Grappa Gran Riserva

Casa Luparia (Italy)

Pomace of Barbera, Grignolino, Freisa
Grappa	Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

This grappa shows a pale straw yellow color, crystalline. The nose reveals intense, clean, pleasing and refined aromas of licorice, honey, vanilla, plum, violet, hazelnut, black cherry and chocolate, with almost imperceptible alcohol pungency. In the mouth has intense flavors, with perceptible alcohol pungency and which tends to dissolve rapidly, good correspondence to the nose, balanced sweetness, pleasing smoothness. The finish is persistent with flavors of honey, hazelnut, plum and licorice. A well made grappa produced with discontinuous distillation at very low steam pressure. It ages for more than 24 months in cask.
Alcohol: 42%	18 °C (64 °F)
August 2008