The range

Gin

An Australian-led gin range. Four Pillars from the Yarra Valley, Archie Rose and Poor Toms from Sydney, Never Never from Adelaide, Manly Spirits from the northern beaches, Brookie's from Byron Bay, Karu from the Blue Mountains and Applewood from the Adelaide Hills — alongside Tanqueray, Hendrick's, Monkey 47, Gin Mare and The Botanist.

Australian gin tends to lead with native botanicals — lemon myrtle, pepperberry, finger lime — where a London dry leads with juniper. Both are here. If you are building a G&T, a contemporary Australian gin will carry a tonic further; if you are making a martini, juniper-forward is usually the safer bet.

29bottles. Every one with a reason written against it.

  • Islay · Scotland

    The Botanist Islay Dry Gin

    We stock it because it is a whisky distillery's gin and it shows - more texture and weight than the category usually carries, and it rewards being drunk on its own.

    700 mL46.0%25.4 std

    $94.99

  • London · England

    Tanqueray No. TEN Gin

    We stock it because it is the bottle that proves what fresh fruit does in a still, and because it makes a Martini that needs nothing else.

    700 mL47.3%26.1 std

    $89.99

  • London · England

    Tanqueray London Dry Gin

    We stock it because a shelf of contemporary gins needs a reference point, and this is it - the bottle everything else is measured against.

    700 mL43.1%23.8 std

    $66.99

  • Yarra Valley, Victoria

    Melbourne Gin Company Dry Gin

    We stock it because separate distillation of every botanical is slow, costly work for a distillery this small, and it never gets the attention the bigger Victorian names do.

    700 mL42.0%23.2 std

    $75.00

  • Osaka · Japan

    Roku Japanese Craft Gin

    We stock it because Suntory's blending discipline is obvious in it, and because the sansho pepper on the finish is unlike anything else here.

    700 mL43.0%23.7 std

    $77.00

  • Sydney, New South Wales

    Poor Toms Sydney Dry Gin

    We stock it because it is the local bottle we most often see people come back for, and because it is the gin to hand someone who thinks they do not like gin.

    700 mL41.6%23.0 std

    $77.99

  • Black Forest · Germany

    Monkey 47 Schwarzwald Dry Gin

    We stock it because it is the most complicated gin most people will ever drink, and because the resting step is unusual enough to be worth explaining.

    500 mL47.0%18.5 std

    $102.99

  • Sydney, New South Wales

    Manly Spirits Australian Dry Gin

    We stock it because the marine botanicals are a real point of difference rather than a story, and because it is another Sydney bottle worth the shelf space.

    700 mL43.0%23.7 std

    $79.99

  • Girvan, Ayrshire · Scotland

    Hendrick's Gin

    We stock it because it opened the door for every flavour-forward gin that followed, and because the cucumber is still the easiest way to show someone that gin is not one thing.

    700 mL41.4%22.9 std

    $80.99

  • London · England

    Gordon's London Dry Gin

    We stock it because a great many people know exactly what they want and it is this, and because a shop that only sells bottles you have to have explained to you is making a point rather than serving anyone.

    700 mL37.2%20.5 std

    $59.99

  • Tumbulgum, New South Wales

    Ink Gin

    We stock it because the colour change is genuine chemistry rather than a dye, and because the gin holds up after the novelty wears off.

    700 mL43.0%23.7 std

    $69.00

  • Girvan, Ayrshire · Scotland

    Hendrick's Neptunia Gin

    We stock it because it is the Hendrick's variant that actually goes somewhere different, and because a salty gin is a genuinely useful thing behind a bar.

    700 mL43.4%24.0 std

    $90.00

  • Yarra Valley, Victoria

    Four Pillars Bloody Shiraz Gin

    We stock it because it is a genuinely Australian idea - a gin that could only come from a wine region - and because it is the bottle people buy to give away.

    700 mL37.8%20.9 std

    $85.99

  • Byron Bay, New South Wales

    Brookie's Slow Gin

    We stock it because it is the rare fruit gin that is not cloying, and because it does the job a sloe gin does without pretending to be English.

    700 mL26.0%14.4 std

    $72.00

  • Sydney, New South Wales

    Archie Rose Signature Dry Gin

    We stock it because it is made in Rosebery, twenty minutes from this shop, and because separate distillation is a real technique rather than a marketing line.

    700 mL42.0%23.2 std

    $77.99

  • Laverstoke, Hampshire · England

    Bombay Sapphire

    We stock it because the vapour basket is a genuine technical difference worth explaining, and because it is the bottle most people picture when they picture gin.

    700 mL40.0%22.1 std

    $66.99

  • Edinburgh · Scotland

    Edinburgh Gin Classic

    We stock it because it sits in the gap between the supermarket bottles and the craft ones, which is where a lot of people actually shop, and because at 43% it does not disappear into tonic.

    700 mL43.0%23.7 std

    $85.00

  • Byron Bay, New South Wales

    Brookie's Byron Dry Gin

    We stock it because the provenance is literal rather than decorative, and because at 46% it has the backbone to sit in a Negroni without vanishing.

    700 mL46.0%25.4 std

    $82.00

  • Richmond, New South Wales

    Karu Pourtrait Gin

    We stock it because a shop that only carries the interesting bottles is not much use on a Friday. This is the gin for a gin and tonic you are not thinking hard about.

    700 mL37.5%20.7 std

    $68.00

  • Richmond, New South Wales

    Karu Lightning Gin

    We stock it because overproof gin earns its place in cocktails - it survives ice and citrus where a 40% gin gets lost. One bottle carries about 32 standard drinks, so it goes further than the price suggests.

    700 mL57.5%31.8 std

    $98.00

  • Richmond, New South Wales

    Karu Affinity Gin

    We stock it because it is the local distillery we would back over an imported name at the same price, and because you can taste where it comes from.

    700 mL44.0%24.3 std

    $82.00