3 August 2026

This page will list over 270 original articles on the website.

Note, I also publish on Instagram to keep things lively, so please make sure you follow me there as well. I also have a YouTube channel -so please check that out with over 130 interviews, tips, distillery visits and more.

I’ve grouped the articles into several categories, plus at the bottom are some older articles that I really must make time to get around to update sometime.

As always, I welcome your thoughts, feedback, questions or suggestions for future articles, and if you are interested in becoming a contributor too, or are a distiller and have a release you’d like reviewed, please contact me via the form below.

Popular Resources 

• Australian Rum Makers List   Updated 3 August 2026
• Australian Vodka Makers List   Updated 3 August 2026
• Australian Single Malt, Rye + Blended Whisky Makers List  Updated 3 August 2026
• Australian Gin Makers List   Updated 3 August 2026
• Australian Vermouth Makers List  Updated 20 June 2026
• Australian Brandy Makers List  Updated 14 December 2025
• About Tonic Water,+ Reviews (plus what’s available in Australia)  Updated 20 June 2026
• Canberra Region Distilleries Updated 23 May 2025
• Events and other Services   Updated 20 June 2026
• Japanese Gins Updated 13 November 2021 
• Martini Whisperer YouTube Channel 
• Media Appearances, podcasts + interviews Updated 20 June 2026
• Melbourne and nearby distillery list  Updated 3 August 2026
• New Zealand Gins list Updated 10 May 2026
• Victorian Regional Distillery List Updated 3 August 2026

Updates

• Podcast and Masters of Distilling Series Update
• May 2026 Update 
• January 2026 Update and introducing Kabina Distilling Co
• November 2025 Update
• April 2025 Update 
• May 2025 Update 
• July 2025 Update
• Spring Update 2025
• November 2025 Update
• Martini Whisperer Martini Gift sets for sale online
• Virtual Martini Masterclasses
• Introducing the Masters of Distilling Promotional Reel – October 2025
• GoFundme Appeal for Masters of Distilling 
• Introducing selected YouTube chats with distillers

Various

• 10 Gins for the Commercial Bar
• 10 Australian Spirits to Know 
• Australian Gin Book 
• Buying Australian Spirits Online  
• Canberra Region Distilleries updated 23 May 2025
• Hollywood Nights 2024
• Lawrenny Estate Live September 2021
• Martini Appreciation Soirees + Masterclass events
• Martini: A Memoir
• Podcast Interview 2021 with Ashley Feraude
• Series Update: Exciting Times Ahead!  November 2024
• The 10 Must-have Gins for home
• There and back again, Palm Springs 2024
• The Centenary Martini
• Vive Le French Gin
• Cocktail Recipes and Events
• 2019 Original Cocktail Recipes: Part 1
• 2019 Orignal Cocktail Recipes: Part 2 – Spritzers
• Canberra Gin Dinner Recipes December 2021
• Canberra Centre VIP Opening Masterclass July 2017
• Event: French Gin Degustation Dinner, November 2017
• Event: November 16 2017 Canberra Design Festival
• Fall Spritz at the Canberra Centre
• Floriade Presentations 2014
• Good Food Month Degustation Dinner in Canberra 2014
• How it all started for me and 3 cocktail recipes (video)
• Mulled Wine and Winter Warmers
• Negroni Week 2019 Recipes
• Negroni Week 2024
• Recipe: French Gin Degustation Dinner
• Recipe: La Martini Deluxe
• Recipe: The Bardot
• The Cold Light Martini & Play
• World Record Gin Tasting event Canberra 2020
• It’s a Wrap: World Martini Day Dinner 2016

