Meet Cygnet, a High-End Gin Making Its U.S. Debut This Fall

For a recent school project about her family, Katherine Jenkins and Andrew Levitas’s daughter didn’t mention that her mother is an opera singer who has performed for Queen Elizabeth II, or that her father is a filmmaker who has worked with Amy Adams and Ralph Fiennes. Instead, she said that her parents make and tonics. “I had to write a little note to the teacher: ‘We also created a luxury gin brand, so that’s what she’s referring to,’ ” Jenkins says.

The husband-and-wife team are behind , a high-end gin that launched in the United Kingdom in late 2023 and lands in the United States this fall. The brand will expand on this side of the Atlantic with three expressions: Cygnet Welsh Dry ($45), Cygnet 22 ($66), and Cygnet 77 ($150). The bottles will initially be available in New York, Miami,