Covalle
Tomato-Water Gin

Covalle Tomato-Water Gin is a "garden-forward" gin developed by William Schragis and the Project Optimist team. They spent 2024 chasing an R&D dream: how to bottle the scent and experience of fresh, vine-ripened tomatoes in spirit form. 

It started with a lifelong love of tomato season. But translating that fresh, green aroma into a stable spirit turned out to be a challenge. Alcohol "cooks" tomatoes - so early tests mostly tasted like tomato-sauce gin. Not great. 

The breakthrough came in technique. Covalle is made by pulverizing fresh tomato leaves and stems into an apple-cucumber pulp. That fragrant pulp is clarified and filtered using a centrifuge (among other things), and then blended back into a London dry base (most notable influence from 3 botanical accords: 

1.Juniper, angelica, coriander
2.Grapefruit, Lemon oil. cardamom
3.Orange, wildflower honey, Cinnamon, Anise

In the end, this creates a compound gin that is fresh, vibrant, and incredibly easy to mix with. 

It is a spirit that evokes the bright, green, herbaceous character of a tomato plant at its peak. Intriguing and easy to love, Covalle brings something entirely new to the gin shelf.