Grappa from Alta Langa Marolo - Giulio Cocchi
Obtained from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir pomace, with pressing of whole bunches. Distillation takes place in discontinuous bain-marie stills. The first Alta Langa grappa was born from an idea by Cocchi and Marolo, produced in a limited number of bottles with the pomace of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes from which Cocchi obtains its Alta Langa Docg. There are 300 bottles produced. To taste it alone, a tulip glass is recommended, so as to allow the most intense concentration of aromas to be smelled and deciphered. At the same time, it has a large surface area to oxygenate and express oneself to the fullest.
Type: Grappa
Origin: Piedmont - Italy
Alcohol content: 42%
Format: 50cl
Tasting Notes: This young and fresh Grappa maintains the same style as the wine from which it derives: rigorous and at the same time delicate, it presents notes of white fruit and currants together with a lighter hint of honey. Delicate and fragrant, it releases pleasant notes of blackcurrant and blueberry on the palate as well as fresher vegetal notes, a very light spicy note sweetened with honey completes the whole of this clean white grappa. Excellent at the end of a meal, alone or with ice. It pairs perfectly with cigars.
The Cellar: Giulio Cocchi was a young and creative pastry chef from Florence who moved to Asti at the end of the nineteenth century. He created original recipes for Barolo Chinato, Aperitivo Americano and several types of Vermouth, achieving success and fame in a short time. Giulio Cocchi's idea, exceptional for the time, was to open authorized retailers where these products could be tasted. Cocchi was a very well-known brand during the Belle Epoque and on the eclectic scene of the futurist period. The Cocchi name and products soon became famous throughout the world as demonstrated by export documents: from New York to London, from Sydney to Africa and Venezuela. Cocchi paid a lot of attention to quality single-variety brut sparkling wines, produced with the Italian method since the 1980s such as CocchiBrut and, more recently, the commitment to the creation and valorisation of the DOCG Altalanga, of which Cocchi is still one of the most busy. From the founder Giulio Cocchi, the winery has also inherited an inexhaustible liveliness and qualitative research that has led it to be known and appreciated on five continents. All Cocchi products are wine-based and the recipes are those of the past, codified based on the intuitions of Giulio Cocchi himself. What defines the Cocchi style is therefore elegance and authenticity, the quality of the wine and the ingredients, the centenary technical experience, a passion and creativity that have never waned over the years. Since 2012 Giulio Cocchi has been registered in the National Register of Historic Companies of Italy for its first 130 years of uninterrupted activity.
