This tonic with its sharp overtones from the grapefruit offers a crispness to a dry gin or a contrast to a sweet floral or fruit gin. If you are a lover of grapefruit, you can appreciate this simply with ice and a slice of grapefruit or added to a premium Yorkshire dry gin. Developing the tonic waters took about six months,’ she says. ‘We had to get the right balance of flavours with the herbs and botanicals and decide what each base was going to be, such as strawberry or elderflower.’ Once that was in place, Medforth and the team could start adding water and carbon dioxide — and then get bottling. ‘We’ve made mistakes along the way, but we learned from them,’ she says. A versatile tonic that gives a hit of lime followed by lemon from the citrus extracts producing a perfect mixer for a premium Yorkshire gin or vodka. This is a refreshing tonic that leaves a slight tang on the tongue when served simply with ice and a slice. Today, Fever Tree offer a range of tonic waters; Premium, Light, Elderflower, Mediterranean, Cucumber and Clementine– just to name a few. As part of your subscription, you'll also receive a recipe card each time, as well as an invitation to virtual tastings every quarter.

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York Gin Cocoa is distilled using cocoa beans from York Cocoa Works to give it a unique and intensely satisfying flavour along with the unmistakable aroma of chocolate. A wonderfully fitting tribute to York’s history of chocolate production. This is a tonic that pleases the palate of a dry gin drinker when paired with Raisthorpe Manor’s Oak Aged Dry Gin or Distilled Gin and adds a sharp but fruity twist to Raisthorpe Manor’s Elderflower Gin Liqueur. The Pink Particular Gin is wonderfully aromatic with flavours of cardamon, lemon citrus and pink peppercorns. It should be served neat or with just a dash of tonic. The best companion to any fruity and floral premium gin. The crispness of the apple is complemented by the smoothness of the Elderflower giving a tonic that is perfectly balanced and perfectly acceptable as a drink in its own right over ice.

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An award-winning tonic producer have added to their list of accolades with a win at the Quality Food Awards. The Little Red Berry Company are a multi-award winning company based near Ripon. They have been producing alcoholic liqueurs and flavoured gins since 2011 when they took their first Yorkshire gins to Otley Show for locals to sample. With the best gin subscriptions you get to travel the globe, sampling craft gin from countries across the world, so you’re bound to find your next favourite drink there. As the name suggests, we have created a premium tonic and a skinny premium tonic containing natural extracts of Quassia and Sicilian lemon to satisfy any premium gin drinker. These are versatile mixers that can be paired with any premium Yorkshire gin or vodka or served simply with ice and a slice.

They describe the spirit as being a blend of traditional botanicals “with more delicate infusions of Elderflower, Dandelion and Pink Grapefruit.

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Yorkshire Tonics are produced by Raisthorpe Manor Fine Foods, a family business that started producing Raspberry Gin based on a family recipe from the farmhouse kitchen.