At once fascinating, fun and scholarly, ‘Gin’ distills appreciation for an enduring quaff Shonna Milliken Humphrey has written a memoir, a novel and now an ode to gin. By Thomas Urquhart Share Some years ago, I discovered Greenall’s gin – on special at Heathrow’s Duty Free shop. It was love at first sip. From then on, a bottle was a prize from every trip abroad. Until last January. At the airport, Greenall’s was everywhere I looked: wild berry gin, blueberry gin, blood orange and fig gin. But of the “classic London Dry Gin handcrafted by England’s oldest gin distillery since 1761” – simple unadulterated Greenall’s – not a drop. Surely, today’s gin craze has gone too far.