Crafting the Scent of Jeju: Jeju Gotjawat Distillery Gin-Making Class

Capture the essence of Jeju's deep forests and fields in a bottle! Join a gin distillation one-day class at Jeju Gotjawat, a distillery in Seogwipo. It's an artistic journey where you'll engage all five senses to bottle the nature of Jeju, not just drink alcohol.


1. Jeju's Only Gin-Making Class

Gin is a distilled spirit flavored with juniper berries and various botanicals. Jeju Gotjawat actively uses Jeju's wild plants in this process. In the class, you'll get to touch and smell exotic yet familiar Jeju ingredients like tangerine peels, torreya nucifera, and Zanthoxylum piperitum to design your own recipe.


2. Make Your Own Gin with a Copper Still

When you enter the 'Brewing Studio' on the second floor of the workshop, you'll feel like you've stepped into an alchemist's room. Here, each participant can use a small copper still. Watch the mystical process of your chosen botanicals vaporizing and then turning back into liquid as they meet the alcohol. Smelling the intense aroma of the freshly extracted spirit and checking its proof is a unique experience only available here.


3. Gin Stories with a Distilled Spirits Expert

Jeju Gotjawat is also an agricultural company that adds fermentation technology to 'ugly' produce (rejected goods) to create new value. By sampling and smelling various domestic and international gins with the distiller leading the class and listening to the interesting stories behind the spirits, the world of distilled spirits, which seemed difficult, becomes much more approachable. After the class, you can relax and enjoy making cocktails or highballs with the gin you made.

Jeju Gotjawat's gin class 'Oh! My Gin School' is run with small groups for an in-depth experience. If you're dreaming of a special memory of bottling the scent of Jeju, not just visiting typical tourist spots, in the spring of 2026, pre-book the 'Jeju Gotjawat Gin Distillation One-Day Class' on WAUG now. The inspiration of your trip will stay in your liquor bottle for a long time.