Bertagnolli
Gin 1870 Blueberry Dry
Specification
Bottle — 700 ml
Blueberry leads — dark, skin-tart rather than jammy — over a dry juniper spine that keeps it from turning into fruit cordial. Alpine-clean through the middle, with a faint sweet-earth note from the berries and a short peppery finish. At 40% it stays light-bodied and crisp.
Serve — suggested, not sourced
Tonic — Fever-Tree Indian Tonic Water, 1:2 — plain tonic lets the blueberry show without stacking fruit on fruit
Garnish — Lemon peel
- 50 ml
- gin
- 25 ml
- lemon
- 12.5 ml
- sugar
- 15 ml
- creme de mure
- blackberries
Shaken sour over crushed ice, blackberry liqueur drizzled through.
Why this gin — The blueberry in Bertagnolli's 1870 Dry already points at dark fruit, so it meets the crème de mûre halfway instead of fighting it.
Sources
Facts — www.diemmevini.com, retrieved 2026-07-31