Fourteen in total, almost all local: in addition to juniper and iris, fresh bergamot peel, dried lemon peel, rose berries, fresh lavender and rosemary flowers, angelica root, coriander, bitter almonds. All from specialized local and organic micro-producers.
Only organic Tuscan juniper and iris petals, well water, purified and treated by osmosis, certified spices and a still made specifically for this purpose: the first distillery in Italy exclusively dedicated to Gin is born in Florence. It is the Podere Castellare di Pelago, an Eco Resort nestled in the Florentine hills, the home base of PETER IN FLORENCE, the first London Dry Gin produced with almost exclusively Tuscan ingredients (with the exception of some botanicals not available in Italy), where the best raw materials for flavoring gin grow.
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 production (which grow around the farmhouse), do training on the product, guided tastings and experiment first-hand: with a microdistiller it will be possible to produce Gin live with the guest, with the possibility of using various botanicals.
PETER IN FLORENCE is, in tribute to Florence, the "gin of elegance": it focuses on the iris, icon of the city, of which not only the root is used, as per tradition, but also the petals, something much rarer, 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 total, almost all local: in addition to juniper and iris, fresh bergamot peel, dried lemon peel, rose berries, fresh lavender and rosemary flowers, angelica root, coriander, bitter almonds. All from specialized local micro-producers and organic. To which are added: cassia bark from China, grains of Paradise from West Africa and green cardamom seeds.
The water is fundamental, 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 such as DIAGEO.
Although about 47% of the quality juniper used in the gin industry comes from Tuscany - and in particular from the area between Florence and Arezzo - to date there is no place dedicated to gin. And there is no distillery in Italy exclusively dedicated to experimenting, refining and analyzing the qualitative aspects of the product: gin is often distilled in mixed production sites, or overseas, albeit with Italian botanicals.
For the production of PETER IN FLORENCE, however, a special still was designed, made exclusively by Green Engineering. It is a smaller version of the historic Carterhead still used to produce some of the best gins in the world. The design maintains the original one from 1831, but the technological characteristics make it cutting-edge, unique in Italy, allowing all the fundamental parameters of distillation to be controlled with a very high degree of precision, such as temperatures, density and volumes, guaranteeing high quality. It is also the only still in Italy that uses steam infusion, allowing a more delicate and natural extraction of essential oils and aromas.
The recipe, created by Stefano Cicalese, involves distillation processes that expertly combine liquid infusion and steam infusion. The “vapour infusion” was introduced by Thomas Dakin using a Carterhead still, the design of which has been reinterpreted for PETER IN FLORENCE using the best available technologies, such as numerical fluid dynamics, but maintaining the design that has distinguished it for almost 200 years.
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