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The restaurant’s dining room offers tables for as many as 12, with cozy corners for tables for two or four, and a spacious bar where guests can enjoy a variety of cocktails, wines or grappas.
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Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2026
The bittersweet liqueur, made with grappa here, but elsewhere from wine and other spirits, is infused with aromatic herbs, spices, fruits and bitter roots.
—Anna Lee C. Iijima, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Nov. 2025
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
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
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Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2026
The bittersweet liqueur, made with grappa here, but elsewhere from wine and other spirits, is infused with aromatic herbs, spices, fruits and bitter roots.
—Anna Lee C. Iijima, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Nov. 2025
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
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
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“Grappa.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grappa. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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