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    May 04, 2020 4 minutes
    ELISABETH KING

    SOMEONE gave me a bottle of butterscotch schnapps for Christmas. To be honest, it took me a couple of months to open it as I don’t have a sweet tooth. A friend spotted the Wildbrumby label in my drinks collection and said – “You know, this is really good”. How right he was. The distillery in the Snowy Mountains has become a standard-bearer for this sweeter take on hard liquor, which is especially popular in the US, Australia and the Netherlands according to data.

    Sweet-flavoured schnapps such as peach became a bit of a craze in the US and Australia in the mid-1980s. In a single year from

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