Dedicated to exploration, discovery and innovation, the new additions to the distilling home of Hendrick’s gin have culminated as a new ‘Gin Palace’, built to meet global demand for the gin that “turned the gin world on its head”.

William Grant & Sons, owners of the Hendrick’s brand, have always celebrated innovation and have unveiled the Palace as a platform for invention, and a symbol of its confidence in the future of Hendrick’s gin.

Complete with hot houses, a flavour library, two extra still houses, a laboratory, a lecture theatre and gin bar, the Gin Palace is an architecturally designed, conservatory-esque distillery, which has been artfully expanded to encourage creative freedom and experimentation.

The new distilling home has doubled in size and will be the space where Master Distiller, Lesley Gracie will experiment and conceive new Hendrick’s variants from a range of extraordinary facilities now available to her.

“I’ve been distilling Hendrick’s for almost 20 years and during that time, my team and I have had the opportunity to explore and experiment on a small scale. However, I am thrilled and excited to take full advantage of our wonderful new distillery and begin working on a line of experimental liquids, some of which will hopefully blossom into future releases and potential new expressions of Hendrick’s,” she says.

For those of us who can’t make it to Scotland, Hendrick’s will open a Victoria-era pop-up bar from October 19 until November 18. The Hendrick’s Assistance Dispensary for Advantageous Cocktail Mixing Bar will occupy the Tilbury Deck in Woolloomoo – just one of the places in Sydney serving specialty Hendrick’s cocktails as well as Hendrick’s new, limited edition, experimental and reimagined gin, Orbium.