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    GIN CITIES

    Nov 03, 2019 4 minutes
    JOY WALTERFANG

    FIFTEEN years ago you would have been struggling to find an Australian made boutique gin. Fast forward to 2015; Melbourne hosts the inaugural Australian Distilled Spirits Awards. By the time the 2016 awards came around Aussie handcrafted gins showed the largest growth of all the spirit categories with 44 entries. This year, 2019, judges were presented with 168 of that juniper-flavoured white spirit, reflecting the topsy-like growth of gin distillers in Australia. The catalyst for this gin explosion happened in 2006 with the revoking of the archaic 1901 Distillation Act that outlawed the use of small stills to ensure only large commercial enterprises could distill spirits.

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