BOTANICAL MAGIC
Every year, the Oxford English Dictionary recognises new words. Those from 2019 included cannabusiness (weed-related commerce), spritzy (fizzy) and any number of new dog breed crosses. Surprisingly, though, it hasn’t yet included ‘ginaissance’ – a term that has sprung up to indicate the transformation in the fortunes of the G in G&T.
Gin is everywhere: on A-boards outside pubs and filling up supermarket aisles, dinner parties and drinks lists alike. New distilleries seem to open every week in the UK alone. For a drink that was deader than corduroy 30 years ago, these are heady times indeed.
Key to gin’s
