Make your own gin and tonic — theguardian.com

Every time we throw a cocktail party, the same thing happens: all the gin gets drunk and we end up with extra bottles of vodka. It’s little wonder – gin is the most important cocktail base according to David Embury, the author of the seminal cocktail book, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks (1948). Gin, he says, will “blend satisfactorily with all manner of other flavours”. To test his claim, you only need to flick through any modern cocktail book to see just how many gin-based cocktails there are. Many of the classics use it – the martini, Tom Collins, the negroni – not to mention the gin and tonic.

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