Features
Name:
Italian Occitan London Dry Gin 70cl
Cellar
Pietro Bordiga was a passionate herbalist, a profound connoisseur above all of Alpine botanicals and oriental spices that were much sought after at the time. In the context of the Risorgimento, thanks above all to his botanical knowledge, Pietro Bordiga invented a recipe for Vermouth di Torino (created in its modern version in Turin a few decades earlier), which was immediately greatly appreciated in the city.
He then decided to start his own business as a Vermouth producer and opened his distillery in Cuneo. Over the years, the company developed thanks to the genuineness and quality of its products and became a point of reference not only for Vermouths, but also for liqueurs and spirits, especially alpine ones, but not only: at the beginning of the 20th century, a juniper distillate was produced in Bordiga's stills that is still the envy of the world's best-known gins. Characteristics that remain to this day: good Piedmontese wine, alpine herbs still hand-picked by the mountain folk, the finest spices, the purest grain alcohol, the finest sugar and the water of our Alps form the basis with which our master distillers, with their ancestral and jealously guarded wisdom, produce the renowned Bordiga products that are today appreciated all over the world.
Description
Occitan is the simplest expression of classic Bordiga distillates. Natural gin 100% with juniper berries hand-picked in the Alps of the Alpine Valleys of Piedmont
where Occitan is still spoken, born from the historic recipe 'dry juniper liqueur'. A unique environment makes the botanicals particularly rich in essential oils and flavours.
Organoleptic characteristics:
Transparent and crystal-clear colour. Characteristic and intense bouquet of spices accompanied by floral and citrus aromas.
Round and balanced taste, fresh and persistent in the finish.
Storage time:
over 10 years
Vinification
distilled in copper stills over a wood fire
Acknowledgements
2017 Craft Gin Club London gold medal