Wine Farm: Grappa :

Classification: Grappa distilled from the freshly-fermentedpomace of the grapes used to produce our Harlequin and Kairos wnes.

Producer: Azienda Zymè with the collaboration of the Plzer distillery.

Pilzer is a family-owned distillery with many years of specialised distilling experience. For the Pilzers, the art of distilling is a part of human experience that blends together
tradition, expertise, and passion, to magically extract from apparently poor raw materials a sublime product.
It is this family’s almost obsessive attention to that raw material, the grape pomace, that shows how special grappa is for them.
Zymè thus scrupulo usly observes their instruction for obtain- ing and bringing to their distillery pomace that is absolutely perfect.

Method of distillation: Use of a traditional pot-still, which Pilzer has modified. Distillation comprises three stages. First, pomace mixed with a specified amount of water is loaded into the alembic, followed by a gradual heating to the boiling point. The resulting flow of distilled spirits is then divided into the primary fractions, called the head, with the subsequent “heart” retained and the “tails” discarded. The distillation must be executed with painstaking care and patience. The grappa is stored for several months in stainless steel tanks and then diluted with water originating in porphyritic rock and therefore pure. The final step involves keeping the grappa at -8oC for several days, then filtering it through cellulose pads and bottling it.

Goal: Grapes, a passion for wine, fresh pomace, just a few days’ storage, passion and tradition in distillation, pure water, and more time: such are the secrets of this grappa.
It exhibits clean pleasant aromas, with suggestions of fresh mint melding with a rich yet delicate florality and scents characteristic of red berries, so much so as to resemble a distillate of wine rather than a grappa. On the palate it shows all of its powerful 48% alcohol, but it is pleasurable and harmonious, with superb complexity and a leisurely finish. Harlequin Grappa shows self-confidence, but elegance as well, which is the goal we set for it.