Distillery-direct · Brisbane to Islay

Gin, by the still.

No supermarket gin. No flavoured-pink sugar bombs. The Caravan range is distillery-direct — small-batch makers from Brisbane to Hiroshima, juniper-led or botanical-forward, real distillation.

StylesBrowse by serve
DistillersProducer route
AdviceAsk before checkout
Browse styles

London Dry, or contemporary.

Gin region map
Gin: useful origins and range routes.
The distillers

Producer shortlist.

N
Australia · Queensland · since 2018 Nosferatu Distillery

A vintage caravan served as its mascot in the early days. Nosferatu Distillery opened in May 2018 — originally Melbourne, now Bowen Hills in Brisbane — making gin and vodka, with naming and label aesthetic drawn from the 1922 silent-film adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Shop producer
E
Scotland · Fife · since 2012 Eden Mill

Distilling returned to Guardbridge in Fife in 2014 — a site that had hosted the Haig family's Seggie Distillery from 1810 until the late nineteenth century. Eden Mill makes gin, liqueurs and single malt Scotch beside the Eden Estuary, a short drive from St Andrews.

Shop producer
A
Australia · Victoria · since 2015 Antipodes

Australia's first certified-organic, carbon-neutral gin and vodka, with Kakadu plum, lemon myrtle, strawberry gum, aniseed myrtle and Tasmanian pepperberry sitting alongside juniper-led base botanicals. Antipodes Gin Co. was set up in 2015 by three childhood friends — Rory Gration, Shane Reid and Brad Parson — who grew up around the citrus farms of the Sunraysia region. Distilled in Melbourne.

Shop producer
C
France · Normandy · since 1960 Christian Drouin

A 17th-century Normandy farmhouse already planted with cider apples — that is the Pays d'Auge property Christian Drouin Sr. bought in 1960, beginning a long programme of distilling Calvados year after year for the cellar with distiller Pierre Pivet. Sales and distribution did not begin until 1979. Christian Drouin Jr. built the commercial side; the third generation, Guillaume Drouin, joined in 2004 as oenologist and now runs the house.

Shop producer
G
France · Burgundy · since 1874 Gabriel Boudier

On Boulevard Strasbourg in Dijon since 1874. Maison Gabriel Boudier was the Fontobonne distillery first; Gabriel Boudier took over and renamed the house in 1909, the Battault family bought it in 1936 and kept the name, and the Piffaut family acquired it in 2022 as the third family at the helm.

Shop producer
A
Mauritius · Indian Ocean Arcane

Lighter, French-influenced Indian Ocean rum rather than the heavier English-style Caribbean tradition. Arcane is a Mauritian brand whose Arrange and aged expressions are produced at Gray's distillery on Mauritius. The range covers Mauritian rum aged in former whisky casks (Beach House, Turquoise Bay) and longer-aged Solera-style expressions (Extraroma).

Shop producer
K
Japan · Kagoshima · since 1883 Komasa Jyozo

On the southern Japanese island of Kyushu — Komasa Jyozo is a Kagoshima distillery, traditionally a shochu producer that has expanded into craft gin and liqueurs. The Komasa Gin range uses local ingredients including Sakurajima komikan mandarin and hojicha (roasted green tea). Founded 1883.

Shop producer
B
United States · Pennsylvania · since 2006 Bluecoat

Domestic juniper plus a citrus-forward botanical mix, distilled in copper pot stills. Bluecoat is an American dry gin produced by Philadelphia Distilling, founded in Philadelphia in 2005.

Shop producer
How to shop gin

Three moves.

01

Juniper still anchors the category

Under EU regs, gin must taste of juniper. Pink-flavoured sugar bombs don't qualify. We stock the real category.

02

Distillery character beats brand recognition

Single-distillery gins (Nosferatu, Taylor & Smith) outperform mass-market labels for the cocktail and the table.

03

Match the gin to the serve

Citrus-forward (Nosferatu, Eden Mill) for Martinis; botanical-forward (Antipodes, Komasa Jyozo) for sipping; coastal (Taylor & Smith) for G&Ts with citrus.

Caravan's pours

If you're writing onecocktail list this season.

Six bottles that cover the range — gateway, sipper, cellar, presentation piece. Real prices, real producers.

Local

Taylor & Smith

Hobart Dry Gin

Tasmanian-distilled with native pepperberry and sea-fennel. Coastal, savoury, distinct.

$95View
Maeve's pick

Komasa Jyozo

Kozue Gin

Kagoshima distillery. Yuzu, sansho, sakura, green tea, sencha, gyokuro — six Japanese botanicals. Restraint.

$125View