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10 best flavoured gins to add a twist to your G&T

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Traditional gin fans, look away now. As we’ve all gone ga-ga for gin, distilleries have responded by producing a huge range of new-fangled flavours to add some dazzle to our drinks cabinet.

Of course, even a classic gin is flavoured with juniper, often with a hint of other botanicals such as lemon or spices to give the drinks a fresh, balanced taste. Flavoured gins have another noticeable flavour added to the mix to make them distinctly different from the dry gin featured in the average G&T. This could be a berry, a spice or even – as we discovered – anything from marshmallows to chocolate biscuits. It’s possible to find almost any flavour that takes your fancy on every supermarket shelf.

Though these can be served with simple flavoured gins can also be served neat or are a great shortcut to Most of the flavoured gins we tested recommended an ideal way to serve on the bottle and we found it was well worth trying these to add a whole new drink to our repertoire. It’s worth noting that we asked some self-professed gin haters to try these tipples too and all vastly

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