The summer of gin

We bring you gin news, expertise, tasting notes, plus 15 delicious gin cocktail recipes

Perhaps it started on a long weekend in Spain, the kind we Irish excel at. It may have involved a large balloon glass, filled with gin and tonic, handed over the bar. It got us thinking. Was there more to gin, after all?

Today, Ireland is in the height of the Ginaissance. The trend that says 40 million Britons bought a bottle of gin last year (that’s equivalent to more than a £1 ...