Grappa Levi Romano Della Donna Selvatica Paglierina Vol 45% Cl.70

The grappas of Lidia and Romano Levi.

Often we are wrong when we talk about grappas, to think only of Romano.

GRAPPE DI LIDIA AND ROMANO LEVI should be defined, both because the distillery was an undivided legacy of the brothers, and because Lidia, on the first floor of the house in which she had isolated herself, leading an almost monastic life, selected and made the rare bottles of herbal grappa .

Lidia was the elder sister, an exceptional woman, protective, severe and wary; of her so Romano speaks in an interview:

".... for me it helped a lot (his presence) because I certainly wouldn't be here at this point ... yes he is also strict with me and so he was very useful to me in my work. He also works to make herbs which are works of art in bottles. For me it was very useful. "

But it is to Romano that we owe the great fame won by his grappa bottles for handwritten labels and then enriched with poetic phrases or naive drawings, those little masterpieces that today we define as "WILD ART".

The distillery was built by Serafino Levi and was equipped, then as today, with a direct fire still, as we learn from one of the rare interviews released by his son Romano in 1991, where few expert craftsmen work, defined by the same Roman "unaware" ... because they are unaware of the danger they are in as the still-fire distillers can explode.

To use a still-fire distiller, great skill and skill is required, but this procedure, perfected by Romano Levi and still rigorously respected, guarantees the perfect maintenance of all the aromatic components, which are decisive for the organoleptic characteristics of Grappa.

Here we propose the Levi grappa of the wild woman Paglierina aged 5 years.

From the Langhe, places where the vine has found one of its maximum expressions, come the pomace of the great wines of Piedmont DOC - DOCG; the resulting Grappa finds an extraordinary and exciting balance derived from tanning in underground pits.

Pombiolo Nebbiolo from Barbaresco DOCG, Dolcetto d’Alba DOC and Barbera d’Alba DOC.

This tanning then passes into the discontinuous copper still, the only one in the world, still active with direct fire for the distillation of grappa.

Aging for five years in classic Piedmontese barrels of about 700 liters, in different types of wood, stored in rooms with the right humidity and at a constant temperature between 14 and 19 degrees C °.