Plymouth Dry Gin

Pros: Smooth, lighter on botanicals, nifty back story
Cons: Strangely unhappy with a lime, lighter on botanicals.

I admit to have been taken by the advertising which not only boasted of a 200+ year-old heritage, but that it was routinely beating the gins in the "blue and green bottles" in taste-tests. I knew deep-down this was all so much bluster, but I also ...

Pros: Spot on
Cons: Don't be bloody silly

I may as well say at once I am not the prototypical gin-drinker. But then, Blackfriars' Plymouth is not your average gin.

As Fr Messick unaccountably neglected to mention in his elegant homily on the virtues of Bombay, it is Plymouth that is...

Pros: Distinctive Flavor
Cons: Can be hard to find

In John MacDonald's cult classic Travis McGee series, Travis drinks a lot of gin. In every book.
His drink is the McGee. A McGee is a glass of ice, into which a shot of sherry is poured, and swished about. Then the sherry is dumped into the sink,...

Pros: Clean, crisp taste
Cons: None

Plymouth has become by go to gin. I like the reduced emphasis on juniper and the nice clean taste. It is great on the rocks or in a gin and tonic. Highly recommended.

Pros: Clean, pure and friendly. Not cheap run of the mill gin.
Cons: Not inexpensive

Not just a true Gin, but the real true original Gin of England. Taste and see that this is not the steel-ish taste of "London Dry" Gins. Plymouth has a full rounded flavour. The botanicals are not over powering like some Gin's treat me, but suttle and friendly.
I enjoy Plymouth over crushed ice with a squirt of lime. Tasty poison mateys.