Blue Bottle London Dry Gin 47%, 70cl

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We love this bottle design from our friends over at Audemus Spirits who also created another gin on this list – Pink Pepper! Hidden in open view on St Michael’s Hill, Psychopomp producescraft distilled gin in small batches and limited quantities. Get geeky about gin making in their weeklyGin School. Lessons include a tutored tasting, recipe development and distilling your very own gin. Bristol Dry Gin There is a beautiful gin inside this distinct green bottle with its red wax seal. Tanqueray's crisp, dry style is the benchmark for a London dry gin without any citrus in the botanicals. It is a standard to which all other gins are compared and contrasted and also sells for a reasonable price. He learned some of this alchemy when researching gin before the establishment of the Three Fingers Distillery, the outfit that Randall’s investors helped fund as a logical expansion of the brewery. On a one-litre still, Matt tested the distilled qualities of 35 individual botanicals, immediately eliminating 15 of those and modifying the combinations and quantities of the remaining 20 to find the ultimate recipe for Three Fingers’ first spirit.

In the run up to his PhD and post-doc studies in hematopoiesis (the formation of blood cell components from stem cells), Matt spent a summer at Cambridge University on a Royal Society internship studying bugs, specifically flies, and even more specifically, blue bottle flies. Under the microscope, he found the indigo wings of these household nuisances to shimmer intricate patterns of iridescence unique to the majesty of nature, patterns that people peeved by the pest do not perceive. You can also explore the effects of aging on gin—something most gin is not subjected to—with Martin Miller's 9 Moons. This bottling rests the gin in previously used bourbon barrels for nine months to give it a fascinating sweetness of vanilla and oak. If you enjoy the standard bottle of Beefeater, keep an eye out for the brand's special bottlings. They make an appearance from time to time, and each is worth a taste when the bottle crosses yourpath. Beefeater 24, for example, is a regular offering that is a nice upgrade from the original and the brand often comes out with limited editions. With sales of gin fizzing, we take a look at some of these British spirit innovators who are based on the coast and find out how the location shapes their product.

Like many other brands, Bols has expanded their genever selection. Beyond the original, you can find barrel-aged bottles, which are rested in French Limousin oak casks for 18 months. Fun fact: the bottle design was inspired by an old Victorian hip flask found at Notting Hill Market!]

We do love a bit of Opihr at the end of a long Monday, but since their new Ready To Drink Range launched this year we have been obsessed. I mean look at these bottles, they’re beautiful! Once a week we’ll be carefully selecting a bottle of something alcoholic to be our 'drink of the week'. Bottles you’ve probably not tried, made in small batches, by producers who are dedicated to their craft and worth sipping to support...

Aviation is produced in Portland, Oregon, by House Spirits Distillery. It is distilled from neutral grain spirit with 100 percent rye base, an unusual beginning in the gin market. It's flavored with juniper, anise seed, Elettaria cardamom, coriander, lavender, sweet orange peel, and sarsaparilla. It, too, is slightly overproofed, bottled at 42 percent ABV (84 proof), so it's not as delicate as it's often made out to be. Last week, locally-produced Wheadon’s Gin was showcased at the world premiere of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society in London.