Tonic #7
210 x 270 mm, 156 pages
London, UK
Biannual
First published in 2020
Editor: Juliet Rix
Tonic explores themes of drink, travel and adventure through the 'history, customs and sheer pleasure of alcohol.’ This jazzy seventh issue has a particular emphasis on women makers and mixers, ‘which suggests as genuine shift (at least in Europe and America) in the gender landscape of wines and spirits.’
Plus: unlikely beers in Cincinnati, whiskey made from whey, rose petal liqueur, a distillery in Australia, and Iran's wine revival.
Now, what are you drinking?
On the Journal:
At work with Juliet Rix: ‘It is amazing the tales there are behind the booze in our bottles. Did you know that NASCAR—American stock car racing—grew directly out of the crazy cross-country driving of the prohibition liquor producers running moonshine in souped up cars to escape the ‘revenue men’? Or that the one thing US founding father Thomas Jefferson could not do—and really, really wanted to!—was make a decent bottle of wine?’
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