Reviews

• 5 Melbourne Cocktail Bars (reviews)
• 24 Australian Craft Gins tasting notes – 2019
• 24 Australian Craft Gins tasting notes – 2018
• 24 Australian Craft Gins tasting notes – 2017
• 36S Single Malt Whisky 
• 36S Rakia
• 36S Blood Orange Gin 
• 495 Russian Vodka
• Applewood Distillery Gin
• Antipodes Gin
• Archie Rose Signature Dry Gin
• Aussie Tipple Company Range 
• Bareksten Navy Strength Gin Special Guest Contributor – Jens
• Beachtree Distilling Co. Gins 
• Blood Moon Tonic
• Blue Bottle Gin
• Berlin Brandstifter Gin
• Bass + Flinders Gin
• Botanic Australis Gin
• Brooklyn Gin Special Guest Contributor – Jens
• Brunswick Aces – non Alcoholic spirits
• Black Market Cocktail Bar Special Guest Contributor – M
• Blind Tiger Organic Gin
• Casa Noble Tequila – Blanco (Part 1) Special Guest Contributor – Chris
• Casa Noble Tequila – Part 2 Special Guest Contributor – Chris
• Canberra Distillery, Original Release
• Catcher & Co Bathtub Gin
• Causes and Cures Semi-Dry Vermouth 2017
• Causes and Cures Vermouths
• Cure Tonic Syrups
• Dasher and Fisher Gins 
• Diamond Glacier 33 Vodka
• Everleigh Premixed Cocktails
• Ferdinand Saar Dry Gin 
• Fleurieu Distillery – River’s End Whisky  Special Guest Contributor – Chris
• Fire Drum Vodka
• Forty Spotted Gin
• Forty Spotted Gin Summer Release 
• Four Pillars Dry Gin
• Garden Tiger Gin
• Gin Loot Subscription Pack
• Grasslands Gin
• G Gin special guest contributor -Jens
• Harahon Norwegian Small Batch Gin  special guest contributor -Jens
• Hernö Pink BTL Gin special guest contributor -Jens
• Headland’s Distillery’s Gins and Illawarra Plum releases
• Heavy Water Oz Vodka
• Hillmartin Gin Distillery Gins 
• Hobart No.4 Gin
• Imbue Distillery Gin Range
• Japanese Gin
• Jensen’s Bermondsey London dry gin
• Kangaroo Island Vodka
• Kalki Moon Dry Australian Premium Gin
• Karu Distillery Morita Chipotle Vodka 
• Kyoto Distillery Kinobi Kyoto Dry Gin – part 1  Special Guest Contributor – Simon
• Kyoto Distillery Kinobi Kyoto Sei Navy Strength Gin – part 2 Special Guest Contributor – Simon
• Loch Distillery Gin Liqueur
• Loch Gin
• Lord Howe Island Distilling Co Gins
• Lucky’s Bar at QT Canberra
• Melbourne Gin Company
• Moore’s Vintage Dry Gin
• Molly Speakeasy Bar Canberra 
• McHenry Classic Dry Gin
• McHenry Federation Gin
• Maidenii Dry Vermouth
• Mr Black coffee liqueur
• NB Gin 
• NB Vodka
• Nonesuch Distillery Sloe Gin
• Nonesuch Distillery Dry Gin
• Norrbottens Distilleri Mountain Dry Gin  Special Guest Contributor Jens
• Occitan London Dry Gin
• Orange Bitters
• Original Spirit Company Dry Gin 
• Pink Moon Saloon Special Guest Contributor – Scarlet Decoy
• Prohibition Bathtub Cut Gin
• QT Lucky’s Bar Hotel Canberra 2014
• Sakurao Gin Original Special Guest Contributor – Simon
• Sandy Gray Gin 
• Santa Fe Spirits Wheeler’s Gin
• Seacliff Vodka 
• Settler’s Artisan Rare Dry Gin
• St. George Spirits 
• Stone Pine Gin
• Stockholms Bränneri Dry Gin Special Guest Contributor -Jens
• Stockholms Bränneri Dry Gin – Navy Strength Special Guest Contributor -Jens
• Stockholms Bränneri Oak Gin Special Guest Contributor -Jens
• StrangeLove Tonic Waters
• Summerleas Distillery Strength Gin 
• Tanlines Distillery Spirits 
• Tasmanian Tonic Water Company
• Tempus Two Gins
• The Everleigh Pre-Mixed Cocktail range
• The Botanist Gin Special Guest Contributor -Jens 
• The Barbershop, Sydney Special Guest Contributor  – Scarlet Decoy
• The Canberra Distillery Gin
• The Lawrenny Range
• The Retiring Gin
• The West Winds Cutlass Gin
• The West Winds Gin- Maidenii Voyage Release
• Threefold Gin
• Tonic Waters available in Australia(and a quick history)
• Truffle Mad Gin 
• Underground Spirits Gin and Vodka 
• Unexpected Guest Distillery Gins  
• Vive La French Gin 
• Vestal Vodka
• Vicar’s Son Gin Range 
• Wheeler’s Western Dry Gin
• Windspiel Premium Dry Gin Special Guest Contributor -Jens
• Winter Warmers and Mulled Wine 
• Wildbrumby Stallion Navy Strength Gin 
• Young Henrys Noble Cut Gin
• X-Gin

