Our selection of the twelve best French gins

Star of the 1980s, when it was consumed as a “gin to”, gin experienced a long period of disgrace with mixologists and consumers, before making a comeback in the 2010s. Since then, it has crossed the line. Channel and hardly a week goes by without a new version being released.

Some very much in line with the traditional recipe and with the marked taste of juniper berries, the main ingredient, others much less thanks to sometimes exotic flavors, sometimes even questionable.

Here is our selection of the twelve best French gins.

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Drouin, Le Gin

Renowned for his calvados, Christian Drouin offers a gin made from the distillation of 30 varieties of apples and 8 herbs.

We find the scent of cider apples, with notes of citrus fruits, aromatic herbs.

The palate is frank, complete and powerful.

€ 37, 70 cl (whiskey.fr).

Christian Drouin

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Citadel

Produced by the cognac house Ferrand, this No Mistake Old Tom gin is inspired by a recipe from

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