To those in the industry it is
a well known fact that the best juniper berries in the world come from Tuscany, just like the iris’ root which is also used to make gin.

When Mr. Patrick Hoffer, an English entrepreneur living in Florence, and
a gin enthusiast, found this out, he decided to open a gin distillery. Thus, in 2017, a new gin was born: Peter in Florence. The name is a tribute to Mr. Hoffer’s father Peter, also a gin enthusiast. The Podere Castellare di Pelago, owned by Mr. Patrizio Pandolfi, old time friend of Mr. Hoffer’s and partner in this venture, was chosen as the perfect place in which to build this exclusive distillery.
The farm is an eco-resort situated on the Florentine hills, where the best botanies for the aromatization of gin grow. Podere Castellare was built during the XII -XIII century, though Mr. Pandolfi’s parents bought it during the 1950s. Slowly, they transformed the 35 hectares in a successful farm, and, to this day, they grow some of the main gin ingredients, including juniper berries and iris. Subsequently, the farm became an
eco -resort and, in those same cellars in which once upon a time wine was produced, we now find the production
laboratory, often open to guided tours. Patrick Hoffer and Patrizio Pandolfi thus managed to bring a new life to the farm,
and to a tradition that was slowly disappearing.

To produce PETER IN FLORENCE, a special alembic was created, exclusively created by Green Engineering. This is a small version of the historic Carter head alembic which has produced some of the best gin in the world.
While it maintains the original design from 1831, the technological features
make it vanguard, completely unique in Italy, and this features enable the machine to control all the basic distillation parakeets such as temperature, density, and volume, with a very high degree of precision, guaranteeing a high quality. It is also the only alembic in Italy that uses steam infusion, allowing for a more delicate and natural extraction of essential oils and aromas.

PETER IN FLORENCE is the first specialized micro distillery in Italy. With a laboratory dedicated to give a full 360-degree experience of gin, the herbsare grown, picked by hand and used in the production of small batches of 314 bottles at a time.