Insights

• It’s a wrap for 2022! and top five Martinis of the year
• A Tale of Seven American Martinis
• Australian Gins: the State of Play 2020
• Craft Stillmakers in Australia
• Cocktail and Distillery Tour of Japan in September 2019
• Cocktail Shakers + Mixers 101
• Cameo on Real Housewives of Melbourne
• Dry Vermouth
• Dry July and other adventures! July 2018
• Ecosystem in Adelaide for craft spirits and cocktail bars 
• February 2024 Update
• Hospopreneur Podcast Episodes  – February 018 – guest contributor -James
• Hospopreneur Podcast Episodes  – March 2018 – guest contributor -James
• Hospopreneur Podcast Episodes – May 2018 – guest contributor -James
• Hospopreneur Podcast Episodes– June 2018 – guest contributor -James
• Hospopreneur Podcast Episodes – July 2018 – guest contributor- James
• Hospopreneur Podcast Episodes – August 2018 – guest contributor- James
• How to Drink
• Hollywood Nights
• Ice, Ice, Baby
• Introducing Masters of Distilling Promotional Reel
• Is Winter the perfect season for a Martini? 
• James Bond and his Martinis
• Japanese Gin List
• Judging the Perth Royal Distilled Spirits Awards 2019
• Judging Royal Melbourne Show International Spirits Awards 2026
• Juniper for the Gin  special guest contributor – Gavin from Archie Rose Distillery 
• Influencers and the Australian Distilling Industry Part 1
• Interview: ABC Radio Canberra 2018
• Martini Garnishes
• Martini Masterclass Captured Graphically!
• Martini Diplomacy: Berlin
• Martini Diplomacy: Oman
• Melbourne Royal Show International Spirits Awards 2026 Results
• Musing on the Martini 
• New Zealand Craft Spirits Awards 2019 
• My Top Five Martini Experiences for 2018
• My Top Five Martini Experiences for 2019
• My Top Five Martini Experiences for 2020
• My Top Five Martini Experiences for 2024 
• Orange Bitters
• Six Martini Pitfalls
• There and Back again: Palm Springs Adventures 2024
• The Six Types of Martini (and no, they’re not what you think they are)
• The Dry Martini
• The Espresso Martini
• The Dirty Martini
• TEDx Canberra preview
• TEDx Canberra- The Martini Presentation update
• TEDx talk: The cultural history of the Martini
• Thoughts on Melbourne Service
• Tokyo Gin Festival 2019 Special Guest Contributor – Simon
• 2019 Tokyo World Gin Day Festival Part 1 of 2 Special Guest Contributor – Simon
• The 101 on Rum and the next big trend
• The Four Facets of a Great Martini
• US Modernist Radio Live and YouTube news – 31 March 2020
• US Modernist Interview in Palm Springs 2024
• US Modernist 2nd Interview August 2024 
• Visiting Joadja Distillery 
• What’s in a Glass?
• What to look for in Whisky Trends
• Vodka Martinis
• Why Gin Martinis?
• World Martini Day Competition
• World Gin Day 2015
• World Gin Day 2016 Dinner
• World Gin Day Dinner 2017
• World Martini Day Essay 2016
• World Martini Day 2020
• World Gin Day 2021 with Antipodes Gin
• World Gin Day 2022
• World Gin Day 2024

Old Stuff 

• 2019 Australian Gin Advent Calendar
• 2018 Australian Gin Advent Calendar
• 2017 Australian Gin Advent CalendarAustralian Drinks Festival July 2016
• 2018- A year of highlights!
• 2017 and all that Jazz
• Australian Distillers making hand sanitiser 
• Canberra Martini Survey 2016
• Canberra Cocktail Bar List  updated 5 January 2020
• Cocktail and Distillery Tour of Japan in September 2019
• Exclusive Martini Whisperer Face masks
• Giveaway Competition: Three Fold Gin (January 2020)
• Cocktail and Distillery Tour of Japan in September 2019
• Exclusive Martini Whisperer Face masks
• Floriade Presentations 2014
• Good Food Month Degustation Dinner in Canberra 2014
• Giveaway Competition: Three Fold Gin (January 2020)
• Top 5 Melbourne Martinis 2012
• Top Shelf Boutique Drinks Show Melbourne 2014
• Top 10 Melbourne Cocktail Bars list Part 1
• Top 10 Melbourne Cocktail Bars list Part 2