





Wowsers, May was one hell of a month! Read on to catch up with everything I’ve been up to and also a few of the most exciting new gin releases.
Continue readingWowsers, May was one hell of a month! Read on to catch up with everything I’ve been up to and also a few of the most exciting new gin releases.
Continue readingA brilliant trip to the States and some exciting new releases means there’s plenty to catch up on in April’s Gin Monthly.
Continue readingLast month was so mega busy I’ve somehow got to mid-April without publishing my March Gin Monthly, so here it finally is – better late than never and all that!
Continue readingThe original and the biggest gin-themed social media challenge is back for its fifth year running! In 2019, #GinADayMay’s inaugural year, in excess of 4,000 images were posted on Instagram using the #GinADayMay hashtag, averaging at approximately 135 posts a day. With consistent global engagement ever since, there are now almost 22,000 tagged posts on Instagram and I’m hoping for another successful year in 2023.
Continue readingIf you’re a fan of Hendrick’s Gin you’ll be familiar with their limited-edition releases from their Cabinet of Curiosities, the first of which – Midsummer Solstice – was launched in 2017. Today, as we prepare to bid farewell to Lunar Gin, it’s time to welcome their latest creation: Hendrick’s Flora Adora!
Continue readingFebruary might be the shortest month but I still seem to have packed a lot in. Read on to hear all about it, as well as the latest release from Hendrick’s Cabinet of Curiosities!
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This year’s top ten strikes me as rather different to my last six, with notably fewer new releases, so it seems as good a time as ever to clarify how I’ve gone about choosing these gins over the years. It goes without saying they need to be exceptional (in my personal opinion!) but beyond that the only other (self-imposed) rule is that gins can only feature in my top ten once. Ideally they are gins I know well (which, more often than not, means I have a bottle in my collection) but they don’t have to be new releases; just new(ish) to me. So, with that (hopefully) cleared up, and without further ado, here are the top ten gins I enjoyed last year (and a few honourable mentions too)…
Continue readingJanuary is long isn’t it? And I haven’t even been trying to do Dry January. If you have, congratulations, and you might want to break your fast before you read what I’ve been up to this month!
Continue readingWell here we are again: another year over, a new one just begun. Here’s my round-up of booze news and new gin alerts from December 2022. Enjoy!
Continue readingWhat a month! Without a doubt the highlight was visiting the Hendrick’s Gin Palace so prepare for lots and lots and lots of pics before you read on!
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