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I prefer St. George Botanivore, but I respect Terroir.

Also, Monkey 47 and Nolets for particularly floral gin. M47 is pricey, Nolets is almost as good for about half the price.

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I've only tried the Terroir, but heard there's three in the 'range'?

In Australia we're spoiled for variety with local products, but I'm guessing because of the pain of doing so, only the larger foreign distilleries export over to Australia, and presumably not their full ranges of spirits.

Will keep an eye out for Botanivore, in any case, as I'm quite taken with the Terroir.

The other one is a rye aged gin. Obviously, it has a bit more of a whiskey tone, but it is good as well.

Cool, thanks for the heads up. I've got an order in for the Botanica (a few places seem to have that, happily).

Looks like only one Australian stockist for the Dry Rye, and they're out of stock. It's on my backlog list now.

Botanist when you want ALL the favlors. And as a bonus it's 96 proof, too.

Putting in a plug for Brooklyn Gin. It's turned my entire Southern bourbon-swilling family into gin drinkers. It's small-batch gin distilled in, well, you guessed it. http://www.brooklyngin.com/

I'll know in a few days, but it sounds like this may be the North American equivalent of the Poltergeist Unfiltered (out of Tasmania, Australia) -- which keeps winning Golds (or better) in global gin awards / competitions.

'All the flavours' is a great description -- it's not a muddle of competing flavours, it's just really a very busy (and terribly pleasant) combination.

Can confirm.

St George Botanica is tremendously good.

If you enjoy that, and want something just like it but even more so -- hunt down a bottle of the Poltergeist Unfiltered, and thank me later.

I'd suggest the Botanica is on a par, quality and complexity wise, with the Poltergeist 'True Spirit'.

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