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I went back through the whole archive of text to see if I had written anything about Nordés, which is perfect, and it turns out I had written precisely one sentence almost a year ago. We will be fixing that.

I’ve had a lot of great gin cocktails in my life, but I still think that the best way to drink gin is either with tonic, or neat on a couple of cubes of ice. There is a whole dimension of gins that are perfect for such an activity, from barrel-aged sipping gins to gins that are simply extremely flavor-forward.

You can do this with your mixing gin, but that’s boring. One must procure a whole different gin for this purpose. That’s because your gin must have an opinion about what it is, which is a terrible thing for a mixing gin to do and an excellent thing for a sipping gin to do. The only thing the two categories have in common, really, is that you call them both “gin.”

Just as you don’t make a cocktail out of a 25-year-old whiskey (or I pray you don’t), you don’t usually make cocktails out of sipping gins, even though they cost a lot less and are a lot easier to find. You just… drink them. And a lot of people find this hard to process, because they expect their cocktails to contain several ingredients and require a lot of effort to make.