Features
Name:
Pink Gin Small Batch Distilled
Terrain:
On the rocky slopes, thanks to the influence of the nearby Mediterranean Sea, these plants are a concentrate of essential oils. Harvested strictly by hand by mountain people along the alpine pastures, without pesticides, fertilisers or fungicides, they are dried at high altitude and then brought to the Bordiga headquarters.
Refinement:
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
One of the few Italian gins to be produced in small batches, Gin Rosa is the fabulous meeting of the rough juniper berries of the Alps (Cuneo) that meet the sweetness of the queen of flowers, with the delicate red rose buds from which a luminous and inviting antique pink liquid originates. Produced by a family dedicated to distilled spirits and liqueurs for 130 years, through the skilful blending of Alpine juniper berries distilled together with mountain herbs, giving it magical delicate notes.
When tasting each Bordiga distillate, one can perceive the attention and care we give to each step of production.
Organoleptic characteristics:
Old pink in colour, it presents on the nose delicate aromas of juniper blended with floral sensations of rosewater and dog rose, together with sweet sensations of wisteria and citrus fruits, pink grapefruit.
On the palate the taste is powerful, fresh and round, with a dry, clean finish, rich in elegant floral returns.
Storage time:
over 10 years
Vinification
use of pure alcohol as the extraction medium for the aromatic part. The alcohol is obtained exclusively from cereals and has a higher alcohol content than 96%, which is then adjusted by adding pure water, the botanicals are processed and put in contact with alcohol of different strengths, depending on the type of extraction required. The infusion times also vary: for distillates, they are around 5 to 6 days. Bordiga uses two stills. Bordiga's oldest still, dating back to the 1700s, is a French-style copper bain-marie still fired by wood fire.
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