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As Eric Felton says in How's Your Drink?, a good Martini gin is not necessarily a good Gin & Tonic gin. Go with a lighter gin with a healthy bouquet of juniper rather than the more robust, dry brands. There's a few that I really like, and each define an entirely new Gin & Tonic from the others: Beefeater, Bombay Sapphire, Martin Miller's London Dry and Tanqueray's 10 and Rangpur. With the tonic water, go as boutique as you can get. Even a bottle of Q Tonic Robert Hess talks of in Gin & Tonic (smallscreennetwork.com) will only set you back a few bucks, so you can afford to splurge.
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try tanquary and schwepps with lime rubbed around the rim of the glass lots of ice a wedge of lime and some bruised mint leaves
Second the lime rim. I usually wipe it once and save the rest of the lime for a squeeze part way through the drink, drop it in. Mint? I’ll be trying that. A dash of bitters is good too.
Thanks for the idea of rimming the edge of the glass. Usually I just squeeze in a lime wedge and let it go like that.
Also, I’ve found that a small quantity (to taste) of Rose’s Lime Juice adds an interesting, but not cloying taste to the drink.
These are perfect for our dry, desert climate. In our G&T, we add a splash of dill pickle juice.