alternative recognises companies that earn constantly nice person evaluations and winners are ranked among the many prime 10% of companies on Tripadvisor. As difficult because the previous 12 months was, Shakespeare Distillery stood out by constantly delighting travellers. 96% of holiday makers have rated their expertise as ‘glorious’. The experiences on the multi-award-winning customer centre at the moment are operating at regular capability and these embody Distillery Excursions, Gin Faculties, Cocktail Masterclasses and River Avon Gin Cruises.
The Distillery has additionally not too long ago launched two distillery specials – Limoncello and Orangecello. The group have been busy experimenting with completely different flavours and spirits to create these scrumptious new spirits that are a restricted version. The Limoncello has a pointy lemon style with delicate sweetness and the Orangecello, captures the candy nature of scrumptious Mediterranean oranges.
Along with their onsite distillery store, Shakespeare Distillery spirits will be bought at their No 1 Excessive Road retailer in Stratford. The Distillery opened this new store on the top of the pandemic final 12 months and have been one among a handful of unbiased retailers opening in
Stratford city centre throughout this time. This resulted in a latest recruitment drive which has included the employment of two distillery assistants by means of the Authorities Kickstart Scheme.
Peter Monks, Director at Shakespeare Distillery stated “Our rising group are completely delighted to have received these two awards and have one thing to have a good time. We’re immensely happy with the constructive suggestions that now we have obtained and wish to thank everybody that has taken the time to go away a evaluation on Tripadvisor. Profitable silver within the IWSC is testomony to our sensible group who work extremely exhausting in producing a top quality, domestically made Rum. As one of many few producers making rum utterly from scratch, appreciable time, effort, and fervour has been invested within the creation of Jester White Rum and this recognition is testomony to that”.
Shakespeare Distillery is not any stranger to successful awards, final 12 months the corporate received the New Tourism Enterprise Award within the West Midlands Tourism Awards for his or her vacation spot distillery experiences.
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