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Article: Is gin back in? With an array of super-premium brands, each boasting its own exotic-sounding botanicals and history, gin may be the next "in" spirit.
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- Cheers
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- March 1, 2003
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Who says gin isn't versatile?
When managers of Tru, in Chicago, decided to create a cocktail that was the exact same color as a sculpture on display in its bar, the restaurant, surprisingly, did not turn to vodka, the "blank canvas" of spirits.
No, the spirit used in the restaurant's Tru Blu Martini is a gin: Bombay Sapphire.
Of course, gin being, like vodka, a white spirit, getting the color right wasn't the issue. (Incidentally, the Tru Blu Martini is a precise shade of blue called International Klein Blue, named after the artist who created Tru's sculpture, Yves Klein.)
What is surprising is that Tru's bartenders - already ...