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Who invented Grappa?
The Italian people! Grappa, as a spirit, was conceived in the context of the medical school of Salerno, where, around the year 1000 AD, the rules of the concentration of alcohol through distillation were codified and its use was recommended to cure various human ailments. Thus distillates were granted a long lasting success.
Grape marc, alcohol-producing raw material, which was poor - as against wine, for example, it contains two thirds less alcohol - but quite widespread, was taken immediately into consideration and its spirit was known already in 1400. However, there is no clear-cut technological distinction among alcoholic distillates before the beginning of the 19th century, when the Italy of grappa went its own way and achieved the creation of a drink with unique and unrepeatable features.
