Grappa Riserva
Carpenè Malvolti (Italy)
Veneto
Selection of aged grappas |
Grappa |
Score: ✧✧✧✭ |
This grappa shows a pale straw yellow color, limpid and crystalline. The
nose reveals intense, clean and pleasing aromas of pear, vanilla, hazelnut,
honey, licorice and banana, 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, pleasing and
balanced sweet hint. The finish is persistent with flavors of licorice and
hazelnut. This grappa is distilled with steam operated discontinous alembic
still and ages in cask. |
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Alcohol: 40%
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17 °C (62 °F) |
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Issue 35, November 2005 |
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