Is getting a good cocktail in a can too much to ask?

Jeremy Spencer, best known as co-founder of The West Winds gin, and two mates have taken matters into their own hands.

Nov 25, 2020, updated May 15, 2025

Australia’s craft cocktail movement has become well-entrenched in the years since Jez Spencer helped found one of our earliest gin distilleries – The West Winds. But it’s still near on impossible to get a “good bloody drink” if you’re in a hotel room or on an aeroplane.

Seeing this gap in the market, Jez and his business partners have decided to package up some distinctly Australian numbers, such as a Never Never Negroni and an Archie Rose Espresso Martini, as part of their Curatif line of canned cocktails.

 

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