Grappa

Grappa - also known as "wine a grappa" - the Italian grape alcoholic drink with a strength from 40 to 50% about. It is made by distillation grape otzhimok (for which name the French word marc), that is, the grapes remains (including stalks and stones is often used) after its otzhimka in the course of production of wine. Moonshine from the grape cake remaining after production of wine. Initially the grappa was made for recycling of production upon termination of a wine season, but quickly became a profit source, began to be produced serially and to be on sale worldwide.

In the beginning this very doubtful drink was done for the house use by poor Italian peasants. Taste at it was rough and crude, saw it in a volley from improvised clay flat dishes. But given rise in poverty of the Italian peasants, the grappa two centuries of the history later became a high-class product and style.

Up to the 40th years of the XX century the grappa was considered in Italy as something like our moonshine. At the majority of restaurants it was not even included in the menu. But it enjoyed love in country osteriya and working quarters of the cities. Now the grappa is offered in the most prestigious institutions. It is considered stylish and very "man's" drink.

Grappa was initially made in the city of Bassano del Grappa about the mountain Grappa - from here and the name of drink.