I know what you mean about the harvest, lately it keeps getting worse every year... Thankfully my vineyard is basically my garden, so it's all for myself and I don't sell it, meaning I got more than enough for myself, so much that I get extra grapes to snack on!Aw, that's a shame. My family makes homebrew beer (and also used to make wine with our own grapes too, but we stopped because harvests became progressively worse as each year passed) and I thought we could try brewing Sake too, but it was already a pain to find the right type of yeast, so I don't think I'll ever be able to find that specific rice...
Here in Italy we have something called "grappa" which many consider to be moonshine because it's made out of winemaking leftovers and, at least in the past, was sometimes illegally made (just like moonshine). It's not my kind of stuff but with all the regulations in place right now you can expect to drink something good, unless you get some roughly made, poor quality, shady stuff that you got from some farmer located in the middle of nowhere, that is.
Actually, we have grappa here too (Greece), but it's terrible, although very rarely it can be decent...
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I didn't mean it as aged, there's nothing to age when it's almost entirely alcohol Just telling you to get the kind that's 99%, not something that's 80 years old.if it were available here i would get that
i wish i could . . . aged drinks are (usually) expensive