January 10, 2012 @ 06:37 PM

 Ever heard of Grappa?   Stan Williams just sent me some Grappa... Grappa is one of Italy's most popular alcoholic drinks, with the main ingredient being pomace, which consists of the grape skins, seeds and stalks that are left over from the winemaking process.  These are taken through a second process of distillation, which extracts the remaining flavours from the pomace before the waste is discarded.  The grappa is then either bottled at once, which creates white grappa or aged in wooded casks to create the yellow grappa known as riserva.  Grappa is a wonderful way to end a meal, drunk either as a shot or on its own or added to an espresso.  Cheers! Thank you Stan!