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What is a sipping gin?

Updated: Dec 7, 2023

Gin is very often served with a tonic or flavour mixer and is rarely thought to be drunk straight unlike whiskey, rum, or tequila. Sipping gins are distilled to be enjoyed neat.

Sipping gins are distilled to be enjoyed neat.
Sipping gins are distilled to be enjoyed neat.

A pure juniper-forward taste profile is regarded as a harsh and pungent mix of fresh woody pine and not the most pleasant experience without accompaniment.



A sipping gin is an exception and is already balanced with a mix of botanicals to reduce the impact of the juniper and be sipped without the need for a tonic or a mixer. Though that is a choice and they can still be pleasantly mixed with the addition of a tonic.

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