Gordon’s has confirmed that its Premium Gordon’s Pink Gin will be available to independent retailers from July, following a successful launch in the UK and Europe last year. Gin is currently the fastest growing spirits category in Australia, with the 2018 ALSA-IRI State of the Industry report highlighting a 17.4 per cent year-on-year value growth […]
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Prohibition Gin nabs two awards in a week – Gold medals from San Francisco and Adelaide!
South Australian small-batch gin producer Prohibition Gin has had a huge week, with simultaneous gold medal wins on opposite sides of the globe. Prohibition Gin, which recently opened Adelaide’s first city-based distillery in Gilbert St, won a gold medal for its original Prohibition Gin at the prestigious San Francisco World Spirits Competition, announced earlier this […]
O’ndina Super Premium Gin
Campari has cemented its place in the booming gin market with the launch of super-premium O’ndina. It follows the company’s acquisition of Bulldog Gin last year for $US58.4 million Bob Kunze-Concewitz, Chief Executive Officer of Gruppo Campari, noted at the time: ‘We are very pleased to initiate the acquisition of Bulldog Gin which we have […]
Four Pillars Announces New Barrel Aged Gins
You might have heard that we have a couple of new additions to the Four Pillars Gin family officially joining us this week. Not one, but two barrel aged gins, both with very distinct characteristics. So here they are – Four Pillar’s first ever Sherry Cask Gin and Solera No. 7 of the newly-christened Chardonnay Barrel Gin, both in new […]
Ryan Reynolds Buys Aviation Gin
Owned by craft spirits importer and marketer Davos Brands, Aviation is a small, growing player in an otherwise static gin market. The Portland, Oregon-produced alcohol shifted an estimated 15,000 cases in 2016, according to Beverage Marketing Corporation’s DrinkTell database. That is thought to have increased 20% to some 18,000 small batch cases last year. Compared to gin giants such […]
Poltergeist Gin from Tasmania – True Spirit
When the excavations at the historical Shene Estate in Tasmania began, the conservators found hundreds of Dutch case gin bottles, literally lying where they had been cast off the balcony by the landed gentry back in the day. It was the beginning of a year’s long journey that would culminate in the continued survival of […]
Death’s Door American Craft Gin launches in Australia
Death’s Door Gin – which takes its name from the most treacherous waterway in the Great Lakes, separating Washington Island from the Door County peninsula in northern Wisconsin – is a 47 percent ABV, London Dry style of gin, distilled in the Wisconsin town of Middleton. “Australia is the leader of quality spirits consumption in […]
Never Never Gin from Australia strolls onto the world stage
South Australian distillery Never Never Distilling Co. has been named as the only Australian gin to make the Top Trending Gin list by Drinks International. The 2018 edition of the Drinks International list marks the first time an Australian brand has been featured in the top 10, with Never Never coming in at number seven, […]