This grappa shows an intense amber yellow color, limpid and crystalline.
The nose reveals good personality with intense, clean, pleasing and refined
aromas of smoked, leather, vanilla, tobacco, licorice, chocolate, coffee,
honey and hazelnut, with imperceptible alcohol pungency. The mouth is
intense with perceptible although not intrusive alcohol pungency which
tends to dissolve rapidly, good correspondence to the nose, pleasing
smoothness, balanced sweet hint, agreeable. The finish is very persistent
with long flavors of chocolate, licorice, hazelnut and coffee. A well made
grappa distilled with continuous and discontinuous alembic stills and aged
for 6 months in cherry wood casks and for 2 years and a half in barrique.
The pomace is smoked before being distilled. |