By now, it’s a well-known fact that whisky is pretty much made everywhere nowadays, from Mississippi to Tasmania to China to New Jersey to... well, you get the point. But every now and then I still encounter a whisky for the first time and think, they make whisky there? So finding out that there’s a craft spirits distillery making whisky in Florence, Italy was, for me at least, an eyebrow-raiser.

Florence is in the Chianti Classico region of Italy, where wine has been made for heaven knows how long, so it stands to reason there are some stills there as well. But I figured they must all be for brandy or grappa. As it turns out, Winestillery, the parent company of Florentis whiskies, is the only independent craft distillery in all of Florence, and it’s only been active since 2017.