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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: Joining me in the studio right now.

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Speaker 1: We're all pretty excited in here because there is a

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Speaker 1: brand new distillery, a Gin distillery that is set to

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Speaker 1: open tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: And joining me in.

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Speaker 1: The studio is Dave Willing, who is the owner.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to.

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Speaker 3: You, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 2: How are you very well now? Dave? You and I

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Speaker 2: have known each other for years.

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Speaker 3: Many many.

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Speaker 2: I thinking about twenty years. That's exactly right, about twenty years.

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Speaker 1: And mate, for as long as I've known you, you've

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Speaker 1: been a high ranking public servant. And then I found

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Speaker 1: out probably six months ago, maybe a bit longer, that

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Speaker 1: you were going to be opening a Gin distillery. And

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Speaker 1: then you sent me a message a few days ago

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Speaker 1: and said it's happening yeap. What made you make the

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Speaker 1: massive life change?

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Speaker 3: I think the timing was right.

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Speaker 4: But back in twenty seventeen, I've always had a love

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Speaker 4: of spirits, yep. And there's a bit of a mad

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Speaker 4: scientist in me as well that has always been fascinated

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Speaker 4: with the distillation process to make spirits. So back in

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Speaker 4: twenty seventeen I went down to Tazzy and I did

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Speaker 4: a course with the Tasmanium Whiskey Academy I also love whiskey,

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Speaker 4: so I studied to make whiskey and then graduated with

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Speaker 4: a general Certificate in Distilling from the Institute of Bruis

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Speaker 4: and Distillers, which is actually UK based, and then from

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Speaker 4: then on it just started to grow. So the business

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Speaker 4: plan was written and it sort of sat on the

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Speaker 4: shelf and other work priorities in the public sector sort

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Speaker 4: of took priorities for a while and the.

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Speaker 3: EBB and flow.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, June last year, timing was right. It was time

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Speaker 4: to take that massive sideways step public sector into a

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Speaker 4: very tactile business like distilling.

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Speaker 1: Which I think it's fantastic, Like you know, as somebody

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Speaker 1: who's known you for a long time, I think it's

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Speaker 1: really wonderful that you've made that change and that you're

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Speaker 1: doing something so exciting and so exciting for the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: Where is this distillery opening yep.

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Speaker 4: So we're opening from We'll be doing tastings from tomorrow

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Speaker 4: midday till six pm.

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Speaker 3: Friday, Saturday Sundays.

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Speaker 4: We're located at thirty one Benison Road in Winnelly, which

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Speaker 4: is if anyone knows the indoor beach volleyball court, it's

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Speaker 4: right next door.

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Speaker 2: What is Darwin? Have we become like a gin capital?

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 1: Because it seems to be a very popular drink and

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Speaker 1: something that you know that people seem to really enjoy

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Speaker 1: here in the territory.

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Speaker 3: I do really enjoy it.

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Speaker 4: Gin is very popular across the country now there are

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Speaker 4: distilleries popping up all over the country. There's some great

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Speaker 4: things happening with local botanicals, Australian botanicals, Australian flavors. We're

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Speaker 4: not quite so tied down with regulations as the European

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Speaker 4: manufacturers are. Yeah, yep, So we can do a lot

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Speaker 4: more experimentation when we make our spirits.

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Speaker 3: So it's pretty exciting. Actually, well, we're not just going

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Speaker 3: to be doing gin.

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Speaker 4: Going to be doing some other stuff as well, So

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Speaker 4: as a distillery, we're not going to lock ourselves into

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Speaker 4: one product.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 4: We've got initially this this first release is gin.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 4: We've got a second release which is another gin, another

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Speaker 4: style of gin, coming out in may even be a

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Speaker 2: Are you hoping to export this like worldwide? What are

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Speaker 2: you hoping to do it?

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Speaker 4: That'd be awesome, but let's go baby steps first, getting

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Speaker 4: it to the East Coast to be nice at the moment,

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Speaker 4: as we know, is that killer for us up here.

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Speaker 3: So we've got to work through all that.

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Speaker 4: But at the moment, we just wanted to create something

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Speaker 4: that locals could be proud of, that locals can enjoy,

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Speaker 4: tourists can enjoy, people can use by a present for

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Speaker 4: their family, whatever. But we will be making some vodka

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Speaker 4: later in the year as well, and I'm also going

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Speaker 4: to very keen to lay down some whiskey and some

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Speaker 4: rum barrels for a couple of years. That's a couple

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Speaker 4: of years off before release.

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what. And we always drink responsibly,

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Speaker 2: there is no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: But Maddie Hepworth and Ronnie my producer, well, they are

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Speaker 1: in the studio right now because when I said that

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Speaker 1: you were coming in, they were both incredibly excited. Now

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Speaker 1: they're wondering if you need any ambassadors. They don't have

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Speaker 1: very good song. They're like, we're happy to help.

