But before talking about why the Italian guys decided to make a gold gin and why I had a crazy desire to try it, a little excursus about what gin is today. For some years now a real gin craze has returned, as in the time of the London of the ‘700 (ok, a little less). For over ten years gin has been the undisputed king of all spirits in terms of production. The watershed is perhaps 2006, when there was a real rebirth of what was the spirit until then mostly associated with the gin and tonics of British pubs and Martini Cocktails for sophisticated people. And since 2008 new European legislation has opened the doors of gin production here too, where juniper also grows in some backyards […]

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