Description

Gin Agricolo is the brainchild of the intrepid vignaiolo Franco Cavallero, the fruit of his dream to produce a purely local Gin, where he controls the entire production chain, using only the freshest ingredients selected and grown by him at “kilometer zero”.
Already owner of the Sant’Agata winery, in 2011 he opened his own bar in Asti, “Il Cicchetto” reflecting his passion for fine cocktails, and especially for gin — the bar stocks about a hundred different gins in addition to his own!
To supply the botanicals, Cavallero cultivates thirty-five different plants on four hectares of land dedicated to flavoring his gins, a sort of “laboratory garden”, where the territory itself is a fundamental variable, the altitude (very important for concentration of flavor and aroma), the exposure and the soil become the focus of his research.
Italy boasts a long tradition of juniper distillates–the oldest “Italian gins” from Piedmont and Trentino are mentioned in late 19th-century liquor manuals by Antonio Rossi and Luigi Sala. It should come as no surprise considering that this evergreen shrub is grown all over the country, from the Alps to Sardinia, and Italian juniper is favored by the finest distilleries in Britain, America, and Spain. But in Italy the world of Gin is still unexplored and underestimated by many. Franco Cavallero aims to change that by crafting a purely Piedmontese Gin, with unmistakably local flavor!