Grappa Materials: the POMACE

23 May 2019    •    Stories

However refined the skills of the distiller or the still, it is the quality of the pomace that distinguishes an excellent grappa from a forgettable one....

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The Little Dictionary Of Grappa, from F for Fermentation to Y for grape Yeats

11 October 2017    •    Stories

We continue our glossary of grappa (the first part is here), a reference tool which we hope will help readers of our blog to find their way in the complex and fascinating world of grappa....

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The Little Dictionary of Grappa From A for Acids to H for Heart

1 October 2017    •    Stories

We’ve talked a lot about grappa, about its history, about stills and raw materials and distillation methods. In the next few posts we’d like to offer a reference tool to help readers of our blog to find their way in the complex and fascinating...

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A thousand uses for marcs

28 March 2017    •    Stories

Writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) noted that “Haste makes waste, no less in life than it does in housekeeping.” The farming and agricultural world is inseparable from the rhythms of nature, and is certainly not prone to...

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Marcs: a noble raw material

2 July 2016    •    Stories

Everything good that you taste in a sip of grappa comes from the marcs...without these, this distillate wouldn’t even exist. The quality of a grappa comes from the marcs before anything, or the remaining mass of skins and pips left after the...

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