Gin Island: The Enniskillen Gin Experience

What to Expect

Gin Island is a guided gin tour around Enniskillen run by Enniskillen Taste Experience, taking a small group through five of the town’s food and drink venues over the course of an evening. At each stop the group is served a cocktail made for the tour and paired with food, and the route is built around bars and kitchens a visitor working from a map would not necessarily find. The next public date is Friday 2 October 2026, with the tour running roughly once a month through the year.

The tour leans on Enniskillen’s geography. The historic centre sits on an island in the River Erne between Upper and Lower Lough Erne, which is where the name comes from and why the walking distances between venues stay short. Fermanagh has a real claim to the subject too: The Boatyard Distillery produces gin on the Lough Erne shore a few miles outside the town, and the county’s food and drink scene has built up around that in the last decade. Further public dates are listed for 27 November and 4 December 2026, and private bespoke tours can be arranged Wednesday to Friday directly with the organiser. Numbers are capped, so booking ahead is necessary rather than optional.

Good to Know

• Date: Friday 2 October 2026; further public dates on 27 November and 4 December 2026
• The start time is confirmed at booking, so check when you reserve your place
• Meeting point and route: five venues across Enniskillen town centre
• Price: £70 per person
• Includes cocktails and food pairings at each stop
• Booking through enniskillentasteexperience.com or by phone on 07734 055452
• Private group tours available Wednesday to Friday by arrangement

Getting There

Enniskillen is the county town of Fermanagh, reached on the A4 from Belfast, Dungannon and Sligo and on the A32 from Omagh and Ballinamallard. Once you are in the town the tour is entirely walkable. There is pay and display parking on Queen Elizabeth Road and at the Castle car park, both a few minutes from the main streets. Enniskillen bus station on Wellington Road handles Ulsterbus services across the county and the Bus Eireann route between Dublin and Donegal.