Working out of a 19th-century shipping warehouse at the end of a pier in Brooklyn, Colin Alevras is busy tending to barrels of Chardonnay and Cabernet Franc at Red Hook Winery. Before greeting a midweek customer at the tasting counter, Alevras, the shop foreman, stops to check another barrel—but this one isn't filled with wine. It's filled with grappa that's been aging at the winery since 2012.

Floral and smooth, it's not the Italian firewater you might be used to throwing back after a big bowl of spaghetti at your neighborhood Italian joint. This small-batch, Brooklyn-based grappa will challenge everything you know about the storied spirit.

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