Boodles

Gin
Purchase Price: $15
Place of Purchase: Chalet Premier Wines - North Lima, OH
Rating: 8.3

Boodles is as every bit as quirkily British as its name, like a Bristol Blenheim motoring up the A417 packed with a group of Morris Dancers on their way to the Cooper’s Hill Cheese Rolling “celebration” of broken legs and irreversible head injuries. Actually, it’s a bit more elegant than that, and in fact one of my favorite gins. It embraces tonic like a long lost brother in arms and makes a Martini that’s as snappy and stiff as the brim on a bowler. What more can you ask of gin than that?