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Gordon's is a brand of London dry gin first produced in 1769. The top markets for Gordon's are the United Kingdom, the United States and Greece. [1] It is owned by the British spirits company Diageo. It is the world's best-selling London dry gin. [2] Gordon's has been the UK's number one gin since the late 19th century. [3]
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The negative reputation of gin survives in the English language in terms like gin mills or the American phrase gin joints to describe disreputable bars, or gin-soaked to refer to drunks. The epithet mother's ruin is a common British name for gin, the origin of which is debated. [17]
Charles Gordon (25 December 1814 – 27 July 1899) was an English first-class cricketer and gin distiller. A member of the Gordon family, he ran Gordon's Gin from the 1850s. The grandson of the Alexander Gordon, the founder of Gordon's Gin , he was born at Finsbury in December 1814. [ 1 ]
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