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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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