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20 best Gin cocktails
Gin challenges even vodka for its cocktail versatility, and as the leading spirit in vintage cocktail books there are plenty of great gin-based cocktails...
Colin Abele
11th June 2022 at 03:26
The most important gin cocktails that I make with every bottle of London dry I acquire in order to fully assess how the spirit behaves are as follows - I call them the Big Five: The Gin & Tonic, the Martini, the Negroni, the Gimlet, and the Tom Collins. Of these five, the Tom Collins is missing from this list and I feel that is an unfortunate omission.
11th June 2022 at 07:50
Strictly speaking, a Tom Collins should be made with Old Tom Gin. With London dry gin it becomes a John Collins.