There’s a gin renaissance all right, but is it a tonic?

I’VE ALWAYS liked that old phrase, when life deals you lemons, make yourself a gin and tonic. It’s funnier and cheekier than the more insipid version, which advises you to make lemonade.

Refreshing and all as homemade lemonade can be, it just doesn’t have the same ability to take the edge off when things get a little rough.

Or so the logic goes. Personally, I’d prefer to drink after-shave than anything made from the juniper berry but you can’t have failed to notice that there’s never been a better time to drink gin. We are, it appears, in the midst of a gin renaissance.