Classic G&T

Cinchona bark is the reason tonic tastes like tonic, and Naked Life uses it here alongside lemon and bitter orange, with juniper berry as the top note doing the gin part. That combination gets you the familiar shape of a gin and tonic, subtly bitter and crisp, without either the gin or the sugar. Six calories a can. Serve it in a glass packed with as much ice as it will hold, finished with a half moon of blood orange. Under icing a G and T is the most common way to ruin one, since warm tonic goes flat and flabby within minutes. The botanicals are distilled rather than added as flavouring, steamed until the aromatic vapours condense, which is why it keeps a dry finish. Naked Life is Australian owned and cans at 250ml using mostly Australian ingredients.