Fourteen in all those that make it up, almost all local: in addition to juniper and iris, fresh bergamot peel, dried lemon, rose berries, fresh lavender and rosemary flowers, angelica root, coriander, bitter almonds. All coming from specialized local micro-producers and organic.
Only juniper and Tuscan iris petals from organic farming, well water, purified and treated by osmosis, certified spices and an alembic made ad hoc: the first distillery in Italy exclusively dedicated to Gin is born in Florence. It is Podere Castellare di Pelago, Eco Resort nestled on the Florentine hills, the home base of PETER IN FLORENCE, the first London Dry Gin produced with almost exclusively Tuscan ingredients (except for some botanicals not available in Italy), where the best raw materials grow for the flavoring of gin.
Podere Castellare di Pelago thus becomes the first specialized micro-distillery in Italy, but also a laboratory dedicated to gin at 360 degrees, where it will be possible to see and pick the herbs used in the production (which grow around the cottage), to train on the product , guided tastings and first-hand experimentation: with a microdistiller it will be possible to produce Gin directly with the guest, with the possibility of using various botanicals.
PETER IN FLORENCE is, as a tribute to Florence, the "gin of elegance": it focuses on the iris, an icon of the city, of which not only the root is used, as per tradition, but also the petals, something much more rare, which emphasizes the floral part of the distillate. It is a classic gin, in compliance with the rules of London Dry Gin, but innovative, also for the use of various botanicals.
Fourteen in all those that make it up, almost all local: in addition to juniper and iris, fresh bergamot peel, dried lemon, rose berries, fresh lavender and rosemary flowers, angelica root , coriander, bitter almonds. All coming from specialized local micro-producers and organic. To which are added: bark
cassia from China, grains of Paradise from West Africa and green cardamom seeds.
Fundamental is the water, which is collected from the well, analyzed in the laboratory and treated with reverse osmosis, reaching the highest international quality standards required by the beverage industry as DIAGEO.
Although approximately 47% of the quality juniper used in the gin industry comes from Tuscany - and in particular from the area between Florence and Arezzo - there is currently no place dedicated to gin. And there is no exclusively dedicated distillery in Italy, where to experiment, refine and analyze the qualitative aspects of the product: gin is often distilled in places of mixed production, or overseas, albeit with Italian botanicals.
For the production of PETER IN FLORENCE, on the other hand, a special alembic was created, made exclusively by Green Engineering. It is a reduced version of the historic Carterhead still used for the production of some of the best gins in the world. The design maintains the original one of 1831, but the technological features make it avant-garde, unique in Italy, allowing you to control with a very high degree of precision all the fundamental parameters of distillation, such as temperatures, density and volumes, guaranteeing a high level of quality. It is also the only still in Italy that uses steam infusion, allowing for a more delicate and natural extraction of essential oils and aromas.
The recipe, created by Stefano Cicalese, involves distillation processes that skilfully combine liquid infusion and steam infusion. The "vapor infusion" was introduced by Thomas Dakin using a Carterhead still, whose project was reinterpreted for PETER IN FLORENCE using the best technologies available, such as numerical fluid dynamics, but maintaining the design that has distinguished it for almost 200 years.
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