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Grappa di Chardonnay

Grappa di Chardonnay

Grappa di Chardonnay

Bottle Price: £29.00

Case Price: £330.6

  • Country: Italy
  • Region: Piemonte
  • Grape Variety: Chardonnay
  • Alcohol: 40%
  • Bottle Size: 50cl

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You can mix any 12 bottles of wine(or more) to get the ‘case price’ for each bottle.      

White, transparent, with a fine lingering note of flowers and aromatic hay. Dry flavour with a lingering aroma - stylish clean flavour with an elegant key note of apple.

Musso - Piedmont, Barbaresco, Italy

Close friends and neighbours of the Giacosa family – in fact they were introduced to us through Maria Grazia during a visit to Vinitaly in 2005. This is a family domain, of 13ha, which, once again, has a pedigree for making fine Piedmont wines stretching back to the early 1900s when it was under the ownership of Valter Musso's great grandfather. Valter's wife, Paola, a former attorney, is the domain's administrator.

It was the charm and finesse of the white wines that first won our approval. They offered a quality and delicacy balanced with developed flavours that stood out even after a long day tasting over-oaked and concentrated ‘Super Tuscans’. The discovery of the range of excellent Grappas proved to be too good a chance to miss – not to everyone’s taste but these should be sampled and savoured before pronouncing an opinion.

Grappa is an alcoholic beverage, a fragrant grape-based pomace brandy of between 35% and 60% alcohol by volume (70 to 120 US proof) of Italian origin, similar to Spanish orujo liquor, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin lozovača or komovica or Chacha, Republic of Georgia and Portuguese bagaço, or French marc. Literally "grape stalk", most grappa is made by distilling pomace and grape residue (mainly the skins, but also stems and seeds) left over from winemaking  after pressing. It was originally made to prevent waste by using leftovers at the end of the wine season. A similar drink, known as acquavite d'uva, is made by distilling whole must. The flavour of grappa, like that of wine, depends on the type and quality of the grape used as well as the specifics of the distillation process.

Grappa is now a protected name in the EU, just like Barolo wine and Parmigiano cheese. To be called grappa, the following criteria must be met:

(1) Produced in Italy

(2) Produced from pomace

(3) Fermentation and distillation must occur on the pomace—no added water

In Italy, grappa is primarily served as a "digestivo" or after-dinner drink. Its main purpose was to aid in the digestion of heavy meals. Grappa may also be added to espresso coffee to create a caffè corretto meaning corrected coffee. Another variation of this is the "ammazzacaffè" (literally, "coffee-killer"): the espresso is drunk first, followed by a few ounces of grappa served in its own glass. In the Veneto, there is resentin: after finishing a cup of espresso with sugar, a few drops of grappa are poured into the nearly empty cup, swirled and drunk down in one sip.

Most grappa is clear, indicating that it is an un-aged distillate, though some may retain very faint pigments from their original fruit pomace. Lately, aged grappas have become more common, and these take on a yellow, or red-brown hue from the barrels in which they are stored.