Old Tom Gin

Old Tom is a historic style of gin that sits between bone-dry London Dry and the malty, full-bodied Dutch genever it descends from — a juniper-forward spirit given a touch of added sugar so it tastes softer, rounder and gently sweet. Once the everyday gin of Victorian London and the defining base of the Tom Collins and the original Martinez, it nearly vanished in the twentieth century before the craft-cocktail revival brought it back.