We tried over 40 canned cocktails and mocktails – here's what's worth your money
Most supermarkets now carry a wide range, though M&S has the most interesting, with options ranging from a sake spritz to a smoky pineapple daiquiri. For context, M&S has a quarter of the market share, which is enormous considering they have just four per cent of the overall grocery market. Clearly, its R&D team is having a lot of fun.
Beyond own-labels, one of the best-known high-quality brands is Moth, which prides itself on using named spirit brands in its drinks, a welcome step up from the generic alcohol used in some options.
Moth branding is recognisable: small (usually 125ml) cans with a textured black panel on the label. And it is much-imitated. But did the dupes come up to scratch? Read on to find out.
How I tasted
I tasted the cocktails in groups so all the versions of the same drink could be directly compared. Larger groups were tasted in ascending order of alcoholic strength, to be fair to the drinks with a lower abv, which were usually also the cheaper ones.
Drinks with a similar abv were tasted blind against each other, the better to assess the dupes. For each group I then went back and retested to cross-compare products. Final notes were written sighted to allow inclusion of information about ingredients and packaging.
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Margaritas
Spicy Margaritas
Piña Colada
Strawberry Daiquiris
Passion Fruit Martinis
Paloma
Bloody Mary
Flavoured Daiquiri
Negroni
Mojito
Low and no
Others
Margaritas
The classic margarita is a short, sharp drink made by shaking tequila, triple sec and lime juice with ice and straining into a salt-rimmed glass. Some of the cans tested were, strictly speaking, Tommy's Margarita, where the triple sec is replaced with agave nectar.
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