02-10-2016
Left to right, chef Carlo Cracco, the bartender at Carlo e Camilla in Segheria Filippo Sisti, and Jake Burger, master blender at Portobello Road Gin, in a picture taken early in September. The distillery with headquarters at number 171 in the popular road in London convinced the chef from Vicenza to select a series of botanicals to produce a signature London Dry Gin, a limited edition of only 1,000 bottles. We’ll taste it soon
As of the end of October, we’ll be able to taste in Italy a gin signed by chef Carlo Cracco and Filippo Sisti, the cocktail-maker at Carlo e Camilla in Segheria. A limited edition of one thousand bottles for a London Dry Gin distilled by English firm Portobello Road, who were struck some time ago by a visit to the second restaurant in Milan of the chef from Vicenza. They were so thrilled by the successful combination of cuisine and creative cocktails that soon after that master distiller Jake Burger asked Cracco to follow another famous chef, Brett Graham, 2 Michelin stars at the Ledbury in Notting Hill, London, in the Local Heroes project: the chosen chef is basically asked to select a series of botanicals – vegetable extracts – to be added to the basic aromas of the London Dry Gin, that is to say juniper berries, coriander, angelica and iris.
The label of the Portobello Dry Gin, Local Heroes limited edition, personalised by Carlo e Camilla in Segheria, with an Italian flag too
Carlo Cracco testing the botanicals in London, last September 7th
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