LAST UPDATED 4 July 2018

Here is the definitive list of Australian Gins with links to their makers which I update monthly, and my reviews which often include an interview with the distiller.

Note, many makers offer several versions of their gin.

Gins of various standards have been produced in Australia for quite some while, and one of the earliest references to a commercial gin production is from 1926 from the Federal Distilleries in Port Melbourne (established in 1888 producing mainly whisky) who produced a gin called Crystal Court.

Today we’re living in the golden age of Australian craft gins with inspired use of local botanical  giving them a distinctly Aussie expression with over 250 labels now available.

For short reviews of 24 Australian Gins please see my article here.

Rating System

Where possible I review each of them for you in detail, including interviews of their distillers.  The ratings provided are of one of their range I’ve sampled, not a reflection of their entire range.

Meanwhile, for those I’ve tried there is a rating:

1. Best used in Molotov cocktails only
2. Either a work in progress, or best used in a mixed drink.
3. Respectable and workmanlike-good for a great G+T or a gutsy Martini
4. Martini-worthy in the elegant style
5. World class premium Gin

Note, this list does not necessarily include multiple gin releases from each distillery.

If you know of any I’ve missed please get in touch.

• Five Nines Distilling Gin ,South Australia
• 1875 Gin – Wild River Mountain Distillery ,North Queensland
• 1770 Distillery Queensland
• 23rd Street Distillery South Australia
• 36S Blood Orange Gin South Australia  **** read review here
• Abel Gin Company Tasmania ****
• Adams Distillery Tasmania ***
• Alchemy Distillery Victoria
• Ambleside Distillers (South Australia)
• Antipodes Gin Co  Organic **** Read review here
• Animus Distillery Victoria  ***
• Applewood Distillery South Australia  *****  Read review here
• Anther Gin Victoria *** (was Artemis Gin)
• Archie Rose Distilling Company Sydney NSW  ***** read review here for original release
• Art of Booze Queensland
• Adelaide Hills Distillery **** South Australia
• Apothecary Gin Tasmania ***
• Bakehouse Distillery Tasmania
• Bakery Hill Distillery – Oxford Scholar Gin South Australia ***
• Barossa Distilling Company, Generations Gin South Australia
• Bass and Flinders Gin Victoria *** / **** read review here of their regular and  Monsoon versions 
• Balcombe Dry Gin Victoria
• BeGin Gin Victoria **
• Beacon Gin Western Australia
• Beach Box Gin Victoria
• Bellarine Gin Victoria
• Big Tree Distillery Victoria
• Big River Distillery, Australian Capital Territory– coming in August 2018
• Blind Tiger Gin South Australia  ***** Read review here
• Brunswick Aces, Victoria – non-Alcholhic distilled spirit
• Blue Still Young, New South Wales
• Botanic Australis Gin North Queensland****  read review here + Navy Strength version
• Brocken Spectre Gin for Tonic Tasmania ***
• Brookie’s Gin, Byron Bay, New South Wales
• Castle Glen ,Queensland
• Catcher & Co Cooma, New South Wales Bathtub gin: **** Read review here
• Cedar Fox Distillery , Victoria
• Chief’s Son Distillery , Victoria no website yet
• Copperwave Gin , New South Wales
• Cloudy Lobo Ciders ,South Australia
• Dasher and Fisher Gin Tasmania – several versions ***/**** read review here
• Darby Norris Distillery, Tasmania
• Dead Governors Gin Swan Valley, Western Australia
• Death Gin Victoria
• Durand Distillery South Australia
• East view Estate (aka Dodson’s Gin) New South Wales ****
• Encounter Coast Spirits , South Australia
• Four Pillars Gin Healesville, Victoria **** read review here  (several versions available)
• Forty Spotted Gin , Tasmania  **** read review here + here ****
• Fossey’s Gin Victoria
• Flinders Peak Winery and Distillery, Queensland
• Flinders Island Distillery, Tasmania
• Geographe Distillery Beacon Gin ,Western Australia
• Gidgegannup Distilleries , Western Australia
• Gin XLCR  – Baker Williams ,New South Wales
• Ginnifer Golden Gin ,Western Australia
• Glen Gowrie Gin , New South Wales
• Godfather Pepperberry Gin Tasmania
• Granddad Jacks Distillery Queensland
