The Wessex Spirits Distillery

Kate was 38 when she launched Test Valley Gin at The Greyhound in Stockbridge. Her plan was to make gin for a year then return to teaching once her kids went to school. That was her business plan: give it a go! No plan for growth, no plan for VAT, no business, sales, marketing experience, no ability to count or knowledge how to make stuff, no plan for success: nothing! 

So she gave it a go and is, more than seven years later, still going and producing some lovely and popular gins, like her original gin, the Test Valley Gin, along with some other spirits.