5L Bottle of Portofino Dry Gin Hand Painted by Giulia Tassi

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Ended:June 30th 2023, 11:00am EDT

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The Prize

This auction is for a special edition of Portofino Dry Gin, created to mark the Ocean Month, entirely hand painted by the artist Giulia Tassi, who has created a work dedicated to the theme of the preservation of the seas and oceans.

This five-liter bottle of Portofino Dry Gin is an artisan gin born resulting from the passion of its founders for the suggestive village of Portofino.

Produced in an ancient Italian distillery, Portofino Dry Gin is made up of 21 different botanicals, carefully selected for their aromatic properties: lemon, juniper, lavender, rosemary, marjoram, sage, iris and rose.

Since 2023, Portofino Dry Gin has been linked to One Ocean Foundation to support its important projects related to the protection of marine ecosystems.

Giulia Tassi is an illustrator who grew up in Valtellina, surrounded by greenery of the mountains that can often be seen in her drawings. She takes inspiration from nature, especially the Alps. Her works are characterized by vibrant colors and textures. She loves warm yellow with a hint of magenta, coral red, shocking pink, acid green, turquoise, ultramarine blue and purple. She attended a three-year visual communication course at the SUPSI University in Lugano, before specializing in illustration and furthering her knowledge at the ISIA in Urbino. Since 2018 Giulia has been working as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator in the publishing, commercial and educational fields.

The bottle is entirely decorated using a brush with acrylic paint. It is a unique hand painted piece. The color is applied evenly, layer after layer, creating a contrast between the transparency of the glass and area covered by the paint.

“I live in a small village near Sondrio, in the Italian province furthest from the sea, for me the Alps are synonymous with home. Living with nature outside your door teaches you to have respect for the flora and fauna, to safeguard the territory and to be a keen observer of climate change. That's why I was happy to join the Portofino Dry Gin project in support of One Ocean Foundation. Environmentalism is always precious work and every ecosystem deserves to be protected. When I was decorating this bottle, I took inspiration some of the incredible underwater life forms of the Portofino Marine Protected Area.”

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The Cause

One Ocean Foundation, whose mission is to accelerate solutions related to ocean issues by inspiring international leaders, companies, institutions and individuals, promoting a sustainable blue economy and raising awareness on these issues, has launched an innovative reforestation project of Posidonia in the Mediterranean Sea.

The project plans to plant Posidonia oceanica with the aim of restoring the biodiversity of the Mediterranean seabed and re-establishing its ecological status. The project will make use of the scientific support of university experts and researchers and will be based on the use of innovative transplantation techniques with low environmental impact (coconut fiber mats).

Posidonia oceanica is a marine plant that grows only in the Mediterranean Sea and is strongly threatened by the consequences of human activities. It has a fundamental ecological importance as, in addition to forming extensive meadows that protect the coasts from erosion, it has the ability to sequester large quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere and store carbon in the sediments, helping to combat climate change. The P. oceanica meadows also represent a habitat rich in biodiversity, hosting up to 350 different species, including many considered to be at risk of extinction and highly threatened, which find refuge, a source of food and an area to grow and reproduce there.

Simultaneously with the planting activity at sea, One Ocean Foundation will activate actions on land to involve the local community through citizen science activities, with particular attention to schools and the new generations, to raise awareness of the importance of this species for the marine ecosystem of the Mediterranean Sea and, more generally, on the protection of the ocean.

Website

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Item #P99812

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