Grappa Stravecchia 1988
Casa Luparia (Italy)
Piedmont
Pomace of Barbera, Grignolino and Freisa |
Grappa |
Score: ✧✧✧✧✧ |
This grappa shows a brilliant golden yellow color, limpid and crystalline.
The nose reveals intense, clean and pleasing aromas of licorice, vanilla,
tobacco, honey, hazelnut, banana, plum, chocolate and black cherry with
almost imperceptible alcohol pungency. The mouth is intense with good
correspondence to the nose, perceptible alcohol pungency which tends to
dissolve rapidly, pleasing smoothness, balanced sweet hint. The finish is
persistent with flavors of licorice, hazelnut, honey and plum. A well made
grappa produced with discontinuous distillation at very low steam pressure.
It ages for more than 12 years in cask. |
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Alcohol: 42%
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18 °C (64 °F) |
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Issue 32, Summer 2005 |
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