Gins – the 20 best gins

It seems that not a day goes by without yet another new gin being launched. Some are rubbish, most are OK or even good, and a rare few truly standout – those gins we rate 5+.

Back in July 2017, when the gin boom was still at base camp, we created this page to select our 20 favourites. Now we're in a new decade and the gin boom has reached the summit so I thought I'd update this page with my own personal top 20 gins.

We rate gins and indeed every other product on this site with a score out of five, with some exceptional tasting products that also have great packaging, provenance and integrity, distinguished by a 5+ rating. We presently have more than 35 gins we rate as 5+. There was a time when I could proudly say that I had personally sampled every gin of note made globally but as the numbers of gins have exploded that has become an impossible quest. However, the following 20 are gins that I know well and rate as my favourites.

1. Adnams First Rate Gin

2. Beefeater 24 Gin

3. Brentingby Gin

4. Brookies's Byron Dry Gin

5. Caorunn Gin

6. City of London Christopher Wren Gin

7. Copperhead Gin The Gibson Edition

8. Cotswolds Dry Gin

9. Fords Gin

10. Gretchen Distilled Gin

11. Haymans English Cordial Gin

12. No. 209 Gin

13. No. 3 London Dry Gin

14. Plymouth Original Strength Gin

15. Rutte Celery Gin

16. Anno Kent Dry Gin

17. Sipsmith London Dry Gin

18. Stranger & Sons Gin

19. Tanqueray London Dry Gin

20. Tosolini GinT