Here is the definitive list of Australian Gins with links to their distillers and my reviews which often include an interview with the maker.

LAST UPDATED 21 July 2017

Several years back when I was seeking spirits for the Centenary Martini I tried as many as I could find, and many were, shall we say, robust.

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.

Most are using local botanicals and waters too giving them a distinctly Australian tone. We’re living in the golden age of Australian craft gins!
Note the list doesn’t specify all the products made by each distiller, and in many cases they make several styles of gin.

Rating System

Over time I’ll be reviewing each of them for you in detail. Meanwhile, those I’ve tried have an interim star 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 the multiple gin releases from each distillery. If you know of any I’ve missed please get in touch.

• 1827 Wild Swan Gin (Western Australia)
• 23rd Street Distillery (South Australia)
• Abel Gin Company (Tasmania)
• Adams Distillery (Tasmania) New in 2017
• Antipodes Gin Co  Organic **** Read review here
• Animus Distillery
• Applewood Distillery (South Australia)  *****  Read review here
• Artemis Gin (Victoria) ***
• Archie Rose Distilling Company (Sydney NSW)  **** read review here
• Adelaide Hills Distillery **** (South Australia)
• Apothecary Gin (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) new in 2017
• Begin Gin (Victoria) **
• Beacon Gin (Western Australia)
• Blind Tiger Gin (South Australia)  ***** Read review here
• 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 (New South Wales)
• Castle Glen (Queensland)
• Catcher & Co (Cooma, New South Wales) **** Read review here
• Copperwave Gin (New South Wales) – apparently the first Australian Organic Gin
• Dasher and Fisher Gin (Tasmania) – three versions
• Dead Governors Gin (Swan Valley, Western Australia)
• East view Estate (aka Dodson’s Gin)  (New South Wales) ****
• Encounter Coast Spirits (South Australia)
• Four Pillars Gin (Victoria)  **** read review here  (several versions available)
• Forty Spotted Gin (Tasmania) **** read review here + here ****
• Fossey’s Gin (New South Wales) new in 2017
• Geographe Distillery Beacon Gin (Western Australia)
• Gin XLCR (New South Wales)
• Ginnifer Golden Gin (Western Australia)
• Godfather Pepperberry Gin (Tasmania)
• Grasslands Gin (New South Wales)  ***  read review here
• Great Southern Gin – London Dry Style  (Western Australia)
• Grove Experience  (Western Australia)
• Hartshorn Distillery (Tasmania)
• Hellfire Distillery London Dry Gin (Tasmania)
• Hobart No. 4 (Tasmania)  ***** read review here
• Hippocampus Metropolitan Distillery (Western Australia) new in 2016
• Hurdle Creek Still, Yardarm Distilled Gin (Victoria)
• Ink Gin (Northern New South Wales)
• Ironbark Gin (New South Wales)
• Jinn Dry Gin (Bottled and filtered in Australia from imported spirit)  *
• Kilderkin Distillery (Victoria)
• KIS Wild Gin (Kangaroo Island) **** (several other versions  also available)
• Loch Brewery + Distillery (Victoria) ****  read review here
• Lilly Pilly Gin (Queensland)
• Manly Spirits Gin (New South Wales) new in 2017
• McHenry Classic Dry Gin (Tasmania) *****   (several versions available) read review here
• Melbourne Gin Company (Victoria) ***** read review here
• Mobius Distilling (New South Wales) new in 2017
• Moore’s Vintage Dry Gin, Distillery Botanica, (New South Wales) *** read review here
• Mountain Mist Gin (New South Wales)
• Motorcycle Gin (Tasmania) no website
• Mt Wellington Gin (Tasmania)
• New World Projects Small Batch Gin (Melbourne) ****
• Nonesuch Distillery (Tasmania)  ***  read review here of this Sloe Gin and read review here of their Dry Gin.
• Opal Blue Premium Dry Gin (Western Australia)
• 1829 Old Young’s Gin (Western Australia)
• Ounce Gin (South Australia)  ***
• Oxford Scholar Gin (Victoria) ***
• Patient Wolf Gin (Victoria) New in 2017
• Penn Gin (Tasmania) New in 2017
• Poltergeist Gin (Tasmania) *****
• Poor Tom’s Gin (New South Wales)  ***
• Prohibition Liquor Co. (South Australia)   ****
• Quandong Gin (South Australia)
• Retiring Gin (Tasmania) ***.5 Read review here
• Red Hen Gin (South Australia)
• Remedy Small Batch Gin (Victoria)    New in 2017
• Reveli Gin (Western Australia)
• Settler’s Gin (McClaren Vale, SA) – offer several versions including Rare Dry Gin Read review here *** & Barrel aged ****
• Seclusion Gin (Bruny Island, Tasmania)
• Sin Gin (Murray Hotel, Western Australia)
• Snoddy’s Gin (New South Wales)
• Southern Wild Distillery three versions (Tasmania)   New in 2017  ***
• Strait Dry Gin + Sloe Gin (Tasmania)
• Stone Pine Gin (New South Wales) **** read review here
• Sud Polaire Gin (Tasmania) *****
• Sullivans Cove (Tasmania) Mt Wellington Gin  & Hobart No4 Gin *****
• The Splendid Gin (Tasmania)
• The Story Gin (Victoria)
• The Grove Gin (Western Australia)
• The Canberra Distillery (Canberra)  *** read review here
• Underground Spirits Gin (Canberra) New in 2017 ****
• West Winds Gin (Western Australia)  read review here *****
• Wild Bush Organic Lemon Gin (Queensland)
• Wild Brumby Gin (New South Wales)
• Wilmot Hills Gin (Tasmania)
• Young Henry’s Noble Cut Gin (New South Wales)  Read review here ***