Forget The Festival State, South Australia should be re-named the Gin State. After being inspired by World Gin Day last weekend, I have gone on the hunt for as many SA gins that I can find. I am up to TWELVE, so if I have missed one, please let me know! (main photo thanks to www.womadelaide.com.au)
Ounce Gin: Thebarton
Distilled in Thebarton, representing a contemporary profile whilst adhering to the London Dry standard. Ounce Gin Signature is produced by Imperial Measures Distilling, crafted from carefully selected botanicals highlighted by orange, vanilla and cardamom invigorating a traditional base of juniper and coriander to yield a characterful dry gin.
www.imperialmeasuresdistilling.com
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Red Hen: Adelaide City
Adelaide’s first city distillery, Red Hen Gin is crafted in the Adelaide CBD. Produced in small batches using native botanical, following the traditional London Dry style. Awarded Australia’s ‘Best Small Batch Spirit’ (ADSA)
www.redhengin.com
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Never Never: Royal Park
The Never Never Distilling Co. is dedicated to creating exciting and innovative spirits with and exploring new territory when it comes to flavour. It’s not enough to just create delicious spirit, we want to make them the most flavoursome spirits on the market. This return to flavour is at the heart of everything that we create. There are three Never Never gins: Triple Juniper Gin, Dark Series and Juniper Freak
www.neverneverdistilling.com.au
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Ambleside Distillery: Hahndorf
Ambleside Distillers brings you local batch distilled gin, using our Australian handcrafted copper still, to produce sensational batches of gin, showcasing our own individual tastes and favourable botanicals, each bottle is handcrafted by the Ambleside Distillers themselves.
Big Dry Gin: Our “Big Dry Gin” with its classic dry gin style plus the big flavour of our favourite pepper, the Jalapeno.
No 8 Botanical Gin: A taste of sunshine! This gin showcases beautiful local citrus, surrounded by other local and classic botanicals.
Small Acre Gin: Our gin that uses twelve ingredients including produce from our distillery garden, other local and traditional botanicals.
www.amblesidedistillers.com
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Seppeltsfield Road Distillers: Marananga
At Seppeltsfield Rd Distillers we celebrate our natural environment with blends of beautiful, sensory-selected botanicals, distilled in small batches at our home in Marananga. Seppeltsfield Rd Distillers is very proud to be the first commercial gin distillery located in the Barossa Valley, and we look forward to welcoming you when we officially open our doors in early 2018.
www.seppeltsfieldroaddistillers.com.au
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The first distillery in the pristine Adelaide Hills – Applewood. We aim to provide spirits that reflect the culture and climate we have in Australia – that epitomise freshness, vibrancy and astringency (the hallmarks of what we believe in!) Apart from crafting fine Whisky and Gin, we constantly dabble in experimental small-batch distilling – be it diluting Gin with Saké, torpedo-ing it with Lavender, smoking barely grain with Applewood or crafting refreshing Amaro from Native Australian Riberries.
Lyrebird Australiana Dry Gin is a bush walk, the rain forest, wild dunes and the beach.
https://www.lyrebirddistilling.company/about/
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KI Spirits: Kangaroo Island
The micro Distillery, Kangaroo Island Spirits (kis) is playing its part in ensuring that Kangaroo Island deserves its title of “Australia’s Newest Regional Food Destination”.
Kis is South Australia’s first boutique distillery and produces by hand, in small batches a range of high quality liqueurs and spirits, including some made from local and native ingredients such as KI wild fennel, local ligurian honey, A native juniper and citrus.
drop anchor and savorWild Gin, O’l Gin, Mulberry Gin, Whiskey Barrel Gin, Old Tom Gin
www.kispirits.com.au
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Something Wild: Adelaide Central Markets
Something Wild and Adelaide Hills Distillery collaborated on Australian Green Ant Gin is carefully distilled in a column and basket still, designed by us specifically for gin.
Traditionally favoured by Indigenous societies for their medicinal benefits and protein content, Green Ants display vibrant flavours of Lime and Coriander. This unique bush tucker is hand harvested in the Northern Territory by the Motlop family of the Larrakia people.
www.somethingwild.com.au
facebook.com/somethingwildaus
78 Degrees: Adelaide Hills
Adelaide Hills Distillery’s 78˚ Gin is carefully distilled in a column and basket still, designed by us specifically for gin. A complex and savoury Gin distilled from a grape base and vapour infused with 12 botanicals, selected specifically for their purity and quality. Pungently aromatic and displaying resinous, citrus and floral notes with underlying spice.
www.adelaidehillsdistillery.com.au
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Settlers Spirits: McLaren Vale
In developing our line of gins, we have become the local gin specialists. From our distillery in McLaren Vale, South Australia, Settlers Spirits are quickly becoming the premier, craft gin suppliers of Australia. With 10 different gins on the menu, you can buy Australian sloe gin, pink gin and many other exciting flavours from our own distillery, our many distributors across the country, or even online. We have seven varieties of flavoured gins to choose from. In addition to our flavoured line, we also offer our own classic dry gin: Settlers Rare Dry Gin.
www.settlersspirits.com.au
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instagram.com/settlers_spirits
Prohibition Liquor:
www.prohibitionliquor.co
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Here’s some more: 23rd Street Distillery, Antipodes Gin Co, Barossa Distilling, Blind Tiger Organic Gin, Encounter Coast Spirits, Lobo Djinn, MC Spirits, Pot & Still, Virginia Spirits (36 Short). So many local ones to choose from!