Our Tasting Room will open again the first three weekends in December from 11am-5pm.
Come visit the still and sample the finest spirits of the season.  We’ll be spreading cheer and trimming the bottles with red satin ribbons.  Please join us!
6170 Old West Saanich Rd.

Holiday kisses from Victoria Spirits.

Victoria Gin was recently featured in Korea’s Bar and Dining Magazine.  We enjoyed meeting the contributors at the distillery in September and are thrilled to be included in a magazine which such incredible circulation, only thing is, we don’t know what it says!  We would love to hear from anyone with translation skills. Gun [...]

Vancouver has gone Olympic crazy!  No matter your feelings about this Olympic business, there’s reason to celebrate the cocktails it has inspired.
As well as the commemorative mixes we’ve noted already at the Four Season’s Yew Restaurant and the Chateau Fairmont in Whistler, Vancouver’s Granville Room is serving up “The Gold, Silver and Greene”.

As noted in [...]

The winter issue of Nuvo Magazine celebrates artisanal, craft-distilled gins and includes Vic Gin among the best from around the world. Columnist Jurgen Gothe affirms:
It’s really excellent stuff: peppery, aromatic…  a long and spicy finish

Besides making us thirsty, Jurgen got us thinking about the Gin toddy.  If you have a winner, share the love.  Perhaps [...]

The charming Solomon Siegel joined us last week to mix up classic Aviation cocktails at a Tourism Victoria reception.

Solomon and Valerie serve up a classic

The Aviation
~A cocktail fit for a queen
2 oz Victoria Gin
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 oz marachino liqueur
1 dash Crème de Violette
Combine ingredients in a shaker.
Add ice. Shake until the outside of [...]

Cocktail bitters, a staple in the original cocktail and long sought after by deprived mixologists in Canada, are making a comeback.
Joanne Sasvari of the Vancouver Sun highlights the options, and some of the best, including Peter’s lip smacking Twisted & Bitter cocktail bitters presented at the Art of the Cocktail event last week. Read her [...]