Levi Romano
Romano Levi, the “Grappaiolo Angelico” as Luigi Veronelli nicknamed him in the weekly Epoca, was a craftsman, a distiller, an artist, a poet, but above all, as he loved to define himself, an “ignaro”. Orphaned at the age of 17, he inherited the distillery in Neive left by his father Serafino and preserved for his entire life the same and only copper discontinuous still with direct fire that he worked with uninterruptedly for 63 years. His labels are famous, personally hand-drawn and often including poetic dedications that have long gone beyond the boundaries of the distillation world. His bottles received praise from many famous personalities, such as former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Marcello Mastrioianni, and Cesare Romiti, just to name a few.
Romano Levi used his still “Malba Giovanni” throughout his life, a direct fire Tamburlano, one of the most difficult devices to use in the field of distillation and which can produce grappa in minimal quantities compared to normal industrial stills. The The result of this type of processing is grappe raw, fiery, “wild” as the Maestro liked to define them, something that only those who have tried them can seek, if they can, to describe them. Not to forget the invaluable help and work of his sister Lidia, a watchful, silent woman with a Marian style, who prepared for a lifetime the bottles with the herbs she personally collected and which made the humble ignaro distiller famous.
Today, the house-distillery of Romano Levi has become a museum, visited by enthusiasts from all over the world, a museum that is still alive and continues to distill according to the tradition of the Grappaiolo Angelico, with the help of that band of friends who have “fallen behind” compared to the world and who still jealously guard the last grappas distilled by the great Friend, still left to age in barrel and waiting to be able to speak of their author.able to grasp, perhaps more than anyone else, its soul. Grappe of a balance, aromaticity, and emotions that are simply extraordinary.
Romano Levi, the “Grappaiolo Angelico” as Luigi Veronelli nicknamed him in the weekly Epoca, was a craftsman, a distiller, an artist, a poet, but above all, as he loved to define himself, an “ignaro”. Orphaned at the age of 17, he inherited the distillery in Neive left by his father Serafino and preserved for his entire life the same and only copper discontinuous still with direct fire that he worked with uninterruptedly for 63 years. His labels are famous, personally hand-drawn and often including poetic dedications that have long gone beyond the boundaries of the distillation world. His bottles received praise from many famous personalities, such as former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Marcello Mastrioianni, and Cesare Romiti, just to name a few.
Romano Levi used his still “Malba Giovanni” throughout his life, a direct fire Tamburlano, one of the most difficult devices to use in the field of distillation and which can produce grappa in minimal quantities compared to normal industrial stills. The The result of this type of processing is grappe raw, fiery, “wild” as the Maestro liked to define them, something that only those who have tried them can seek, if they can, to describe them. Not to forget the invaluable help and work of his sister Lidia, a watchful, silent woman with a Marian style, who prepared for a lifetime the bottles with the herbs she personally collected and which made the humble ignaro distiller famous.
Today, the house-distillery of Romano Levi has become a museum, visited by enthusiasts from all over the world, a museum that is still alive and continues to distill according to the tradition of the Grappaiolo Angelico, with the help of that band of friends who have “fallen behind” compared to the world and who still jealously guard the last grappas distilled by the great Friend, still left to age in barrel and waiting to be able to speak of their author.able to grasp, perhaps more than anyone else, its soul. Grappe of a balance, aromaticity, and emotions that are simply extraordinary.
