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The best gin for a gin and tonic: Eight to try
A G&T is one of the most popular cocktails – and one of the easiest to make. But which gin should you use? Alicia Miller recommends eight great bottles from around the world to suit every taste.
Like fish and chips, gin and tonic is one of life’s classic combinations. The way gin’s resinous juniper mingles harmoniously with sweet, quinine-spiked tonic is pure magic.
Not that this pairing is staid. Just as gin has rapidly evolved with its craft distilleries and quirky botanicals, so has tonic boutique-ified. The default is no longer trusty Schweppes, or even Fever-Tree; new options have joined the mix, including Double Dutch, London Essence and Buzbee’s. In short, it’s now possible to customise your G&T to the nth degree.