Article Index: updated 4 June 2023

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, plus articles on my facebook page and an article here on the website weekly- so make sure you follow me there as well.

I’ve grouped the posts 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 4 June 2023

Handy Pages

1. Australian Rum Makers List  – Updated 1 May 2023
2. Australian Vodka Makers List – Updated 4 June 2023
3. Australian Single Malt, Rye + Blended Whisky Makers List – Updated 1 May 2023
4. Australian Gin Makers List – Updated 4 June 2023
5. Australian Vermouth Makers List  updated 1 November 2021
6. Australian Distillers making hand sanitiser updated 9 June 2020
7. About Tonic Water,+ Reviews (plus what’s available in Australia) – Updated 1 May 2023
8. Buying Australian Spirits Online updated 15 November 2020
9. Events and other Services  updated 3 January 2022
10. Japanese Gin updated 13 November 2021 
11. Martini Whisperer YouTube Channel  (external channel)
12. Media Appearances, podcasts, interviews etc updated 1 November 2021
13. New Zealand Gins – Updated 1 May 2023

Various

1. Updated Australian Distillery Lists and Upcoming Reviews – October ’21
2. Three Canberra Events Coming up – May 2021
3. 2019 Australian Gin Advent Calendar
4. 2018 Australian Gin Advent Calendar
5. 2017 Australian Gin Advent Calendar
6. 10 Gins for the Commercial Bar
7. 10 Australian Spirits to Know 
8. Australian Drinks Festival July 2016
9. Australian Gin Book 
10. Buying Australian Spirits Online  
11. Canberra Cocktail Bar List  updated 5 January 2020
12. Canberra Centre VIP Opening Masterclass July 2017
13. Canberra Martini Survey 2016
14. Canberra Region Distilleries 2022
15. Cocktail and Distillery Tour of Japan in September 2019
16. Consulting Services
17. Event: French Gin Degustation Dinner, November 2017
18. Event: November 16 2017 Canberra Design Festival
19. Exclusive Martini Whisperer Face masks
20. Floriade Presentations 2014
21. Good Food Month Degustation Dinner in Canberra 2014
22. Giveaway Competition: Three Fold Gin (January 2020)
23. It’s a Wrap: World Martini Day Day Dinner 2016
24. Japanese Gin List updated June 22 2019
25. Lawrenny Estate Live September 2021
26. Martini Appreciation Soirees + Masterclass events
27. Martini: A Memoir
28. May 2023 Update
29. New Zealand Gin List updated 1 May 2023
30. Top 5 Melbourne Martinis
31. The 10 Must-have Gins for home
32. Top Shelf Boutique Drinks Show Melbourne 2014
33. The Centenary Martini
34. Two Special Upcoming Events  February 2018
35. Vive Le French Gin

Cocktail Insights + Recipes

1. 2019 Original Cocktail Recipes: Part 1
2. 2019 Orignal Cocktail Recipes: Part 2 – Spritzers
3. Cocktail Shakers + Mixers 101
4. Canberra Gin Dinner Recipes December 2021
5. Dry Vermouth
6. How it all started for me and 3 cocktail recipes (video)
7. Fall Spritz at the Canberra Centre
8. Ice, Ice, Baby
9. Is Winter the perfect season for a Martini? 
10. Martini Garnishes
11. Mulled Wine and Winter Warmers
12. Negroni Week 2019 Recipes
13. Orange Bitters
14. Recipe: French Gin Degustation Dinner
15. Recipe: La Martini Deluxe
16. Recipe: The Bardot
17. Six Martini Pitfalls
18. The Six Types of Martini (and no, they’re not what you think they are)
19. The Dry Martini
20. The Espresso Martini
21. The Dirty Martini
22. The Cold Light Martini & Play
23. Vodka Martinis
24. Why Gin Martinis?

