Zip gin

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Versatile for mixing: We believe gin is best enjoyed when mixed. Yes, there are folks who like to drink it neat, but they are in the minority. Most drinkers like their gin drinks chilled, mixed, and garnished. We set out to find London Dry gins that shone on their own in a dry martini yet could also blend well with tonic water and lime. But in a lot of cases, we found that many of the bottles we tasted were better suited to some cocktails over others.

Widely available in the US: We wanted to make sure the gins we tested were available in most liquor stores in the United States. When researching this guide, we started out searching big national liquor and wine retailer websites by zip code. Food and drinks writer and Wirecutter contributor Tammie Teclemariam and I tasted 12 gins over the course of two days. To make this test as fair as possible, I wrapped each bottle in a brown paper bag a few days before our tasting.

The tasting was completely brand-concealed for Tammie, but I also wanted to try to be as ignorant as possible to the contents inside the brown bags. It mostly worked. To judge the purest character of each gin, we first tasted them mixed into a dry martini.

We tasted each cocktail in a proper martini glass, sans garnish. Next, we mixed gin and tonics in Collins glasses, using Q Spectacular Tonic Water and a small wedge of lime. After waffling back and forth about which tonic to use, Tammie and I agreed that a proper tonic made from quinine was the best choice for this tasting. Quinine is the signature ingredient in old-school tonic water, but it has long since been absent in mass-market brands like Canada Dry and Schweppes.

We opened a fresh can for each drink so that they were all equally bubbly, and we finished them with a squeeze of fresh lime. Some gins become muted in flavor in the presence of tonic and lime.

After we whittled down our favorite gins from the first two rounds, we mixed Negronis using the top performers. A Negroni is a heavy, bitter drink that consists of gin, Campari, sweet vermouth, and a twist of orange zest.

Our top-scoring gins did not. Though its name hints otherwise, London Dry gin is defined not by geography but by process. For a gin to be classified as London Gin, the European Union legislation of spirits definitions and labeling says the flavor can come only from the botanicals added in the second distillation.

Juniper gives London Dry gin its characteristic sprucy or piney flavor. Most of the bottles we tasted for this guide are true London Dry gins, with a couple of exceptions. For instance, we ultimately decided to include Plymouth Gin, which is produced in an English city of the same name. Plymouth is technically not a London Dry gin because, up until , gin produced in Plymouth, England, was considered to be a distinct style, protected by a geographical indication like wine in France.

But that protection ended when Pernod-Ricard—the conglomerate that owns the brand Plymouth Gin, now the only gin actually produced in Plymouth— decided not to renew the designation.

Flavor-wise, Plymouth is very much like London Dry gin, but everything is a bit more smoothed out and cohesive in my mind, I picture a choreographed ballet, rather than the dance floor at a nightclub.

Lesley Stockton is a senior staff writer reporting on all things cooking and entertaining for Wirecutter. Her expertise builds on a lifelong career in the culinary world—from a restaurant cook and caterer to a food editor at Martha Stewart.

She is perfectly happy to leave all that behind to be a full-time kitchen-gear nerd. A great non-alcoholic drink tastes as complex as an alcoholic cocktail and equally celebratory. We sipped 24 non-alcoholic beverages to find the standouts.