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DERGANO GIN
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Milan is craftsmanship. Always has been.
Twelve botanicals, each distilled alone, each given the patience the craft demands. Then gold.
OUR GIN
DERGANO gin SILVER
The craft, undressed.
Gold Medalist | The Gin Guide Awards 2026 | Traditional Gin 🥇
No embellishment, no addition. Just the composition- and the silence that follows when everything is exactly right. The rich, rounded taste of Dergano Gin Silver makes it an ideal drink, whether as an aperitif before dinner or as a late-night cocktail.
Dergano Gin Silver is perfect with tonic water, as a base for cocktails or neat on the rocks.
DERGANO gin GOLD
The craft, concluded.
Silver Medalist | World Gin Awards 2026 | Classic Gin (Italy) 🥈🇮🇹
When every element has been perfected individually, they are brought together. And the only thing left to add is gold.
23-karat. Hand-applied. The conclusion, not the decoration.
"Juniper Soul, Milanese Body"
Dergano Gin is built on a hierarchy of flavors designed to provide a powerful juniper punch. Twelve botanicals. Nothing hidden, nothing accidental. This is what goes into Dergano Gin, and why.
THE FOUNDATION
Every gin is defined by its foundation. Ours is built on three:
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Juniper Berries: The protagonist. Provides the iconic piney, resinous, and crisp flavor.
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Angelica Root: The "Fixative." It binds the volatile aromas together and adds an earthy, musky depth.
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Coriander Seeds: The bridge. Adds a spicy, citrusy note that harmonizes the juniperto the other botanicals.
THE LIGHT
Three citrus botanicals, each chosen for a different quality of brightness:
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Bergamot: the elegance. Floral, exotic, the scent that lifts everything around it.
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Bitter Orange: the bite. A sharp, zesty edge that keeps the gin honest.
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Sweet Orange: the balance. Round, juicy, the warmth that softens the bitter without losing it.
THE COMPOSITION
The final six are where the craft becomes unmistakable. Each infused separately, each given its own time and its own terms. Together they form the silky, spiced finish that makes Dergano Gin as precise neat as it is in a cocktail:
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Rose Hip: Provides a delicate floral sweetness and a silky mouthfeel.
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Cardamom & Allspice: Warm, aromatic notes that fill the "middle" of the palate.
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Black Pepper, Cloves & Cinnamon: A warm aromatic embrace that polishes the spirit’s edge, replacing the harshness of the alcohol with a lingering, spicy glow and a seamless finish.
Distiller’s Note: "We don't hide the juniper; we dress it. The spices act as a velvet glove, smoothing out the sharp edges of the juniper to create a gin that is as exquisite neat as it is in a cocktail."
DISTILLERY
A name older than the city.
A craft that proves it.
The Place
Dergano existed before Milan became a metropolis. The oldest record of the name dates to 1186 - a small settlement, Celtic in origin, whose name means oak. Quiet. Rooted. Unhurried.
Milan grew around it. The neighbourhood absorbed the city's energy without losing its own character. Today it carries both: the precision of a city that built the modern world's finest things, and the patience of a place that was already old when the metropolis arrived.
The Process
Every gin begins somewhere. Ours begins with the base - premium Italian grain alcohol, chosen for its purity and neutrality. The canvas on which everything else is composed.
To that base we add three foundational botanicals: juniper, angelica root, coriander, distilled together to create the soul of the gin, before anything else is added.
Then the work begins in earnest. The remaining nine botanicals are each infused separately. Bitter orange and bergamot are not treated like rose hip. Cardamom is not treated like black pepper. Each botanical determines its own infusion - its strength, its duration, its moment. When each has given exactly what it has to give, and nothing more, it is added to the foundation.
The gin then rests. The aromas settle.
The composition completes itself.
No artificial flavours. No added sugars. Nothing that was not already there.
Then gold.
23-karat, hand-applied. Not decoration. The mark of a craft that has nothing left to prove.
