近年来世界各地的琴酒风潮开始转而复苏，作者将藉由琴酒的发展历史与过程，来反映出其曾扮演过的正反派角色。本书除了涵盖丰富有趣的历史插图外，也介绍以琴酒种类和以其为基底的酒谱，这是一本非常适合琴酒爱好者享用的好书。
 
书评
"The Gin volume seems particularly well-timed the spirit is enjoying a US renaissance. Author Lesley Jacobs Solmonson brings us through gins history at a blistering pace that manages to satisfy with plenty of drama and botanicals. Somerset Maugham, Dorothy Parker, The Dutch East India Company, and Robert Benchley (I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.) all get their due."
Boston Globe
 
"The author of this effervescent little history traces modern gins origins (as the Dutch drink genever) and its subsequent use for medicinal purposes and in the military (Dutch courage), and its demonisation during the London gin panic. Never again, the author writes wistfully, would the city of London be as consistently intoxicated as it was between 1720 and 1751."
The Guardian

"Solmonson traces the spirits appearance in written English to an 18th-century tract that called it a fiery Lake that sets the Brain in Flame, burns up the Entrails, and scorches every Part within. Sounds about right."
New York Times Style magazine
 
 
关於作者
Lesley Jacobs Solmonson是自由作家，专门写关於美食和酒精饮品的文章，并常刊登在《Wine Enthusiast》丶《Gourmet》丶《Dining Out》和《C magazine》等等杂志上。她还创办12bottlebar鸡尾酒资讯相关网站。