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How many companies are currently producing Grappa?
In the past few years many brands are borned, so there are no accurate statistics
There are three categories of enterprises:
- Distilleries (like Poli), those for which the term "distillery" is not only a word in their trade name, but which actually have steam coming out of their stills: about 130 of them have been counted over the past two campaigns. A curious fact, is that there were more than two thousands of them at the end of last century. This is why distillers should be added to the list of protected species;
- Bottlers who buy Grappa - generally at high alcohol content - from various distilleries, combine different Grappas following their own recipe and carry out all the necessary operations to make the spirit suitable for consumption and packaging, too. By law they can be called "producers" like the distillers. Currently, this category counts more than 500 enterprises;
- Traders with their own trademark, who have the product packaged by distillers or by bottlers. At the moment, they are some thousands and, among them, there is the considerable phenomenon of the growing production of "farm Grappa". This is a constantly increasing business and consists in vine-growing and wine-producing farms, which have Grappa distilled from their own grape pomace by distillers they trust, and then sell it together with their wines.
