Grape Liquor: Toasted
(‘Tostada') — A Spirited Drink

"Grape liquor abides in fire. The painter dyes the sugar amber.”

Three main characteristics, brilliance, pluckiness and sweetness combine, to define the noble character of Pazo Pondal's Grape Liquor ‘Tostada'.

Colour: an elegant caramel. Bouquet: dominant, rich, fruity hints. The middle is inviting, smooth and sweet and excellently balanced, and the savour lingers.

Best served very cold but not chilled to avoid loss of aromatic qualities; and ideally imbibed in little sips, while inhaling through the nose to capture its fragrant bouquet.

Grape Liquor ‘Tostada' is a great way to round of a special meal, or a friendly get-together, but above all it warms and draws one towards the spirit of Galicia .

This liquor has the power to convey a culture thousands of years in the making that carries embedded in its bosom concepts and attitudes thrown up from the earliest traces of civilization.

Celtic, Roman, Germanic and Arabic roots find touchstones in the origin of the ‘ queimada' (a hot Galician punch made with grape liquor) as far back as the XI or XII centuries, at the time Santiago Cathedral was under construction.

Traditionally, during the preparation of a queimada , perhaps on a cold and cloudy night, demons and witches would be invoked, as the drinkers reminisced about Galicia .