8 common supermarket tonic waters, blind-tasted and ranked: Is it really worthwhile paying for the expensive stuff? ginandtonic cocktails gin
to solve this sort of debate: Blind tasting. And so, I gathered together a handful of the most common and widely available tonic waters to taste them blind against each other, to see how they really taste when you remove branding and marketing from the equation. I included classics of the genre, alongside a few more expensive brands, and a few budget-priced supermarket house brand just to see if one might improbably rise to the top.
It really is an achievement to create a tonic water with this mild and nondescript a nose—when you raise this glass and smell it, there’s almost nothing there. On the palate, it’s again sweet in an amorphous way, very mild and with the faintest traces of bitterness.
Q’s tonic has a slight gingery tone on the nose, but overall the aroma is pretty subdued and slightly musty. On the palate it’s more pronounced in its quinine flavor and bitterness than most of the others, while also being more dry. This would be a solid choice if you’re specifically looking for a more dry tonic that is also mild in flavor, but I found some others in this blind tasting that delivered a dry tonic profile in a more exciting way.
The nose on this one is lime forward, with hints of sweet stem ginger. On the palate it’s sweet and soda-like, somewhat similar to Schweppes, but it has more supporting bitterness to help round things out. Overall, this was actually one of the most assertively flavored tonics of the tasting, with bold sweetness and bitterness alike. I would imagine this is pretty close to the center of the bullseye in terms of what most consumers are probably expecting to be served when they ask for tonic.
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