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Article: Acquired taste" from aquavit to grappa, some foreign drinks require a little getting used to.
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- August 1, 1994
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No one said it would be love at first sip. Not when the drink is grappa, bitters or aquavit, three curiously different foreign spirits. But then, how many of us fell in love with our first sip of espresso or taste of a garlic-buttered snail?
It may take several sips to appreciate grappa, the new "in" bi-coastal drink. An Italian brandy, grappa is distilled from grape skins and seeds. Intense and fiery, traditional grappa is a rustic drink, while the new grappas are smoother and more polished. Clear in color, some grappas are simple in taste, others, like those from Ceretto, Bruno Giacosa and Nonino, have an intriguing complexity. This former "poor man's drink" ...
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