The name Pomp & Whimsy sounds like it was designed to toast the platinum anniversary. But this new gin is made in Los Angeles and is the work of Nicola Nice, a former New York-based sociologist who co-founded the Women’s Cocktail Collective to empower women in the beverage industry. The company’s first product was a gin-based liqueur, a slightly sweet and citrusy liqueur. Now there’s a bolder big sister: an 80-proof gin, also with hints of citrus, but subtly blended with more austere herb and spice components that testify to gin. It is delicious on its own with a twist and mixed with tonic, a gin for the summer. For a martini, I simply rinse the glass with a dash of dry vermouth.
Pomp & Whimsy Gin, $37.99, pompandwhimsy.com.
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