OUR HISTORY
Son of Pietro and Maggiorina (owners of an agricultural business), a volcanic mind, full of thoughts and ideas, tough, revolutionary, with personality, a prisoner in Germany and Prussia in 1945, decorated by the President of the Republic with the medal of honor.
Wife, mother and special grandmother, daughetr of Vincenzo and Teresa Carozzo, artisans who owned a ‘shop’ specialised in carpentry, ironwork, electrics and much more.
Afre their wedding, Maria and Aldo moved to Canelli, where they bagan working as couriers delivering local products in a large area between Piedmont, Liguria and Lombardy.
After selling their business, they settled in Pianezzo area, where they dusted off their old passion for growing medicinal herbs. In those years Canelli was a rich area of vineyards where, more or less in every street, small businesses dedicated to the production of wines and sparkling wines existed together with large historic companies (Contratto, Riccadonna, Gancia, Coppo, Bosca, Robba Zoppa etc.), without forgetting those who – first of all Bocchino and Aliberti – produced spirits and liqueurs.
Aldo and Maria Cerutti began their activity of producing liqueurs and distilling herbs, with the name ‘ILAS’. In this context, some of the products , reproposed by Cerutti family, were born with the distribution company Punto Bere srl which owns the liqueur brand ‘Cerutti’s family liqueurs since 1959’ and also the brands of those products reproposed in recent years, such as Amaro del Centenario, Gin Gam 7.2, Aperilas Bitter, Aperilas spritz, Limonquore and our Vermouths of Turin.
In 2019, Tenuta la Bacca Agricultural Company of Gabriele Cerutti was founded in Canelli, aimed at cultivating juniper plants and other botanicals to re-propose local products at ‘km 0’ (that is to say without pesticides).
Today the production of our products has reached over twenty items that are able to cover all ranges, from aperitif to digestive, with excellent results in modern mixing, trying to use as many natural ingredients as possible, so to improve the quality of drinks that will be served in the healthiest way possible , enhancing these characteristics.
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