BarSol Pisco

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  Barsol Pisco Mosto Verde Italia 70 cl 41.8%

  Item no.: 059763-615-903

  Making Mosto Verde means stopping halfway. The fermentation is never allowed to finish, and a large share of the sugar never becomes alcohol at all. It costs twice as many grapes per bottle. In return, something happens in the copper still that happens no other way.

  The expert's description

  Barsol Pisco Mosto Verde Italia 70 cl 41.8% is a Peruvian Pisco Mosto Verde distilled from the aromatic Italia grape in copper pot stills and bottled at 41.8% with no water added.

  Mosto Verde means green must, and it refers to a must that is not yet finished. Rather than letting fermentation run its full course, it is halted while sugar is still present, and the must goes to the still in that state. The sugar does not carry across into the distillate, but the must behaves differently during distillation, and the result is a fuller, oilier texture that many read as sweetness even though there is not a gram of sugar in the bottle.

  The bill is paid in raw material. Where roughly five kilos of grapes fill a bottle of standard Barsol Pisco, this one calls for about twice that. Italia is the name of the grape, not of a country. It is an aromatic table grape of French origin, listed among Peru's aromatic pisco varieties, and it already smells of flowers and ripe fruit before fermentation even starts.

  Barsol is made at Bodega San Isidro in the Ica Valley south of Lima, where the distillery has worked for over a century. No pisco from this house goes near wood, and no water, colouring or flavouring is added.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Complex and finely woven. Fresh grapes and green apple, semi-sweet citrus in the shape of orange, lemon and lime, with honey and rose petal underneath.

  Palate

  Tropical fruit with clear melon and pear, citrus laid across the top and golden raisins at the back. Rich without turning heavy, and the texture is close to silk.

  Finish

  Soft and refined. Everything holds together all the way out, and the floral notes stay put long after the last sip.

  Specifications

  Name: Barsol Pisco Mosto Verde Italia 70 cl 41.8%
  Distillery: Bodega San Isidro
  Region/Country: Ica Valley, Peru
  Type: Peruvian Pisco Mosto Verde from the Italia grape
  ABV: 41.8%
  Size: 70 CL
  Natural colour: Yes
  Distillation method: Single distilled in copper pot stills to bottle proof
  EAN no.: 7750323000159
  Serving suggestion: Neat in a tulip glass at room temperature
  

  Flavour profile

  Floral · Tropical fruit · Citrus · Silky · Aromatic

  Did you know?

  Barsol rests its pisco for at least twelve months before bottling, but never in wood. The rest happens in glass and stainless steel, precisely because Peruvian Pisco has to stay water-clear and taste of nothing but grape.

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  • 67,00
    1pcs.
    58,25EUR
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  Barsol Pisco Quebranta 70 cl 41.3%

  Item no.: 059763-615-902

  The Ica Valley sits wedged between the Pacific and the first ridges of the Andes, and almost no rain ever falls there. Sand, stone, sun. The vines stand anyway, year after year. Quebranta is the grape that learned to live with it.

  The expert's description

  Barsol Pisco Quebranta 70 cl 41.3% is a Peruvian Pisco Puro distilled from the Quebranta grape in copper pot stills and bottled at 41.3% straight off the still with no water added.

  The bottle comes from Bodega San Isidro in southern Ica, a distillery with more than a century behind it. Barsol is the house's pisco label, and Quebranta is the foundation it rests on. The variety emerged in Peru when Spanish Negra Criolla vines had to make peace with stony ground and dry heat. The name carries the story: quebranta means tamed in Spanish.

  Quebranta belongs to the non-aromatic pisco grapes. It does not throw flowers and perfume at you, it brings body, sugar and an earthy sort of fruit instead. That is exactly why Peruvians reach for it in a Pisco Sour, where lime juice and egg white otherwise run away with the whole show.

  Pisco never sees wood. No water, sugar, colouring or flavouring may be added, and the spirit is bottled at whatever strength it leaves the copper still with. At Barsol it rests in glass and stainless steel before bottling, so everything in the bottle comes from the grape and the fermentation.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Pear and red apple first, then freshly cut grass. Behind that sit dried fruit and something cake-like, fresh cream and a trace of cocoa, kept in line by fine citrus notes.