• Grasslands Gin New South Wales  ***  read review here
• Great Southern Gin – London Dry Style  Western Australia
• Great Ocean Road Gin Victoria
• Grove Experience  Western Australia
• Hartshorn Distillery Tasmania
• Here’s Looking at You Kid Distillery Victoria
• Hells Gate Gin Tasmania
• Hellfire Distillery London Dry Gin Tasmania
• Hemp Gin  (New South Wales) ***
• High Spirits Distillery Western Australia
• Hobart No. 4 Tasmania  ***** read review here of original release
• Hippocampus Metropolitan Distillery (was WA now made in Victoria) **
• HumpyBong Distillery Queensland
• Hunter Valley Distillery New South Wales
• Hunnington Distillery Tasmania
• High Spirits Distillery Western Australia
• Hurdle Creek Still, Yardarm Distilled Gin Victoria
• Ink Gin Northern New South Wales ***
• Ironbark Gin New South Wales ****
• Iron House Brewery Distillery Tasmania
• Joadja Dry Gin New South Wales
• Kalki Moon Premium Gin Queensland  ***.5
• Kilderkin Distillery (Victoria) ***
• Killara Distillery (Tasmania) ***.5
• Kangaroo Island Spirits Wild Gin Kangaroo Island, South Australia ****
• Knocklofty Spirits, Penn Gin  Tasmania
• Lawrenny Distillery Tasmania *****
• Loch Brewery + Distillery Victoria ****  read review here
• Lord Byron Distillery New South Wales
• Lilly Pilly Gin Queensland
• Lyrebird Gin South Australia
• Martin Distillation Company South Australia ****
• Manly Spirits Gin , Brookvale New South Wales  **** 
• Margaret River Distillery Western Australia ****
• McHenry Classic Dry Gin Tasmania) *****    read review here of original release
• Melbourne Gin Company Victoria ***** read review here
• MC Gin South Australia
• Mobius Distilling New South Wales
• Moore’s Vintage Dry Gin, Distillery Botanica, New South Wales Dry Gin: *** read review here of original release
• Mountain Mist Gin New South Wales
• Motorcycle Gin Tasmania
• Mt Wellington Gin Tasmania
• Never Never Gin South Australia ****
• New World Projects Small Batch Gin Melbourne***
• Noosa Heads Distillery, Queensland
• Nonesuch Distillery Tasmania   read review here of this Sloe Gin and read review here of their Dry Gin.****
• Of All the Gin Joints Distillery Victoria
• Opal Blue Premium Dry Gin Western Australia
• Old Young’s Gin Western Australia ****.5
• Old Kempton Distillery Tasmania
• Original Spirits Company Victoria ***
• Ounce Gin South Australia) ***
• Oxford Scholar Gin Victoria ***
• Patient Wolf Gin Victoria *****
• Penn Gin Tasmania
• Phaedrus Estate Gin Victoria
• Poltergeist Gin Tasmania **** 
• Poor Tom’s Gin New South Wales ***
• Pot and Still South Australia
• Prohibition Liquor Co. South Australia   ****
• Quandong Gin South Australia
• Reed and Co Distilling Victoria ***.5
• Retiring Gin Tasmania ***.5 Read review here
• Red Hen Gin South Australia
• Redlands Distillery Embezzler Gin Tasmania
• Remedy Small Batch Gin Victoria
• Saleyards Distillery Billy Goats Gin Queensland ***
• Settler’s Gin McClaren Vale, SA- including Rare Dry Gin Read review here *** & Barrel aged ****
• Seclusion Gin Bruny Island, Tasmania***
• Sheene Estate Tasmania ****
• Sin Gin Murray Hotel, Western Australia ***
• Southern Wild Distillery Tasmania  ***
• Souwester Spirits Western Australia
• Strait Dry Gin + Sloe Gin Tasmania
• Strange Omen Hopped Gin Tasmania
• Stone Pine Gin + Truffle Gin and others New South Wales **** read review here
• Story Wines Gin Victoria
• Spring Bay Distillery Tasmania ****
• Sud Polaire Gin Tasmania*****
• Suter and Sons Dry Gin Victoria
• Sullivans Cove Tasmania Mt Wellington Gin  & Hobart No4 Gin *****
• The Splendid Gin Tasmania ****
• The Story Gin Victoria
• The Grove Gin Western Australia
• The Whiskery Victoria
• The Canberra Distillery Canberra) *** read review here
• The Siding Gerringong, New South Wales
• Tintenbar Distillery New South Wales
• Tiny Bear Distillery Knoxfield Victoria
• Triple GGG Gin Victoria
• Underground Spirits Gin Canberra ****
• Waterview Distillery Queensland
• West Winds Gin Western Australia read review here ***** 
• Wildbrumby Gin New South Wales read review here ****
• Wild River Mountain Distillery Queensland
• Wilmot Hills Gin Tasmania
• Young Henry’s Noble Cut Gin New South Wales Read review here***