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Allow me to introduce you to Charbay and to explain to you our process of winemaking & distillation.
The four of us - my wife, Susan, together with our son Marko and his wife, Jenni and I - handle the entire operation.
Our primary expertise and interests are in fermentation, distillation and personal hospitality.
Before we get into details of Charbay's winemaking & distillation let me first fill you in on a little bit of history of distillation.
A Brief History of Distillation
Since antiquity, the perfumes, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, along with the alchemy for gold and elixir of life, were among the prime-time fascinations of the learned ones, who at the beginning of the second millenium ultimately gave us the spirits of modern times.
Egyptians and Greeks distilled plants, spices and other matter (sea water). The Romans eventually named the prrocess "de-stillare", Latin for "to drip or trickle down" as the distillate trickled down from the still. Arabs however, discovered alcohol distillation in the early middle ages (1050 - 1150). |