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Many companies in these countries make gin minis and the minis they put out
are little jewels of proof of just how serious they take their production.
What makes the newer gin
mini a great collectible?
Attention to detail. While in
the US and Canada a
good number of minis are
plastic (or even if glass
have plastic tops),
overseas the minis are
often glass and exact
replicas of their larger
bottles. Minis in other
countries almost always
come in glass with metal tops and really beautiful labels. Many of these glass
examples are not simply plain bottles. They are fancy shapes and some are
even released in metal or ceramic materials.
You may think
it’s just the big
companies
that are all in
on the gin
mini
explosion.
You would be
wrong. The
independent
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