title_body: Fashionable gins - are they what they claim to be?
upvoted_answer: Gin is very simply defined as
  
  
    a clear alcoholic spirit distilled from grain or malt and flavoured with juniper berries.
  
  
  So your differentiation between "made properly" and "just alcohol and flavor" is meaningless.
  
  Many of the finest gins are made by steeping juniper berries and other botanicals in the distilled spirit. Others are created by passing the newly formed vapour through a "botanicals basket" prior to condensation. Whichever way they are created, they are still gin.
  
  So all the ones in your picture are "proper" gins. Many of them are really nice (that Caorunn is good.)
  
  Myself - I'm a big fan of the Gilt Single Malt Gin, as well as my own gin - the Metaltech (which is only for sale at our gigs.)