Top 10 Gins
You want to drink gin. That is an excellent choice. Right here, you can explore properly made gin in all its sharp, aromatic, occasionally unhinged glory. These are the Top 10 Gins you should drink in 2026.
What Gin to Drink in 2026
It's a new year, so it's the perfect time to get yourself a new gin. Good thing the standards have never been higher. Yes, there's an awful lot of average to frankly, quite crap stuff out there. And all sorts of novelty nonsense too. But there are also more sublime, surprising, and diverse options for the gin drinker.
Distillers are focusing on provenance, sustainability, story, and originality, but also keeping flavour at the core of their innovations. Sourcing quality botanicals is essential, and the best examples meld masterfully into tonic water; they are not simply disguised by or drowned in it.
This page aims to bring you the best. Leave the sorry old bottles behind in 2025. It's time to start afresh, baby, with the kind of gin you gladly pour for friends, after you've quietly topped up your own glass first.
Here you’ll find producers who respect the classics, others happily bending the rules, and a healthy spread of styles. Some shine in a Martini, some love a long serve, none are here by accident. If you’re curious about gin beyond the obvious, start here. If you want flavour, balance, and a bit of backbone, stay awhile.
Scotch Gin
Isle of Harris Gin
70cl • 40% ABV
Isle of Harris Gin is made on the eponymous Outer Hebrides island, using a selection of nine botanicals, including sustainably harvested sugar kelp from local sea-lochs. This imparts a subtly coastal, maritime quality to the gin, which also features juniper, angelica, cassia, coriander, cubeb, liquorice root, orange peel, and orris root. The bottle is also a sight to behold, evoking the ripples of the sea.
"I love the Isle of Harris' gin and whiskies. Their transparency. Their genuine connection to community, training up local distillers, hand-harvesting the local kelp sustainably. Here you have glorious citrus, pepper, sweetness and (not overdone) maritime salty tang. And. Would. You. Just. Look. At. That. Bottle."
English Pink Gin
Proper Pink Gin
(That Boutique-y Gin Company)
50cl • 46%
Back in the day, pink gin used to be a tipple concocted using gin and Angostura Bitters. At some point, variations on pink gin started to pop up, many of them based around the addition of berries, imparting heavy sweetness as well as the eponymous pink hue.
"This is pink gin done properly. What it should be, and what it was, before it lost the plot. Just gin and Angostura. No fruit salad, no sugar rush, no nonsense.
Cask-Aged finnish gin
Kyrö Dark Gin
50cl • 42.6%
The folks from Kyrö in Finland have gone ahead and made their very own cask aged gin that is excellent for all sorts of tipple whatever the weather! Built upon a base of Finnish wholegrain rye and featuring 17 botanicals, this expression spends up to 12 months maturing in American oak barrels before being bottled.
"Rye-led, oak-kissed, mixes with far more than just tonic (top tip: ginger ale)... This ticks all the boxes. If you haven't tried cask-aged, this is the ideal introduction."
Celeb-Tastic Scotch Gin
The Sassenach Wild Scottish Gin
70cl • 42%
Outlander's Sam Heughan has managed to capture (and distil) the essence of Scotland's rugged landscapes with this addition to his Sassenach spirits range – Wild Scottish Gin! This London dry style gin is distilled with an array of foraged botanicals from the Dumfries and Galloway region of Scotland, where Heughan grew up.
Earthy, Spicy Kenyan Gin
Procera Blue Dot Gin
70cl • 44%
One of the most luxurious and outstanding gins on the planet! Procera Blue Dot is distilled in Nairobi, Kenya. The gin boasts a host of 11 botanicals sourced from across the continent, including Madagascan pink pepper, Moroccan orris root, and single vintage harvests of the rare Juniper Procera, a variety that only grows in the highlands of Kenya and Ethiopia.
Herbal, fresh Islay Gin
The Botanist Islay Dry Gin
70cl • 46%
The Botanist Islay Dry Gin is created at the Bruichladdich distillery. This superb Islay gin was distilled in the 'ugly betty' still described as "an oversized upside-down dustbin made of copper" by Tom Morton. It has perhaps the best looking packaging we've ever seen for a gin. It's not all style and no substance either. Botanist is a world-class gin set at a proper ABV.
Full-Flavoured English Gin
Whitley Neill Japanese Yuzu & White Strawberry Gin
70cl • 41.3%
This Whitley Neill gin boasts the zesty citrus flavour of Japanese yuzu fruit and the succulent sweetness of white strawberries. Ideal for adding twist to your favourite tonic, or try 50ml of this mixed with 25ml fresh lemon juice, 15ml simple syrup, soda, and ice, garnished with fresh mint and a strawberry slice for a delightful Gin Fizz.
CLassic English Sloe Gin
Hayman's Sloe Gin
70cl • 26%
A proper, old-school sloe gin from Hayman’s, made the way it should be. Whole sloes are slowly steeped in Hayman’s gin, drawing out deep, inky fruit character before a measured touch of natural sugar brings everything into balance. It's rich, bittersweet and satisfyingly intense. Brilliant neat, excellent with a splash of tonic, and dangerously easy to keep revisiting.
Smooth, Citrusy English Gin
Tanqueray No. Ten
70cl • 47.3%
Introduced in 2000, Tanqueray No. Ten is named after the still of its origin, pot still number 10, which is quite endearingly nicknamed Tiny Ten. The small batch gin is crafted using whole fresh citrus fruits, such as oranges, limes and grapefruit, along with chamomile flowers and other traditional botanicals. Expect a burst of citrus with every sip.
Lush, fruity Scotch Gin
Hendrick's Grand Cabaret Gin
70cl • 43.4%
Master distiller Lesley Gracie was inspired to create Hendrick's Grand Cabaret Gin after hearing the tale of a 17th-century fruity French experiment, where distilling mounds of stone fruit unexpectedly yielded a truly tasty concoction. It channels that spirit of curious excess, layering lush fruit character onto the brand’s unmistakably eccentric gin DNA.
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From Old Tom to Flavoured, and of course the classic London Dry, you'll find every style of gin you'll ever need right here. And some you didn't even think of too for good measure...
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