Reviews

1. 2019 Tokyo World Gin Day Festival Part 1 of 2 Special Guest Contributor – Simon
2. 5 Melbourne Cocktail Bars (reviews)
3. 24 Australian Craft Gins tasting notes – 2019
4. 24 Australian Craft Gins tasting notes – 2018
5. 24 Australian Craft Gins tasting notes – 2017
6. 36S Rakia
7. 36S Blood Orange Gin 
8. 495 Russian Vodka
9. Applewood Distillery Gin
10. Antipodes Gin
11. Archie Rose Signature Dry Gin
12. Aussie Tipple Company Range 
13. Bareksten Navy Strength Gin Special Guest Contributor – Jens
14. Beachtree Distilling Co. Gins 
15. Blood Moon Tonic
16. Blue Bottle Gin
17. Berlin Brandstifter Gin
18. Bass + Flinders Gin
19. Botanic Australis Gin
20. Brooklyn Gin Special Guest Contributor – Jens
21. Brunswick Aces – non Alcoholic spirits
22. Black Market Cocktail Bar Special Guest Contributor – M
23. Blind Tiger Organic Gin
24. Casa Noble Tequila – Blanco (Part 1) Special Guest Contributor – Chris
25. Casa Noble Tequila – Part 2 Special Guest Contributor – Chris
26. Canberra Distillery, Original Release
27. Catcher & Co Bathtub Gin
28. Causes and Cures Semi Dry Vermouth 2017
29. Causes and Cures Vermouths
30. Cure Tonic Syrups
31. Dasher and Fisher Gins 
32. Diamond Glacier 33 Vodka
33. Everleigh Premixed Cocktails
34. Ferdinand Saar Dry Gin 
35. Fleurieu Distillery – River’s End Whisky  Special Guest Contributor – Chris
36. Fire Drum Vodka
37. Forty Spotted Gin
38. Forty Spotted Gin Summer Release 
39. Four Pillars Dry Gin
40. Garden Tiger Gin
41. Gin Loot Subscription Pack
42. Grasslands Gin
43. G Gin special guest contributor -Jens
44. Harahon Norwegian Small Batch Gin  special guest contributor -Jens
45. Hernö Pink BTL Gin special guest contributor -Jens
46. Headland’s Distillery’s Gins and Illawarra Plum releases
47. Heavy Water Oz Vodka
48. Hillmartin Gin Distillery Gins 
49. Hobart No.4 Gin
50. Imbue Distillery Gin Range
51. Japanese Gin
52. Jensen’s Bermondsey London dry gin
53. Kangaroo Island Vodka
54. Kalki Moon Dry Australian Premium Gin
55. Kyoto Distillery Kinobi Kyoto Dry Gin – part 1  Special Guest Contributor – Simon
56. Kyoto Distillery Kinobi Kyoto Sei Navy Strength Gin – part 2 Special Guest Contributor – Simon
57. Loch Distillery Gin Liqueur
58. Loch Gin
59. Lord Howe Island Distilling Co Gins
60. Lucky’s Bar at QT Canberra
61. Melbourne Gin Company
62. Moore’s Vintage Dry Gin
63. Molly Speakeasy Bar Canberra 
64. McHenry Classic Dry Gin
65. McHenry Federation Gin
66. Maidenii Dry Vermouth
67. Mr Black coffee liqueur
68. NB Gin 
69. NB Vodka
70. Nonesuch Distillery Sloe Gin
71. Nonesuch Distillery Dry Gin
72. Norrbottens Distilleri Mountain Dry Gin  Special Guest Contributor Jens
73. Occitan London Dry Gin
74. Orange Bitters
75. Original Spirit Company Dry Gin 
76. Pink Moon Saloon Special Guest Contributor – Scarlet Decoy
77. Prohibition Bathtub Cut Gin
78. QT Lucky’s Bar Hotel Canberra 2014
79. Sakurao Gin Original Special Guest Contributor – Simon
80. Sandy Gray Gin 
81. Santa Fe Spirits Wheeler’s Gin
82. Seacliff Vodka 
83. Settler’s Artisan Rare Dry Gin
84. St. George Spirits 
85. Stone Pine Gin
86. Stockholms Bränneri Dry Gin Special Guest Contributor -Jens
87. Stockholms Bränneri Dry Gin – Navy Strength Special Guest Contributor -Jens
88. Stockholms Bränneri Oak Gin Special Guest Contributor -Jens
89. StrangeLove Tonic Waters
90. Summerleas Distillery Strength Gin 
91. Tasmanian Tonic Water Company
92. Tempus Two Gins
93. The Everleigh Pre-Mixed Cocktail range
94. The Botanist Gin Special Guest Contributor -Jens 
95. The Barbershop, Sydney Special Guest Contributor  – Scarlet Decoy
96. The Canberra Distillery Gin
97. The Lawrenny Range
98. The Retiring Gin
99. The West Winds Cutlass Gin
100. The West Winds Gin- Maidenii Voyage Release
101. Threefold Gin (new in 2020)
102. Tonic Waters available in Australia(and a quick history)
103. Top 10 Melbourne Cocktail Bars list Part 1
104. Top 10 Melbourne Cocktail Bars list Part 2
105. Truffle Mad Gin 
106. Underground Spirits Gin and Vodka 
107. Unexpected Guest Distillery Gins  
108. Vive La French Gin 
109. Vestal Vodka
110. Vicar’s Son Gin Range 
111. Wheeler’s Western Dry Gin
112. Windspiel Premium Dry Gin Special Guest Contributor -Jens
113. Winter Warmers and Mulled Wine 
114. Wildbrumby Stallion Navy Strength Gin 
115. Young Henrys Noble Cut Gin
116. 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