http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/st...798163,00.html

--> Grappa does, indeed, carry the odour of a heavy hangover,
--> the sort that forces stinking, unprocessed alcohol out
--> through your pores in an all-over body burp. Apparently,
--> Italo Calvino thought it appropriate only for "defrocked
--> priests, unemployed bookkeepers and husbands that have been
--> cuckolded". Perhaps the kindest thing I've heard said about
--> it - and this must be the extremeness of the alcohol level -
--> is that it smells like skin-toner.

I'm glad I read this *after* the trip to Italy.

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