Bertagnolli
Gin 1870 Premium Dry
- Mezzocorona
Classic dry
No botanical list to lean on, so read it as its name does: Bertagnolli 1870 is a dry style, juniper first, pine-sharp and resinous, with citrus peel behind it and a clean peppery finish. Little sweetness, no heavy spice. Dry and straight-backed rather than floral.
Serve
1:2 — enough quinine bite to meet a dry gin without padding it
Garnish — Lemon peel
Cocktails
Martini
Cold, dry and close to neat spirit — the vermouth adds weight and a faint bitterness rather than much flavour of its own. The gin has nowhere to hide: juniper needs backbone here, and any softness in the botanicals shows up whole. Lemon oil sharpens the first sip and keeps it from going flat.
A dry gin like the 1870 has nowhere to hide at 5:1, and its juniper-forward, low-sugar build is exactly what a Martini needs to stay cold and sharp.
Negroni
Bitter first, then sweet: Campari's rind-and-root edge held up by the vermouth's dark, herbal sugar. The gin has to push through both, so juniper and a firm backbone read clearly where softer florals get buried. Stirred over ice, it drinks cold and slow, the orange peel lifting the bitterness.
Its pine-resin juniper and dry, low-sugar build cut straight through Campari's rind bitterness and the vermouth's caramel, and the peppery finish lands where the orange peel does.
Gin & Tonic
Long, dry and bitter-edged, the tonic's quinine pulling against the gin's botanicals while the lime wedge sharpens both. Refreshing rather than contemplative. The gin has to hold its shape against all that dilution: juniper and citrus carry through, where delicate florals tend to vanish.
The citrus peel sitting behind the juniper is what survives the dilution, and the clean peppery finish meets quinine without any sweetness getting in the way.
