Grappa di Amarone Legno 50 cl

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The Grappa di Amarone Legno is a pomace brandy liquor based on Corvina grape, also used for the making of the Amarone della Valpolicella (one of the most famous Italian straw wines), is distilled by winemaster Capovilla in his famous bain-marie stills, just outside the town of Bassano. The Grappa di Amarone Legno is a sophisticated liquor, aged in oak barrel, which gave it this beautiful gold color.

Each bottle is hand-laced, hand-waxed, and finally hand-sealed, which shows how much care is taken in the process of making of this product. The hand-written label let you know about the fruit type, the year of harvest, and the number of each bottle. It is a real sterling work.

Its perfume is fine and has character. Hints of different honeys, of candied lemon and lime, fresh walnuts, chamomile and dried flowers. Then come the fruits (pear, apple, Mirabelle plum), as well as heady flowers (lime, hawthorn). Once in your mouth, its taste is dense and rich, more cloistered and interiorized than its scents. Its goal is to concentrate its aromas for to create an exotic burst: pineapples, banana, and guava. Dark chocolate and vanilla then come in a fight to overpower each other, but their balance stays perfect. The final touch is smooth and concentrated, with numerous spices: ginger, cinnamon, pink berries, clove… A field of geranium suddenly appears. Farther, you will find baskets full of grapes, peaches and Mirabelle plums.

If you go back a few hours later to this grappa, you will discover other perfumes, more juicy this time (ripe plum, nectarine) that will spring out of your glass. Being changing and free is the mark of the greatest liquors, reminding us that modesty is a the mother of all virtues.