  Palate

  Ripe pear, red apple and red grapes with citrus laid across them. Then the nuts arrive: toasted almond, walnut and pecan, with dark chocolate and a grainy tone underneath. Dried apricot and ripe dark berries close it out.

  Finish

  Round and long. The fruit settles slowly, the nuts hang around, and the alcohol never burns.

  Specifications

  Name: Barsol Pisco Quebranta 70 cl 41.3%
  Distillery: Bodega San Isidro
  Region/Country: Ica Valley, Peru
  Type: Peruvian Pisco Puro from the Quebranta grape
  ABV: 41.3%
  Size: 70 CL
  Natural colour: Yes
  Distillation method: Single distilled in copper pot stills to bottle proof
  EAN no.: 7750323000098
  Serving suggestion: Pisco Sour or a Chilcano with ginger ale and lime
  

  Flavour profile

  Fruity · Nutty · Dry · Round · Earthy

  Did you know?

  It takes roughly five kilos of grapes to fill one bottle of Barsol Pisco. The juice is distilled once and arrives at bottle strength entirely on its own, which is why two bottles from the same house can easily carry different percentages.

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  • 53,50
    1pcs.
    46,50EUR
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  Barsol Pisco Selecto Torontel 70 cl 41,3%

  Item no.: 22227865491-18805

  Pour it, and the flowers are out of the glass before you have picked it up. Jasmine, lilac, citrus blossom. Torontel is the loudest grape in Peru, and not a single drop of flavouring was added to make it that way.

  The expert's description

  Barsol Pisco Selecto Torontel 70 cl 41.3% is a Peruvian Pisco Puro distilled from the aromatic Torontel grape in copper pot stills and bottled at 41.3% with no water added.

  Torontel is a relative of Argentina's Torrontés with roots in northern Spain, where it yields crisp white wines that smell somewhere between Muscat and Gewürztraminer. Peru adopted it long ago, and beyond wine a large share of the harvest ends up in pisco. Selecto is Barsol's designation for the house's single-variety bottlings, where the entire flavour rests on one grape alone.

  Because Barsol works to the Peruvian rulebook, the flowers come from the grape and nowhere else. No aroma, sugar, colouring or water may be added, and there is no cask to lay vanilla and spice over the top. The spirit leaves the copper still at 41.3% and is bottled exactly like that.

  Bodega San Isidro sits in the Ica Valley south of Lima, where coastal fog and cold nights leave the grapes with enough acidity to carry their aroma through the whole process. That acidity is what keeps this bottle light rather than perfumed and heavy.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  White and purple flowers, jasmine and lilac, with citrus blossom and lemongrass behind them. A trace of meyer lemon and a dark berry tone right at the bottom.

  Palate

  Light peach and apricot, lemon and dark berries, soft black raisins. Then a streak of liquorice turns up alongside lavender and a mischievous touch of white pepper.

  Finish

  Velvety and light. The flowers linger longest, and there are no sharp edges at the close.

  Specifications

  Name: Barsol Pisco Selecto Torontel 70 cl 41.3%
  Distillery: Bodega San Isidro
  Region/Country: Ica Valley, Peru
  Type: Peruvian Pisco Puro from the Torontel grape
  ABV: 41.3%
  Size: 70 CL
  Natural colour: Yes
  Distillation method: Single distilled in copper pot stills to bottle proof
  EAN no.: 7750323000128
  Serving suggestion: Neat in a tulip glass or in a Chilcano with ginger ale
  

  Flavour profile

  Floral · Stone fruit · Citrus · Velvety · Aromatic

  Did you know?

  Peru approves only eight grape varieties for Pisco. Four count as aromatic, namely Torontel, Italia, Moscatel and Albilla, and four as non-aromatic, with Quebranta the most widely planted. Torontel is the one most often mistaken for perfume on a first sniff.

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  • 67,00
    1pcs.
    58,25EUR