The Soft Tail distillery must have thought that their product was golden
because it was like breaking into Fort Knox to get into this bottle. It has not
one, but two coats of plastic wax over the cork, and it took about five minutes
of hacking away with a knife before I was finally able to uncork it (see
photo).
Luckily, the product is pretty decent. Grappa is made from grape pomace
which is the pulp left over after grapes have been squeezed to make wine. One
has to admire the ingenuity of those early European winemakers who wasted
nothing in their efforts to make more alcohol. Soft Tail is distilled
using traditional Portuguese copper stills in Woodinville, WA from sangiovese
pomace. Grappa can often be quite harsh, but this is fairly smooth with some
nice fruitiness to it. It also won a silver medal at the San Francisco World
Spirits Competition in 2010. The nude with her backside turned to you on the
label (presumably alluding to the Soft Tail name) tilts things back to the
ridiculous again, but the quality of the product helps to overcome these idiosyncrasies.
Soft Tail Sangiovese Grappa is available at only a few Seattle stores.
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