Tanqueray No. Ten

Charles Tanqueray broke with three generations of clergymen in his family to open a gin distillery in London's Bloomsbury in 1830, eventually settling on just four core botanicals — juniper, coriander, angelica root, and liquorice — a recipe that's remained essentially unchanged for nearly two centuries.

No. Ten, launched in 2000, took that legacy somewhere new: the first gin to use whole fresh citrus, hand-cut just eight miles from the distillery and distilled in small batches using a tiny copper pot still nicknamed "Tiny Ten." The result is bright and vibrant — grapefruit, orange, and lime over the classic Tanqueray botanical backbone — built specifically for the Martini market.

The bartender's choice for a proper Dry Martini, or a beautifully clean Gin and Tonic.