Stories, recipes and curiosities about the colour-changing gin: from the magic of the Butterfly Pea to Rimini's best-loved cocktails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Balena Pink Gin wins the Bronze Medal at the IWSC 2026 with 89\/100 in the Contemporary Gin category: the Romagna gin from San Giuliano a Mare (Rimini) awarded in its very first year. <\/p><\/div>\n\n
The Italian craft gin movement is undergoing a revolution. Over the past ten years, small independent distilleries have transformed the landscape of Italian spirits: it is from this scene that Balena Pink Gin of Rimini was born \u2014 the gin that changes colour. <\/p><\/div>\n\n
The Gin & Tonic is the world's best-loved cocktail, but with Balena Pink Gin it becomes a one-of-a-kind visual experience. Pour the blue gin, add the tonic, and within seconds the liquid turns a luminous pink. It's the magic of the Butterfly Pea. <\/p><\/div>\n\n
Have you seen a blue gin that suddenly turns pink on contact with tonic? It's not a bartender's trick. It's pure natural chemistry, and behind it lies a flower: the Butterfly Pea, one of the 9 botanicals in Balena Pink Gin of Rimini. <\/p><\/div>\n\n
Discover the Negroni Whale recipe: Balena Pink Gin's signature cocktail, a tribute to the 1943 sperm whale at San Giuliano a Mare, Rimini. <\/p><\/div>\n\n
On 4 April 1943, a 12-metre sperm whale visited Barafonda beach at San Giuliano a Mare, Rimini. The history, the legends and the anecdotes of an event forever etched into the memory of the village. <\/p><\/div>\n\n
Elio Morri's whale-shaped fountain-sculpture, unveiled in 1969 in Piazza della Balena at Barafonda, tells the story of the 1943 sperm whale in Rimini. History, rumours and tales of the village. <\/p><\/div>\n\n
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