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

LAST UPDATED 18 April 2018

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.

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) three versions ***
• Applewood Distillery (South Australia)  *****  Read review here
• Anther Gin (Victoria) *** (was Artemis Gin)
• Archie Rose Distilling Company (Sydney NSW)  ***** read review here
• 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)
• 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) Bathtub gin: **** Read review here
• Cedar Fox Distillery (Victoria)
• Copperwave Gin (New South Wales)
• Cloudy Lobo Ciders (South Australia)
• Dasher and Fisher Gin (Tasmania) – three versions ***/****
• Darby Norris Distillery 8
• 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 (Victoria)
• 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)
• 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 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) **** (several other versions  also available)
• Knocklofty Spirits, Penn Gin  (Tasmania)
• Lawrenny Distillery (two versions- 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 (New South Wales)  **** (several versions)
• Margaret River Distillery (Western Australia) (several versions available) ****
• McHenry Classic Dry Gin (Tasmania) *****   (several versions available) read review here
• 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
• 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) ***
• 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)
• Old Young’s Gin (Western Australia) **** (several versions)
• 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) **** (both versions)
• 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)
• 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) – several versions including Rare Dry Gin Read review here *** & Barrel aged ****
• Seclusion Gin (Bruny Island, Tasmania) ***
• Sheene Estate (Tasmania) **** several versions
• Sin Gin (Murray Hotel, Western Australia)
• Southern Wild Distillery three versions (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
• Tintenbar Distillery (New South Wales)
• Tiny Bear Distillery (Knoxfield Victoria)
• Underground Spirits Gin (Canberra)  ****
• Waterview Distillery (Queensland)
• West Winds Gin (Western Australia)  read review here ***** several versions available 
• Wildbrumby Gin (New South Wales) read review here **** several versions available 
• Wild River Mountain Distillery (Queensland)
• Wilmot Hills Gin (Tasmania)
• Young Henry’s Noble Cut Gin (New South Wales)  Read review here***