CITADELLE GIN DE FRANCE 700ml

Citadelle is a gin made by directly igniting the copper stills Charentais, which is used by the same distillery to create Cognac. To him, they add pure spirit of French cereals and 19 herbs and aromatics: 1. French juniper 2. Iris root 3. French violet root 4. Moroccan coriander 5. Almonds 6. Spanish lemon peels 7. Mexican orange peels 8. Angelica from northern Germany 9. Indian cardamom 10. Indian nutmeg 11. Cassia trunk from Indochina 12. Cinnamon from Sri Lanka 13. Mediterranean fennel 14. Grain of paradise (a type of pepper also known as Guinea Pepper) 15. Cubeb pepper 16. Chinese licorice 17. Cumin 18. French anise 19. A sense of saltiness The legislation of the AOC in Cognac, which allows this spirit to be created only between November and March, has resulted in both stills and experienced distillers being virtually out of work almost 6 months a year. Alexander Gabriel, however, owner of the Cognac Ferrand company, petitioned Cognac’s council to be allowed to use the same stills to create a gin in the months when he could not use them to make cognac. When his request was granted, he began to dig deep into the history of French gins and discovered that in 1771 there were two producers, Carpeau and Stival, who made gin with juniper and exotic spices brought from the East in order to sell it in England, packing it in jars. Luckily for him, their distillery still existed and was located inside Fort Citadelle in Dunkirk, which was formerly used to protect the city. That’s how the name of gin came about.