: a dry colorless brandy distilled from fermented grape pomace
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You may be poured a farewell glass grappa on the house.—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025 The secret is to line the glass with Angostura bitters; throw in a clove and a tiny eyedropper of a dark grappa.—airmail.news, 8 Mar. 2025 The vodka is made from grape pomace, similar to grappa, but uses an entirely different production process resulting in an aromatic, fruit-forward vodka.—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025 The most interesting thing about distilling single varietal grappa in an artisanal way is that each distillation and each grappa is unique!—Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024 Warm up with a nice grappa or glass of vino at Enoteca Cortina or another one of Cortina’s buzzy, yet welcoming taverns.—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2023 The response from a manager and a bartender toward dinner’s end was to introduce my posse to a Chinese spirit poised to make an appearance on the menu: clear firewater, potent as grappa, poured from a red-and-gold flask into thimble-size shot glasses.—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023 Pick up some grappa-like grape brandy, too, which most vineyards also produce.—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2021 The first is citrusy, smelling and tasting like a very good grappa.—Russ Parsons, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
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Etymology
Italian, from Italian dialect, grape stalk, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German krāpfo hook
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