Within our bar there are a wide range of liquors that each have their own very special and unique characteristics.
I am personally very fond of one in particular - Grappa. Grappa is a spirit made from the distillation of vinaccia, more commonly known as pomace. These are the remnants of wine making, the shed skins, cocoons of wine. Why not pay your regards to the body of wine?
This vinaccia is distilled in a bain-marie, where the pomace, whole, is distilled. Typically this is done twice, in a standard alembic pot still, but this can be done in a continuous still as well. After the distillation, grappa can be either bottled clear, without aging in oak, or in wooden barrels. These barrels are typically oak, but there is no control or prescriptive law to make this consistent.
The difference in oak aging and not is one significant difference in the style of a grappa, also is the use of white wine grape pomace and red wine grape pomace. I will first describe the style of white wine grappas, and then red wine, ending with the wood influenced grappa.
