These are the top 5 gins perfect Christmas 2025, as chosen by us!
We’ve picked some of our favourite new gins and some classics to enjoy over Christmas, with tips on how to enjoy them. So, whether you’re a Martini lover or adore a G&T, there will be something here for you.
The gin world does not stand still. Every week, we are inundated with great offerings from new producers and new offerings from great producers. It’s an exciting time to be a gin lover. But all that choice can be a bit daunting. So, we’ve rounded up some of our favourite gins, both new and classic, to enjoy in the sun this summer.
There’s everything here from vibrant Mediterranean-style gins to complex port cask-aged spirits; we’ve included tiny producers and global brands. If it’s delicious and contains juniper, then it’s a contender. All of them will make a great last-minute gift for a gin lover.
Top 5 gins perfect Christmas 2025
Cherry Gin (That Boutique-y Gin Company)
And now for something completely different. This was produced by That Boutique-y Gin Company, who created this Cherry Gin in the finest sloe gin tradition, with both sweet and sour Marasca cherries. Works well with everything, including cola!
How does it taste?
Incredibly Christmassy: seriously fruity with plum and orange. Lovely sipped neat on ice or with fresh raspberries in a seriously fancy G&T.
Bathtub Gin
Alongside all the exciting new products in our Top 5 gins perfect Christmas 2025 line-up, we’ve included a few old favourites like the mighty Bathtub Gin. It’s made with a very high-quality copper pot-still spirit infused with ingredients including juniper, orange peel, coriander, cassia, cloves and cardamom to produce a powerful gin with a creamy, viscous mouthfeel.
How does it taste?
The initial focus is juniper, but the earthier botanicals make themselves known in the initial palate, too, with the most gorgeously thick mouthfeel. Negroni time!
Fords Gin
Created by bartender Simon Ford in conjunction with Thames Distillers in London, to is the ultimate all-rounder gin. For the botanical selection, they use a varied selection from around the world, including grapefruit peel from Turkey, jasmine from China, angelica from Poland, lemon peel from Spain, as well as juniper from Italy.
What does it taste like?
Herbal rosemary and thyme meet floral heather and juniper, pink peppercorns, and grapefruit pith. Try it in a freezer door Martini.
Gin Mare
No, the name is not a reference to the bad dreams you have after a night on the sauce. It’s the Spanish word for sea, pronounced something like ‘mar re’, and it’s another Mediterranean stunner featuring rosemary, thyme, basil with lots of zest, and the star product, arbequina olive. This is the gin of Barcelona.
What does it taste like?
A fragrant, perfume-like gin majoring, very herbal and aromatic with notes of coriander, juniper and citrus zest.
Dingle Original Gin
It’s another ‘while we wait for the whiskey’ gin, but it’s no afterthought. Containing rowan berry, fuchsia, bog myrtle, hawthorn and heather, this gin from the Dingle Distillery in Kerry won World’s Best Gin at the 2019 World Gin Awards. And when you taste it, you’ll understand why.
What does it taste like?
Juicy and sweet with authentic summer berry notes, followed by fresh herbs (think mint leaf and fennel).
Hugh Nisbet