Slingsby Gin and Hotel du Vin create ‘gin suites’

Harrogate-based Slingsby Gin have partnered with a number of Hotel du Vin’s sites to create a series of gin-inspired hotel suites, complete with living botanicals and a mini gin bar.

The multi-sensory rooms are adorned with plants from floor to ceiling and have been put together by award-winning Chelsea Flower Show garden designer, Matthew Wilson.

The so-called ‘Ginspiration Suites,’ are installed in Hotel du Vin sites in Wimbledon, Brighton, Birmingham, York and Harrogate. While each one is unique, guests can enjoy hanging sky planters, vintage suitcases filled with herbs and copper details. Each suite contains a grapefruit tree, one of the main botanicals in Slingsby.

Full size bottles of Slingsby London Dry and Rhubarb gins grace the bars in each of the rooms, with garnishes and tonics available from a bar trolley.

Wilson has designed two show gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, winning the People’s Choice Award in 2016 for his show garden ‘God’s Own Country – A Garden for Yorkshire’.

Wilson commented: “This has been an extremely fun project to work on, using the 24 botanicals found in Slingsby to utterly transform five of Hotel du Vin’s stunning suites into the dream hotel room for a gin lover. The idea was to bring Slingsby’s picturesque Harrogate home to life in each suite with the restorative feel of the design and emphasis on being the perfect place to unwind, indulge and relax with a delicious G&T”.

Clare Whitaker, marketing director of Spirit of Harrogate, added: “This partnership with boutique hotel brand Hotel du Vin is a match made in heaven for Slingsby and we are absolutely delighted with the suites we’ve created alongside the supremely talented gardener Matthew Wilson. We wanted to collaboratively create luxury suites that would be the dream hotel rooms for gin lovers to reside in and feel we have created exactly that with the botanical designs and copper gin distillery touches”.

The Slingsby Ginspiration Suites are available to book from 25 June to 30 September, via the Hotel du Vin website.