Four Pillars Rare Dry Gin, 70 cl - Award Winning Premium Australian Gin - With 9 Signature Botanicals and Mediterranean Citrus - Idea for Gin and Tonic Serves

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With just about every distillery and their cat (it’s a thing) making at least one expression, with many offering seasonal limited releases and barrel-aged examples, if you’re not already drinking the stuff then now’s the time to start. And ‘I got really drunk on it once when I was a teenager and now I can’t touch the stuff’is not a valid excuse. From: South Australia, distilled using green ants harvested by Something Wild co-owners the Motlop family, in the Northern Territory. You’ll find Ambleside Distillers on the road to Hahndorf. They have a gorgeous tasting bar serving drinks and food platters. Focusing on differentiating the distillation process, Adelaide Hills Distillery uses a careful approach to crafting its spirits. Making the most use of pure Adelaide Hills water, the team here employ a vapour distillation method using a unique column and basket technique purposed towards retaining as much of the flavours and aromas of the various botanicals used.

Stuart Gregor, co-founder of Four Pillars Gin and president of the Australian Distillers Association, notes that within the craft segment, “growth is coming from every state and territory in the country – in regional and rural areas and increasingly in cities and nearby suburbs.” The initiative #KNOWMYNAME was created to honour and recognise the role Australian women have played in shaping Australian culture. This collab between Adelaide Hills Distillery and Something Wild Beverage Company is truly special, and no doubt one of the best Australian gin on the market. It's infused with green ants harvested in the Northern Territory by the Motlop family of the Larrakia people. Green ant brings a lime and coriander flavour, and you'll find a couple of ants in the bottom of the bottle for extra zest—yes, you can eat them. There's also pepper berry, lemon myrtle and boobialla (native juniper). Let the flavours soar in one of the best Australian gin and tonics you can make from home. Shop it here.Closed: Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Day and Good Friday Patient Wolf Distillery, South Melbourne Infused with bergamot and lavender, Canberra Distillery’s craft gin is delicate and fragrant. The Canberra Distillery Of all the gins out there, none hit the sweet spot between classic gin flavour and moreish complexity quite like No. 3. If you have room for just one gin on your shelf, we’d make it this one. You knew Four Pillars was coming up sooner or later, and while this list isn’t ranked, we figured we’d highlight some of the lesser-known Australian distilleries first before getting to this industry behemoth.

Australian craft spirits continue to face intense competition from larger brands, says Gregor, adding that some players are “doing a great job [of] bringing people to the gin category with their marketing budgets… Our job is to then take that consumer and show them something unique, maybe a little more luxury, and deliver them a fantastic experience.” There was an impressive selection of Australian gins at this year’s IWSC, with Four Pillars Distillery’s Single Barrel S36 Gin standing out for ‘flavours of rich fruit cake, cinnamon, smooth caramel, succulent liquorice, vintage leather and a gentle caress of warm vanilla spice,’ characteristics that helped earn it 98 points from the judges. Another 98 points went to the Australian gin Kangaroo Island O Gin, which was praised for its ‘fragrant neroli and jasmine perfume.’Australian ant pheromones are the star of this unique Australian gin. Plant-based botanicals compliment the pheromones released by the ants during distillation The Australian craft gin relies on locally sourced produce and botanicals. Both the limes and green tea leaves are sourced from local producer Seven Seas. With so much freedom afforded to those who make it, it’s little surprise that so many styles of gin have arisen across the world (for example, an ‘Old Tom’ gin like Hernö has a distinctly different flavour compared to a ‘London Dry’ like Bombay Sapphire), and it’s this freedom that has helped gin become probably the most diverse and popular craft spirit in Australia today. Seriously, go and look at how many great Aussie gins there are out there. It’s quite astounding. Here are just a few!