As the foodie favourite that is the Cowbridge Food and Drink Festival returns across the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend (May 25-26th), South Wales’ leading distillery is back on board as sponsor, adding a little ‘spice’ to this year’s event!
Promising to be a whole weekend of foodie, family-friendly fun, Hensol Castle Distillery – South Wales’ only full-scale spirit distillery, visitor experience, gin school and bottling plant in a 17th century castle – will for the fourth year play a key role, introducing festival goers to even more of its hugely popular product range.
As well as festival favourites, including the renowned Hensol Castle Dry Gin and last year’s World Gin Awards Wales flavoured winner ‘Wild Strawberry and Hibiscus’, visitors can look forward to spicing things up with a taste of the more recently introduced Hensol Castle Spiced Rum alongside a fantastic first for 2025 with Hensol Castle Vodka and Hensol Castle X Cardiff City FC 1899 making their debut appearance.
Both vodkas – the latter being a special limited edition in celebration of Cardiff City’s 125th anniversary – are blended at the castle using the purest water sourced straight from the Brecon Beacons, suitably savoured neat or in a refined cocktail!
Since last year’s festival, the distillery has also launched its ‘Spiced Rum Making Experience’ – perfect for rum enthusiasts seeking a unique way to learn more about their favourite tipple – starting with a tour of the distillery, a masterclass on the perfect blending of spices and flavours with the team’s skilled distillers, followed by a tasting or two and leaving with a personally crafted bottle.
Speaking about the distillery’s involvement with this year’s festival, managing director Chris Leeke said:
“The Cowbridge Food and Drink Festival is a perfect fit for us and with so many exciting new things to shout about since we were here last year, it’s a great platform to showcase our increasing range.
“The Spiced Rum has been proving such a hit which is fantastic and the whole ‘making experience’ at the castle fits so well alongside the other tours; it’s lovely to welcome visitors to really see and experience it for themselves.
“Our vodka range will be a first for Cowbridge this year so we’re really looking forward to bringing something new to festival goers and hearing their feedback.
“We’ve had such a great response each year and are delighted to be involved again for 2025.”
Cowbridge Food and Drink Festival manager, Tracy James-Lieberman added:
“It’s fantastic that Hensol Castle Distillery has chosen to join us again this year – our festival goers are in for a real treat; just like the festival, the distillery provides a fantastic visitor experience, adding more and more each year.
“We’re really looking forward to having the team on site; we already love the gin and rum ranges so to have something brand new to try with the vodka is just great – we’ll be first in the queue!”
