Our Story and process
The history of the creation of Gozio Amaretto, produced by the Gozio family the founders of Distillerie Franciacorta, is not a thing of the past: the secret recipe and above all the philosophy of its “creators” are still the base of the Gozio Amaretto production today, in a perfect matching of tradition and advanced technology.
Bitter almonds from 4 continents are grinded, through an Hydrodistillation, decantation and a percolation process the precious Essential Oil is obtained.
100 kgs of bitter almonds are needed to get only 1 liter of essential oil.
The essential oil can be extracted from different type of fruits: we only use the best quality bitter almonds. Most of other producers use “surrogate” almonds such as apricot and peach kernels seeds. The final gentle extraction and filtering are aimed to protect intensity and fragrance of the final product.
Gozio Amaretto has got on December 2013 from CERTIQUALITY (*) the official certificate testifying the use in the production of only natural flavourings that contain essential oil of bitter almond.
(*) CERTIQUALITY is a Certification Body accredited to provide enterprises with certification services covering Quality, Environmental and Safety Management Systems, as well as Product Certification. Certiquality enjoys a leading standing among the certification Bodies, with over 9.000 certified enterprises.
State of the art production involves the extraction of flavours from the raw materials (seeds, spices) strictly selected and quality checked, the use of the secret formula and the intimate knowledge of all the process. All the ingredients have to be balanced and brought “in harmony” with each other.
