Gin Tonic琴通寧
Flavour
- Body
- CrispSparkling
- Colour
- Clear
- Style
- Long drink
Ingredients
- Gin30 ml
- Tonic Water90 ml
- Lemon Juice10 ml
Served
- Glass
- Highball glass
- Ice
- Ice cubes
- Garnish
- Lemon wedge
- Technique
- Build
Method
Fill a highball glass with ice, add the gin and lemon juice, top with chilled tonic water, stir once gently and add a lemon wedge.
About this drink
Quinine tonic was taken as a bitter medicine in the nineteenth-century tropics, and gin and sugar made it easier to swallow; the habit followed the British around their colonies. Tonic water today carries far less quinine, and what remains is simply a clean bitterness.