Top-Notch Local Tipples in Trying Times: Three Tasmanian Companies Making Must-Sip Drinks in 2020 – Concrete Playground

Due to its location, Tasmania stands apart from the bulk of Australia. It’s an island at the bottom of the continent, so of course it’s separate from the rest of the country. But, for much of 2020, the Apple Isle has been shut off from the nation in another way — with Tassie enacting strict border restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, just as many other states on the mainland did as well.

Thankfully, while most Aussies couldn’t head to the country’s southern-most state for much of this year without seeking permission and then going into quarantine, border restrictions don’t have any dominion over our tastebuds. You mightn’t have been able to spend time in Tassie for big stretches of 2020, but drinking…