My experience at this distillery was disappointing. My wife and I have been to about 10 different…read moredistilleries in the last couple years, and this tour was not up to par. Every distillery tour we have been on other than the Canadian Club tour in Windsor, has been free. The Canadian Club tour is $5 and well worth it. This tour was $10, but considering our remote location, I figured it was the price of doing business. The drive out to the distillery was lovely, but on PEI just about everything is and we arrived a few minutes before the next tour. It's a small operation, which is just fine, and the whole operation is in one building. They took us around the back of the building and gave us a tour of their operation, which is fine. The operation is small but efficient, everything was immaculately clean, no complaints there. The tour guide was very nice and did her best to answer our questions, anything that wasn't on her script was problematic, but overall she was nice. After the tour which is was about 10-15 minutes we went inside and had our tastings. They have six different products to choose from, a potato vodka, blue berry vodka, gin, rye, whiskey and rum. Each person is allowed two tastings, so if you came with another person (everyone that day had), you can taste four things between the two of you. The size of the pour was not very big, and in all honesty was very difficult to split between two people. The taste of the liquor was fine, in my opinion the best thing there was the gin, nothing else really stuck out or knocked my socks off. The cheapest 750ml was $48 and went up from there.
So, in all honesty, the tour was adequate and if it had been free, I would have no complaints at all about the quality of the tour, but the tour was $10, and that is my complaint. I didn't leave the tour feeling like I had received $10 worth of tour. I don't want to get drunk on the tour, but the amount provided in the tasting was very low, and hard to split between two people. The tour had no real production value, they just showed you their operation, which allowing for an increase in height, could fit in your garage. So, I left feeling like I had squandered my money. I would have accepted that $10 was just the price of a tour on PEI, but my wife and I went to a lovely distillery several miles away in Rollo Bay named, "The Myriad View", that was wonderful. Same size operation, but the woman who operates the distillery was onsite and personally gave us a tour of the distillery, answered all of our questions and let us taste each of her 8 offerings, some of them multiple times so we could decide which one appealed to us the most, and it was all free. So, my conclusion is that the Prince Edward Distillery is not worth the money, and if you want to take a tour just go to Rollo Bay.