Soba45
Po do Poli Morbida Grappa
Grappa/Marc — Veneto, Italy
Reviewed
March 3, 2020 (edited March 4, 2020)
I think I'll take cascodes advice and give up on grappa altogether. I tried some in Italy 20 years ago nearly and it was horrendous. This really isn't much better. It's like someone dumped artificial perfume into diluted ethanol mixed with salad oil both of which come through on the nose along with faint kippers. Really really really not for me sorry.
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@PBMichiganWolverine Also, the chief subjective difference is that it is highly flavoured and oily. To me it tastes more like slivovitz than vodka.
@PBMichiganWolverine No, it’s a distilled spirit made from pomace, which is the mass of seeds, stems and skins left after wine production. It was originally a way to use up the last dregs of alcohol-bearing material. It’s classified as a type of eau-de-vie, which means it fits under the broad term of brandy.
@PBMichiganWolverine Yup pretty much. I guess it qualifies as a type of brandy given it's fruit based spirit.
What is grappa? Is that like vodka...except from grapes?
@cascode Yeah I'm stocking up on old favorites at cheap prices soon to disappear e.g. GD 18. I have a mate with 2 old GD 15s which i'm trying to do a swap with. It's like trading cards in the old days..if you give me that 1 card I'll give you 2 of these, 1 of those, 3 of these etc.. hopefully the 'drown him in whiskey' approach works.. I have the old 14, 5x 18 an a 21 and NO 15 year..
@Soba45 My pleasure - it was an interesting year, trying out a whole bunch of spirits I’ve either never tasted before or had tasted so long ago that I’d forgotten what they were like. At the end of the experience the only new spirits I enjoyed enough to ever buy again were mezcal and genever. Apart from that it’s whisky and gin all the way for me, with maybe an occasional cognac or rum. Anyway, I’m currently seriously cutting back on consumption and only buying the odd scotch single-cask IB whisky to go into long-term stash.
@cascode I've really enjoyed the diversity of what you've sent over. It really has taken me outside my comfort zone! I think more and more I'm just consolidating around whiskey, even most boubons aren't doing it for me these days. It's pretty much just whiskey, cognac for occasional side dessert, random bourbon if it's rated highly and no cherry flavor, occasional gin for mixer (but i'm really loving straight East Imperial tonic even more so than with added gin), a random fresh mezcal now and then, done with Armagnac and random other spirits such as grappa.
Ha ha - fair enough. I can get all those notes as well. That oily quality is in them all to some degree. I’ve just about killed my bottle of this - it’s the last one of six grappas I bought to check out the spirit and I won’t be buying any more ... ever.