Distilleria Gualco (Italy)

Piedmont

Grappa of Dolcetto and Barbera, Cinchona Calisaya

Grappa

Score: ✧✧✧✧

This grappa shows a deep amber yellow color, limpid and crystalline. The nose denotes intense, clean and pleasing aromas of cinchona, chocolate, dried fig and honey, with almost imperceptible alcohol pungency. In the mouth has intense flavors, with perceptible alcohol pungency that tends to dissolve rapidly, good correspondence to the nose, pleasing bitter hint and roundness. The finish is persistent with flavors of cinchona. This grappa is distilled with a discontinuous bainmarie alembic still. Produced with the infusion of cinchona calisaya for some months.

Alcohol: 42%

16 °C
(60 °F)

Issue 54, Summer 2007

Distilleria Gualco (Italy)

Piedmont

Pomace of Dolcetto of Ovada

Grappa

Score: ✧✧✧✧

This grappa is colorless, limpid and crystalline. The nose denotes intense, clean and pleasing aromas of black cherry, plum, raspberry and violet, with almost imperceptible alcohol pungency. In the mouth has intense flavors, with perceptible alcohol pungency which tends to dissolve rapidly, good correspondence to the nose, balanced sweetness, pleasing roundness. The finish is persistent with flavors of plum and raspberry. This grappa is distilled with a discontinuous bainmarie alembic still.

Alcohol: 42%

13 °C
(55 °F)

Issue 54, Summer 2007

Grappa Rubinia 1998

Distilleria Gualco (Italy)

Piedmont

Pomace of Dolcetto of Ovada and Barbera
Grappa	Score: ✧✧✧✧✧

This grappa shows a pale amber yellow color, limpid and crystalline. The nose denotes intense, clean, pleasing and refined aromas of dried fig, vanilla, prune, licorice, tobacco, hazelnut and honey with almost imperceptible alcohol pungency. In the mouth has intense flavors, perceptible alcohol pungency which tends to dissolve rapidly, balanced sweetness, pleasing roundness. The finish is persistent with flavors of prune, dried fig and honey. This grappa is distilled with a discontinuous bainmarie alembic still, it ages for 2 years in oak casks and for 3 years in acacia casks.

Alcohol: 42%	18 °C (64 °F)

Issue 45, October 2006

Distilleria Gualco (Italy)

Piedmont

Grappa of Dolcetto and Barbera, Bitter Almonds

Liquor

Score: ✧✧✧✧

Mandamara shows a pale amber yellow color, limpid and crystalline. The nose denotes intense, clean, pleasing and refined aromas of bitter almond, honey, vanilla and plum with almost imperceptible alcohol pungency. In the mouth is sweet with intense flavor and perceptible alcohol pungency which tends to dissolve rapidly, pleasing roundness. The finish is persistent with flavors of almond and honey. Mandamara is produced by the maceration of bitter almond in grappa of Dolcetto and Barbera.

Alcohol: 43%

15 °C
(59 °F)

Issue 44, September 2006

Distilleria Gualco

Piedmont (Italy)

Grappa Chinata 2006

Distilleria Gualco (Italy)

Grappa di Dolcetto d'Ovada 2006

Distilleria Gualco (Italy)

Grappa Rubinia 1998

Distilleria Gualco (Italy)

Mandamara

Distilleria Gualco (Italy)