The Gatsby Journal

Dispatches from the House of Gatsby



Awards & Press

The First American Release: 499 Bottles, and a Feature in Bottle & Barrel


Bottles of Gatsby Gin passed across a crowded table.
Bottles of Gatsby Gin passed across a crowded table.

Gatsby Gin was the featured spirit in Bottle & Barrel on August 26. Our thanks to the team at LiquidRails, who publish it. They also handle our US commerce and shipping.

It's not a gin. It's a Gatsby.

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The Bottle and the Gin

The House of Gatsby began in Europe. The bottle is Art Deco geometry in heavy glass, ribbed like a skyscraper, built to look as though it had been standing on a good bar since 1925. It is the kind of object people pick up before they have decided to buy anything, and that is the chapter the design awards belong to.

The Gatsby Gin bottle photographed straight on, showing the stepped Art Deco shoulders and fluted glass
Stepped shoulders, fluted glass, heavier than it needs to be.

The gin is the American chapter. It is distilled and bottled in Fort Myers, Florida, and it was entered at ADI as an American gin and judged on those terms, against the field, with no allowance made for being new.

Bright citrus over classic juniper depth. Warm spice underneath. Enough spine to survive a Negroni instead of vanishing into it.

Art Deco Spirit. American Soul. Made in USA.


The Record

Five credentials, from three independent juries. Three of them were decided in the glass.

The Gin Masters 2026 placed Gatsby in the Ultra-Premium category and gave it Silver, tasted blind alongside the imported names that usually own that shelf. The 2026 ADI International Spirits Competition gave it Silver in Classic Gin, the category with nowhere to hide: no flavor infusions, no novelty, just juniper and what sits behind it. ADI's Perfect Pour judges shortlisted it for America's Best Negroni.

The bottle has a record of its own. Double Gold for Excellence in Packaging at ADI, and an iF Gold Award in 2025, a tier iF keeps for roughly the top one percent of what it sees.


499 Bottles

That is the online allocation from the first American production run, at houseofgatsby.com. $44.99 a bottle. Ships to most US states.

A close cluster of Gatsby Gin bottles, showing the fluted glass and the faceted stopper
The first American production run, in emerald glass.

Thank you, Bottle & Barrel, for the introduction.

You must be 21 or older to purchase. Please enjoy responsibly.