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Speaker 5: Dave.

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Speaker 6: Well, I thought we could garnish up some kind of

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Speaker 6: deal this morning here where for all of my one

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Speaker 6: hundred and seventeen Instagram followers that you know, for every

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Speaker 6: bottle that they buyd I could use code map twenty

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Speaker 6: for an extra twenty percent off or something.

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Speaker 5: I've actually got one hundred and thirty two Insta followers.

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Speaker 4: So.

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Speaker 2: Funny.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, we are incredibly excited to have a little taste.

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Speaker 1: And as I said, we always drink responsibly, there's no

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Speaker 1: doubt about that.

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Speaker 2: But this is the first batch day, isn't it is?

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Speaker 4: This is BAT zero one, and this is one of

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Speaker 4: the first bottles, so I think so far I've only

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Speaker 4: sold a.

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Speaker 3: Couple of bottles. Yeah, this is probably about the fourth

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Speaker 3: bottle of double number one. Yeah, that one.

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Speaker 4: And there's three hundred and ten bottles in the first batch,

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Speaker 4: so wonderful.

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Speaker 3: These will go pretty quick, we think, Well, I tell

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Speaker 3: you what.

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Speaker 2: Good on you. I just think it's amazing. We are

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Speaker 2: going to have a little taste.

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Speaker 1: I feel as though we need to stay on ere

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Speaker 1: while we do that. Ronnie and Maddie are looking like

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Speaker 1: it's weekend time already. They're looking like I really.

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Speaker 5: Like is the fact that you're opening and you pretty

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Speaker 5: much as I like to call it a cellar door

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Speaker 5: from like you're saying from midday to six and across

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Speaker 5: the weekend, which I think is fantastic and it gives

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Speaker 5: us I suppose not only territories, but a lot of

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Speaker 5: round and visit you. But you've also got the foresight

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Speaker 5: to say that you're going to be dealing with blocking

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Speaker 5: another gin soon vodka, And like yourself, I'm very excited

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Speaker 5: about the whiskey.

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Speaker 3: I am to. We have to be patient for the whiskey.

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Speaker 3: The whiskey has to.

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Speaker 4: Has to mature in the barrel, so minimum two years

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Speaker 4: in Australia to even be able to call it whiskey.

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Speaker 4: People do sell it before that and they have to

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Speaker 4: call it new make right. That's what it's actually going

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Speaker 4: to be whiskey one day.

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Speaker 1: But well, Mattie, have you got any questions for Dave,

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Speaker 1: because I know that you thoroughly enjoy your jeans.

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Speaker 6: Yes, So this is a London dry is it done?

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Speaker 3: This is a London dry style.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Because we're making it in Darwin, we're calling it

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Speaker 4: Darlin dry gin and it has a little little bit

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Speaker 4: of an Australian a twist in there that differentiates it.

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Speaker 3: From the standard London dry gin. Now this is straight

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Speaker 3: at the moment, a little.

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Speaker 1: In the.

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Speaker 2: Enjoying the smell. The smell is delicious.

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Speaker 6: I was going to ask it as a distiller, what

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Speaker 6: would you recommend with this, because I know there's that

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Speaker 6: that wall between tonic and soda.

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Speaker 3: There is a preference. My preference is actually on the rocks.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, isn't it?

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Speaker 3: It is very smooth?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my preference for a tonic. And we've tried several

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Speaker 4: different brands of tonic, and different tonics will match with

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Speaker 4: different gins, so don't just necessarily say I always buy

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Speaker 4: the Shweps or the Cappie or whatever. We've matched it

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Speaker 4: with fever Tree Mediterranean Tonic is we think the best

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Speaker 4: tonic to mix it with. And thankfully fever Tree is

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Speaker 4: available and Willie's so it's pretty easily accessible too.

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 1: It tastes absolutely lovely, Dave, We are going to have

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Speaker 1: to wrap up, mate. Where can people contact you or

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Speaker 1: where can people go if they're keen to find out more?

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Speaker 4: Sure jump on our Facebook page. We're also on Insta,

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Speaker 4: so it's just Willing Distillery. You'll find us there on

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Speaker 4: Facebook and if you google us now, actually on Google,

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Speaker 4: there's a Google Google Business set up as well, which

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Speaker 4: has our business ours and address and everything on there,

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Speaker 4: and there's a landline number on that.

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Speaker 1: On you, well, thank you so much for coming in

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Speaker 1: this morning, and thanks for allowing us all to have

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Speaker 1: a taste of well this this first bottle of gin.

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Speaker 2: It's lovely and I love seeing territorians do well.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, thank you,