Fever-Tree goes floral

Gin has always attracted the lion’s share of the attention when it comes to making a G&T. Time to put its ‘straight man’ partner to the test, says Dan Priseman, as he lines up a range of tonics, calls in some top barmen and makes with the bottle-opener...

We previewed it early last year after a tip-off from the US, and now Q Tonic is finally getting its official UK launch. Its key selling point is its all-natural ingredients which include quinine from chinchona bark that’s hand-picked in the Peruvian Andes, and a sweetness that solely comes from organic agave nectar…

What makes Tony Conigliaro’s cocktails tick? Alice Lascelles took a group of inquisitive bartenders, armed with ideas, to his new cocktail lab to find out...