High craftsmanship spirit

Grappa is a typically Italian product. For decades it was little more than a spirit popular among the farmers and inhabitants of the northern Italian mountains. But all that was before the Nonino family from Percoto, in Friuli, ennobled grappa and transformed it into a high quality distillate. To the point where Nonino was awarded the 2019 World’s Best Distillery Prize at the Wine Enthusiast_Wine Star Awards in San Francisco. The Nonino family has been devoted to the art of distillation in Friuli since 1897. Founded by Orazio Nonino as a travelling distillery, it was in the early Seventies that Nonino, thanks to the enterprise of Benito and Giannola Nonino, underwent a major evolution based on the intuition of separately distilling the Picolit pomace to launch the tradition of single-vine grappa (Monovitigno®). The Nonino family deals personally with the buying of raw material, namely the pomace derived from the timehonoured Friuli vines. This retrieval and recycling is important furthermore in preserving autochthonous species

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