Grappa Levi Romano Della Donna Selvatica Ambrata Vol.50% Cl.70

The grappas of Lidia and Romano Levi called Serafino.

It is often a mistake, when talking about grappa, to think only of Romano.

They should be called GRAPPA DI LIDIA E ROMANO LEVI, both because the distillery was the undivided inheritance of the brothers, and because Lidia, on the first floor of the house where she had isolated herself leading an almost monastic life, selected and made the very rare bottles of herbal grappa.

Lidia was the older sister, an exceptional woman, protective, severe and cautious; Romano speaks of her in an interview:

"...for me it was very beneficial (her presence) because I certainly wouldn't be here at this point ... yes, she is strict with me too and therefore she was very useful in my work. She also works to make the herbs that are works of art in the bottles. For me she was very useful."

But it is Romano who is responsible for the great fame gained by his grappa bottles for the hand-written 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 now, with a direct-fire still, as we learn from one of the rare interviews given by his son Romano in 1991, where a few expert craftsmen work, defined by Romano himself as "ignorant" ... because they are unaware of the danger they run as live-fire distillers can explode.

To use a live fire distiller requires great expertise and skill, but this procedure perfected by Romano Levi and still strictly respected today, guarantees the perfect maintenance of all the aromatic components, which are crucial for the organoleptic characteristics of Grappa.

Here we offer grappa Levi Romano delle donne selvatiche che saltolano le colline a due a due ambrata anno aged 9 years.

From the Langhe, places where the vine has found one of its maximum expressions, comes the pomace of the great wines of Piedmont DOC – DOCG; the Grappa that comes from it finds an extraordinary and exciting balance derived from the curing in underground pits.

Nebbiolo pomace from Barbaresco Docg, Dolcetto Doc and Barbera d'Alba Doc. .

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

Aged for nine years in classic Piedmontese acacia wood barrels and stored in a room with the right humidity and at a constant temperature between 14 and 19 degrees C°.

Romano Levi label, year of production and correction of the back label handwritten by Levi himself.

Collectible product with wooden case.