2023 entries & winners
2023 entries & winners

Hayman's 2023 Old Tom, New Cocktail Competition

Words by Simon Difford

The Hayman family make gins using recipes that date back over 160 years with the oldest being their Old Tom, a fuller-flavoured gin compared to London dry. Despite gin's resurgence, Old Tom gins appear in comparatively few contemporary cocktail recipes. In 2023, Hayman's set out on a quest to rectify this with their "Old Tom, New Cocktail" competition.

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