VINTAGE SPIRITS FESTIVAL - old, rare, vintage and exclusive spirits

A spirits festival dedicated to the old, rare, exclusive, special, unique spirits of this world. A gathering of likeminded people who prefer open bottles over closed ones and enjoy sharing drams to remember with friends. A place to create liquid memories.

Vintage Spirits Festival focuses on quality, not quantity, and so we invite a very select group of exhibitors and their bottles to the festival.

The location is the beautiful heritage site of De Hoorn. It is a former brewery and offers the perfect atmosphere to let your drams taste even better.

Each visitor is welcomed as a friend. With your ticket, you will get a tasting glass and a good starting amount of tokens (40 tokens, value = 50 euro). Sample bottles are available too, if you want to take home some of the gems on offer.

We will limit the number of exhibitors to a maximum of 12, to ensure a relaxed atmosphere. We will also limit the number of tickets sold, for the same reason: we want a nice and relaxed atmosphere among spirits-lovers!

You will find the line-up of exhibitors on our website!

TWO SPECIAL MASTERCLASSES

Each exhibitor offers up one bottle that means something to them, and these bottles will be opened for masterclasses during the festival. These will be held in the special tasting room in the Skybox at the seventh floor, with a fantastic view of Leuven. We'll add the line-ups and ticket sales later, but you can join a masterclass at 13.00h and 16.00h! Signing up for one of these can be done through the ticketing system.

ONE UNIQUE EXPERIENCE THE DAY BEFORE THE FESTIVAL

For those of you who want to start on Friday already, we have something truly special. In collaboration with Whisky Warehouse (Ellen and Eric Vermeire) we offer a once in a lifetime masterclass of 6 closed distilleries bottlings, hosted by Eric Vermeire and Stephen Rankin, 4th generation family member of Gordon & MacPhail and Director of Prestige at G&M.

The line-up:

Connoisseurs Choice Upper Littlemill 31yo (1991-2023), Connoisseurs Choice Upper Glen Esk 38yo (1984-2023), G&M Private Collection Linlithgow 40yo (1982-2023), G&M Private Collection Caperdonich 43yo (1979-2023), G1M Private Collection Banff 46yo (1976-2023) and G&M Private Collection Port Ellen 42yo (1981-2023). Price for this tasting: 800€.

To join this exclusive masterclass, get in touch with Eric or Ellen at Whiskywarehouse (mail Ellen or mail Eric)

Info and tickets for Vintage Spirits Festival 2024: www.vintagespiritsfestival.be

Vintage Spirits Festival is organized by Meug.