Gordon's Gin
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Gordon's is a popular brand of gin produced in the United Kingdom and under license in New Zealand and several other former British territories.
It was developed in London in 1769 by a Scot, Alexander Gordon, who had opened a distillery in Clerkenwell. The Special London Dry Gin he developed proved extremely successful, and its recipe remains unchanged to this day.
Gordon's Gin is unique in that it holds the Royal Patent for gin. The recipe for Gordon's is known to only 12 people in the world and has been kept a secret for 200 years.
Gordon's gin seems to be regarded as a rather low quality, cheap, brand in New Zealand and the USA. This may be due to the fact that in New Zealand whey, rather than grain is used in the distillation process. By contrast, in the UK, at least until the late 1990s, it was more or less the "standard" gin served in pubs, and the phrase "Gordon's and Tonic" was not uncommon. In the UK, Gordon's is sold in a distinctive green glass bottle, in New Zealand and the USA it is sold in a clear bottle which is sometimes made of plastic, depending on the size. Gordon's also produce a sloe gin and a ginger & lemon grass infused variety.
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