5 English Gins for Lovers this Valentine's Day 2026
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, here are 5 top gins that are 100% worth sharing with your beloved! They combine great juniper-forward flavours with a stand out bottle for maximum visual impact. A feast for the eyes and the tongue!
Ealing Gin
Ealing Gin is inspired by the fragrant parks and gardens of south-west London with enticing aromas of botanicals like pink peppercorn, chamomile, garden mint, rose and rosemary.
Its Art Deco packaging is a celebration of the borough's iconic architecture. A sophisticated gin with a wonderful connection to its birthplace.
Lakes Classic Gin
The Lakes Classic Gin is made with botanicals including juniper, black pepper, orange peel, orris root, cassia bark and liquorice. Each sip yields a peppery, citrus burst that benefits from a garnish of orange peel or a slice of pink grapefruit.
Bottled at 46% alc. this gin is an exceptionally smooth London dry style in a stunning glass engraved bottle.
Dr. Squid Gin
This avant-garde Gin combines natural colour changing squid ink (it pours black and when mixed with tonic turns a vivid pink).
Add to that a funky copper flask engraved with the scenery, wildlife, folklore and history that surrounds the distillery and you have a great present for the adventurer, the mould-breaker and the creative free spirit!
Forest Gin
Forest Gin comes in a snazzy porcelain bottle with the distillery's cute paper-cut style design, which won a Gold Design Award for its cool looks.
But the contents are pretty special too winning Double Gold at the San Francisco World Spirits Awards, as well as being selected as one of the World’s Fifty Best Gins!
Smidgin
Smidgin Dry Gin is a great way to get a full flavoured G&T but with just a smidge of
alcohol! This dinky 20cl bottle contains an 6 ingredient, 10x intensified botanical blend, so a little goes a long way. Just half a teaspoon helps you get the perfect smidge each time: add to 200ml of tonic (voila! a G&T with an approximate strength of 0.6% alc.)
Want to see more top English Gins from smaller craft distilleries? Take a look at our Award-Winning English Gins or English Gin Bestsellers.
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