BORDIGA PIEDMONT, ITALY
The Bordiga distillery was founded in 1888 by Pietro Bordiga, a passionate bartender & herbalist, who was living in the northern Italian city of Torino (Turin) at the foot of the Alps. Using his knowledge of local botanicals & the extraction of essential oils, Pietro created a recipe for vermouth that is still used today. Bordiga does all their own botanical infusions & each botanical is infused separately. This is an important marker of quality – each botanical benefits from being macerated in alcohol at different degrees and for different lengths of time – and changes depending on the characteristics of each year’s crop. Some herbs are infused fresh and some dry. The resulting infusions are kept in a cellar under the distillery which includes an impressive library of botanical infusions that are used in varying quantities throughout their range of products. They produce entirely traditional products that also fit squarely into the modern cocktail culture.
