When picking a bottle of booze, it’s often about what’s inside the bottle, not out. You’re buying a gin for its ability to bolster a martini, not for the label. If you do buy a bottle for ...

Caorunn's London Dry is made with five locally-foraged botanicals, and only in small batches, so it's a genuine craft gin - but a 70cl bottle costs just £30, which is a really good price.

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Yes, you could just pick up a favorite bottle for that cutting-edge friend ... I'd recommend gifting them our new Acrónimo gin, the world's first gin finished with sotol—an 800-year-old ...