What are the different types of distillation?
BATCH STILLS: The grape marc is placed in small steam boilers. The steam, injected from the bottom, goes through the grape marc removing its alcohol contents. The boilers must be filled up and unloaded one batch at a time and each batch is distilled under the careful supervision of the master distiller, who removes the initial and final parts of the distillate (the “heads” and “tails” that give an unpleasant taste to the product). CONTINUOUS: The grape marc travels continuously inside an apparatus call “disalcolatore”, where it passes through a jet of steam coming from the opposite direction. This is an industrial method that produces a rather bland quality of grappa.
