Some of the best classic cocktails are made with gin. These are some of our favorite gin cocktails, from riffs on the classic Negroni or Martini to familiar favorites like the Gimlet and Gin & Tonic.
Prairie Rose is Food & Wine's senior drinks editor. A trained sommelier, cocktail book author, and wine and spirits educator, in addition to Food & Wine she is also the senior editor of Liquor.com.Gimlet
The cocktail first appeared in print in the late 1920s in the throes of Prohibition, but was likely invented decades before and included Cognac as its base spirit instead of gin.This iconic New Orleans cocktail combines gin, heavy cream, egg white, lemon and lime juices, orange flower water, vanilla extract, and soda water.
Thought to have been created by Hugo Ensslin, head bartender at the Hotel Wallick in New York City in the early 20th century, this floral cocktail gets its unique color and flavor from a violet liqueur with a purple hue and a heavily perfumed profile.The Gin & Tonic is one of the most popular highballs and the most well-known cocktail featuring gin. This bubbly tall drink simply combines one-part botanical-rich gin with two-parts tonic, an effervescent soda known for its quinine bite.
The drink recently found a spotlight with claims that it was Taylor Swift's favorite cocktail but was likely created sometime in the mid-2000s. Sweet and floral French fortified wine, Lillet Blanc is the primary spirit in this drink with a smaller proportion of gin added as a sturdy backbone.This pre-Prohibition cocktail is part of a family of drinks said to have been created as a hangover "cure," a morning pick-me-up after a night of imbibing.
Since the 19th century, the Martini has been one of the best-known cocktails. Though it could be made with gin or vodka, the juniper-forward spirit is the classic choice. Drinks historians most often credit the original recipe to Long Bar bartender, Ngiam Tong Boon, who is said to have shaken the first Sling. The Singapore Sling is supposedly a variant of the Gin Sling — a small, single-serving punch.
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