Our resident gin expert hasn't tried this one yet, but here's what Jeffrey's have to say:

So much effort has been put into gin botanicals, Jeffrey's wanted to simplify your tonic - in a good way!

We 'simply' use Cinchona bark and organic Sicilian lemon juice with our special process to make a very smooth, balanced and refreshing drink all by itself.

Cinchona bark Our Cinchona bark comes from Equador, which is next door to where it all started, in Peru. The Cinchona is a flowering tree, native to the Andean forests of western South America. Most other tonics use quinine extract, which is why the tonics are clear ‘white’. We use the bark straight from the tree, which is why our tonics have a distinctive amber colour. Many people also use powdered bark, which is cheaper, because you can get more quinine out of the bark, but we use only the chipped bark, to give a lovely, complex flavour which works so well and so smoothly.

'Not so plain' tonic of course has the quinine edge you like, but it also does not have the overbearing bitterness of 'normal' tonics, which means that complex gins open up beautifully and they are not closed down in flavour.