This page will point you to all the over 250 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 check that out.
I’ve grouped the articles into four categories, Reviews, Insights and Various, plus a section of cocktail recipes and more.
Most are written by myself, but I’m fortunate to have some passionate and informed guest contributors from around the world to add their voices to the mix.
As always, I welcome your thoughts, feedback, questions and suggestions for future articles, and if you’ve interested in becoming a contributor too, or are a distiller and have a release you’d like reviewed, please contact me.
Phillip
Last updated 5 November 2023
Handy Pages
- Australian Rum Makers List – Updated 13 August 2023
- Australian Vodka Makers List – Updated 23 October 2023
- Australian Single Malt, Rye + Blended Whisky Makers List – Updated 13 August 2023
- Australian Gin Makers List – Updated 5 November 2023
- Australian Vermouth Makers List updated 1 November 2021
- Australian Distillers making hand sanitiser updated 9 June 2020
- About Tonic Water,+ Reviews (plus what’s available in Australia) – Updated 1 May 2023
- Buying Australian Spirits Online updated 15 November 2020
- Events and other Services updated 3 January 2022
- Japanese Gin updated 13 November 2021
- Martini Whisperer YouTube Channel (external channel)
- Media Appearances, podcasts, interviews etc updated 1 November 2021
- New Zealand Gins – Updated 23 October 2023
Various
- Updated Australian Distillery Lists and Upcoming Reviews – October ’21
- Three Canberra Events Coming up – May 2021
- 2019 Australian Gin Advent Calendar
- 2018 Australian Gin Advent Calendar
- 2017 Australian Gin Advent Calendar
- 10 Gins for the Commercial Bar
- 10 Australian Spirits to Know
- Australian Drinks Festival July 2016
- Australian Gin Book
- Buying Australian Spirits Online
- Canberra Cocktail Bar List updated 5 January 2020
- Canberra Centre VIP Opening Masterclass July 2017
- Canberra Martini Survey 2016
- Canberra Region Distilleries 2023 – updated 8 July 2023
- Cocktail and Distillery Tour of Japan in September 2019
- Consulting Services
- Event: French Gin Degustation Dinner, November 2017
- Event: November 16 2017 Canberra Design Festival
- Exclusive Martini Whisperer Face masks
- Floriade Presentations 2014
- Good Food Month Degustation Dinner in Canberra 2014
- Giveaway Competition: Three Fold Gin (January 2020)
- It’s a Wrap: World Martini Day Day Dinner 2016
- Japanese Gin List updated June 22 2019
- Lawrenny Estate Live September 2021
- Martini Appreciation Soirees + Masterclass events
- Martini: A Memoir
- May 2023 Update
- New Zealand Gin List updated 1 May 2023
- Top 5 Melbourne Martinis
- The 10 Must-have Gins for home
- Top Shelf Boutique Drinks Show Melbourne 2014
- The Centenary Martini
- Two Special Upcoming Events February 2018
- Vive Le French Gin
Cocktail Insights + Recipes
- 2019 Original Cocktail Recipes: Part 1
- 2019 Orignal Cocktail Recipes: Part 2 – Spritzers
- Cocktail Shakers + Mixers 101
- Canberra Gin Dinner Recipes December 2021
- Dry Vermouth
- How it all started for me and 3 cocktail recipes (video)
- Fall Spritz at the Canberra Centre
- Ice, Ice, Baby
- Is Winter the perfect season for a Martini?
- Martini Garnishes
- Mulled Wine and Winter Warmers
- Negroni Week 2019 Recipes
- Orange Bitters
- Recipe: French Gin Degustation Dinner
- Recipe: La Martini Deluxe
- Recipe: The Bardot
- Six Martini Pitfalls
- The Six Types of Martini (and no, they’re not what you think they are)
- The Dry Martini
- The Espresso Martini
- The Dirty Martini
- The Cold Light Martini & Play
- Vodka Martinis
- Why Gin Martinis?
- 2019 Tokyo World Gin Day Festival Part 1 of 2 Special Guest Contributor – Simon
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 (new in 2020)
- Tonic Waters available in Australia(and a quick history)
- Top 10 Melbourne Cocktail Bars list Part 1
- Top 10 Melbourne Cocktail Bars list Part 2
- 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
- Final article of the year: It’s a wrap for 2022! and top five Martinis of the year
- 2020 Top Five Martini Experiences
- 2018- A year of highlights!
- 2017 and all that Jazz
- 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 101
- Cameo on Real Housewives of Melbourne
- Dry July and other adventures! July 2018
- Ecosystem in Adelaide for craft spirits and cocktail bars
- 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
- James Bond and his Martinis
- Japanese Gin List
- Judging the Perth Royal Distilled Spirits Awards 2019
- Juniper for the Gin special guest contributor – Gavin from Archie Rose Distillery
- Judging the Perth Royal Distilled Spirits Awards 2019
- Influencers and the Australian Distilling Industry Part 1
- Interview: ABC Radio Canberra 2018
- Makers of Australian Craft Spirits Stills
- Martini Masterclass Captured Graphically!
- Martini Diplomacy: Berlin
- Martini Diplomacy: Oman
- 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
- Podcast Interview 2021 with Ashley Feraude
- TEDx Canberra preview
- TEDx Canberra- The Martini Presentation update
- TEDx talk: The cultural history of the Martini
- Thoughts on Melbourne Service
- Top Shelf Drink Festival 2014Tokyo Gin Festival 2019 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
- Visiting Joadja Distillery
- What’s in a Glass?
- What to look for in Whisky Trends
- World Record Gin Tasting event Canberra 2020
- 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
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