CentoPerCento ‘Grappa alle Uve di Cannellino’

About the distillery

1998 Luciano Brotto and his son Nicola founded the CentoPerCento company, seated on the Montello, a hilly region north of Treviso, in a corner of high historical and natural interest. Luciano is not only carrying forward his family hundred-year tradition of distilling but has also turned into a researcher and innovator to add value to a product, which is deep-rooted in the Veneto culture. CentoPercCento’s distillates are different from the traditional ones because their production has a modern conception, and the methods of distillation, invented by Luciano and Nicola themselves, are new, original and exclusive.

About Cannellino (Frascati)

The Cannellino di Frascati wine is obtained from a type of traditional grapes from the Frascati D.O.C. label (Malvasia di Candia and Malvasia di Lazio). This wine is a sweet wine from Lazio close to Roma. Nowadays it is rarely produced. It is said that originally the grapes used to make this wine were the last picked from the oldest and less fertile vineyards. In this way, whenever the grapes went rotten, the loss for the farmer would not have been conspicuous.

The Cannellino first diffused when the Pontine Marshes (Agro Pontino in Italian) still had to be reclaimed. The particular pedoclimatic condition favoured the growth of noble moulds like botrytis cinerea. The effects that this mould had on the grapes were to stop their fermentation, make the sugar rise and the acid decrease, thereby generating an excellent sweet wine. Today Cannellino is still made by very few producers and intended for an audience of enthusiasts.