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Avignonesi

Tuscany (Italy)

Distillates Reviewed: 2

Average Score: ✧✧✧✧

Grappa di Vin Santo 1997

Grappa di Vino Nobile di Montepulciano 2000

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Grappa di Vin Santo 1997

Avignonesi (Italy)

Tuscany

(Distiller: Distilleria Nannoni)

Pomace of Grechetto, Malvasia Toscana, Trebbiano Toscano
Grappa	Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

This grappa shows a brilliant amber yellow color, limpid and crystalline. The nose reveals intense, clean, pleasing and refined aromas of hazelnut, vanilla, honey, licorice, dried fig, chocolate and praline 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, intense flavors. The finish is persistent with flavors of honey, licorice and dried fig. This grappa is distilled with steam operated discontinuous alembic still and ages in barrique for three years and for at least 2 years in bottle.

Alcohol: 42%	18 °C (64 °F)

Issue 51, April 2007

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Grappa di Vino Nobile di Montepulciano 2000

Avignonesi (Italy)

Tuscany

(Distiller: Distilleria Nannoni)

Pomace of Prugnolo Gentile, Canaiolo Nero, Mammolo
Grappa	Score: ✧✧✧✧

This grappa is colorless, limpid and crystalline. The nose denotes intense, clean, pleasing and refined aromas of blackberry, raspberry, violet, plum, licorice and black cherry 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, pretty dry, intense flavors. The finish is persistent with flavors of plum and black cherry. This grappa is distilled with steam operated discontinuous alembic still.

Alcohol: 42%	12 °C (53 °F)

Issue 51, April 2007

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