We are so used to seeing a bottle at home or at a restaurant that we do not question: How is it made? Where does its aroma come from? how can I better know it? This is why we created Grappa.com
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30 Aprile 2013
Served fake Grappa to customers
In Palermo, the Forestry Police discovered a Chinese restaurant owner selling an alcoholic beverage, produced and bottled in China, passing it off as Grappa. In fact, the name 'Grappa' can only be used for grape marc spirit produced in Italy and made from Italian grapes. The restaurant owner was accused of fraud in trade and all the bottles found...
read29 Aprile 2013
The olfactory code of Grappa
How can one understand and appreciate the quality of the raw material used to distill Grappa? How could we evaluate the mastery behind the production of the most famous italian spirit, just by using our own sense organs? The "Codice sensoriale della Grappa" will be shortly released to give an answer to these questions:this book will enable...
read08 Aprile 2013
Goodbye, Giuseppe Bonollo
Giuseppe Bonollo passed away on April xth 2013 at the age of 78: he grew up as representative of the third generation of this family of distillers in Padova. Chairman of his family-run company since the seventies, he was able to innovate the production of Grappa, an activity started with his grandfather in 1908 e perpetuated by the whole family...
read24 Settembre 2012
Grappa is female
The Tartara al Mercato Hall in Pavia, at 5 p.m., will become the scene of stories and analysis concerning the history of Grappa, with tasting of various distillates and a photo gallery of the Piedmontese distilleries. The event is informal and the main argument will focuse on the "femininity" of Grappa, which is expressed through its sensual, warm...
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