Plymouth

Gin
Purchase Price: $14
Place of Purchase: Warehouse - New York, NY
Rating: 8.4

Plymouth is one of the world’s best gins, period. I would even go so far to say that it is my second favorite gin, just a nose behind Tanqueray Ten. Plymouth is crisp; it’s no-frills; it takes to tonic or vermouth like Yukon Cornelius does to snow. They have changed bottles recently and the price has gone up but it’s still worth every farthing. I have included the old bottle here for nostalgia’s sake. Plymouth is one of England’s oldest brands--just a bit younger than the USA itself and the spirit itself was originally distilled by Monks on the same site for many years before that. The Pilgrims of yore departed for the New World from Plymouth on a ship you may have heard of--The Mayflower, which, as you can see, had a prominent place on the label until only very recently. So sip a bit of history, won’t you?