Spirit of the Harvest Grappas
2006 Wooded and Un-Wooded

Most grappas are made from the pressings left over from the winemaking process. Spirit is distilled primarily from the free-run juice and whole berries within the fermentation cap that was scooped off prior to the pressing and fortifying of our 2006 petite sirah port.

Spirit was distilled in a copper Armagnac still by our neighbor, Stillwater Spirits, to 150 proof, retaining much of the varietal character. The un-wooded grappa was kept in stainless steel, the wood-aged grappa was moved into used chardonnay barrels. With both grappas, the distilled "cutting water" was added slowly during the aging process to soften the finish of the finished spirit.