‘Castagno’ translates from Italian as ‘Chestnut’, and reveals something about how this grappa has been made.

The spirit is distilled in the traditional manner from grape pomace in small bain-marie stills. After distillation, roasted and chopped chestnuts from Piedmont are marinated in the spirit for six months before the mixture is separated, and the grappa is matured for a further five years in 225 litre chestnut wood barrels.

The end result is a nutty, sweet spirit with notes of chestnuts, hazelnuts, soft oak, sweet grapes, raisins, vanilla, toffee, milk chocolate, dried flowers, and sandalwood.

Deliciously different, this would do very well served after dinner.

• Distillery / brand
  Dellavalle
• Country
  Italy
• Bottler
  Distillery Bottling
• Non-chillfiltered
  No
• Natural colour
  No
• SKU
  050339