GALLERY
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An exclusive guide that reinterprets the great classics with a contemporary twist. Each recipe is designed to enhance the botanical profile of Dergano Gin, transforming traditional mixing into a unique experience. Explore our signature cocktails and be inspired by the art of our master distillers for your own signature drinks.
Below you can find some examples of our cocktails.
Milano Oro 75
INGREDIENTS
30 ml Dergano Gin Gold
10 ml elderflower liquor
a dash of fresh lemon juice
Top up with Franciacorta
PREPARATIONS
Pour Dergano Gold, the liquor, and the lemon juice into a mixing glass filled with ice and stir gently (do not shake to preserve the gold).
Strain into a chilled flute.
Slowly pour the chilled Franciacorta.
Squeeze the essential oils from the lemon zest into the glass.
Garnish with a lemon twist.
Serve immediately.
Tramonto di Dergano
INGREDIENTS
50 ml Dergano Silver Gin
10 ml Fresh lemon juice
15 ml Fig and honey syrup (or 1 teaspoon fig jam)
2 sprigs fresh rosemary
Dry Prosecco topping
Garnish: a fresh fig and a sprig of rosemary
PREPARATION
Crush a sprig of rosemary with the fig syrup and lemon juice in a shaker. Add Dergano Silver Gin and fill with ice. Shake vigorously and double strain into a lowball glass with a single large ice cube. Finish with a shot of Prosecco and garnish with a fresh fig and a sprig of rosemary.
Golden Apple Sour
INGREDIENTS
50 ml Dergano Gin Gold
30 ml Fresh apple juice (preferably extracted or cloudy)
20 ml Fresh lemon juice
15 ml Maple syrup
1 egg white (or 3-4 drops of foaming agent)
DIRECTIONS
Pour all ingredients into a shaker without ice and dry shake to emulsify the egg white. Add ice and shake vigorously again to chill. Double strain into a rocks glass or a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a thin slice of dehydrated apple on the surface, allowing the golden highlights to float.
Black Tie
INGREDIENTS
50 ml Dergano Gin Silver
20 ml Fresh lemon juice
15 ml Blackberry juice
10 ml Sugar syrup
1 Egg white (for the foam)
1/4 teaspoon unsweetened dark cocoa powder
PREPARATION
Pour the lemon juice and cocoa powder into a shaker. Stir vigorously until the cocoa is completely dissolved.
Add Dergano Gin Silver, the blackberry juice, the sugar syrup, and the egg white. Shake dry (without ice) to emulsify the egg white and create a thick foam.
Add plenty of ice and shake vigorously to chill and extract all the aromas. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
Dergano Gin started on a kitchen counter.
During the Covid lockdowns, I bought a small home still - not with any commercial ambition, just with curiosity. I wanted to understand how distillation worked. I wanted to learn by doing. What I didn’t expect was to become obsessed with gin. Not gin as a mixer. Not gin as the backdrop to a tonic water. Gin as a spirit worth drinking on its own - the way you drink a good whisky, or a vodka you actually respect. I wanted something I could pour over ice and finish. slowly, without anything getting in the way of the liquid itself. I went through a lot of recipes. Some were good. Some were genuinely bad - I remember a version with cumin seeds that I would rather forget. But eventually I found the one. Twelve botanicals, built around a flavour architecture that I kept refining until it worked exactly the way I wanted - a gin that needed nothing added to it.
When I moved production to a professional distillery, the recipe was elevated further. Each botanical is now distilled individually, at controlled temperatures - a process that brings out the clarity and precision the liquid always had the potential for.
I thought about how to make Dergano stand out in a market crowded with beautiful bottles and elaborate stories. I remembered a sake I had encountered in Japan, years before - suspended gold flakes that turned every pour into a small ceremony. I thought: that’s the niche nobody has claimed properly in gin. The bottle is simple by design. The label is clean. I have no interest in competing on packaging. The gold flakes inside do the only visual work that matters - and they only appear when you pour.
This is still, at its heart, a gin made for my palate. I hope it becomes one made for yours too.
Noam Shaked
Founder, Dergano Gin