Brandy Gran Duque de Alba produced by Bodegas Williams & Humbert has been included in the “Top Ten Trending Brands” after a survey organised by the prestigeous Drinks International magazine of the best bars in the world. The results are the culmination of a questionnaire of 106 bars from all around the world, each cherry-picked to take part based on their performance in global bar awards.

The managers of these establishments have voted and rated brands of beverage according to two categories: those that sell the most, and those that are the most fashionable and gaining more and more protagonism in their establishments: the Top 10 Best Sellers Brands and the Top 10 Trending Brands.

It is the second category where the most select establishments in the world have included Brandy Gran Duque de Alba.

Brandy Gran Duque de Alba is a wine spirit. Its raw material is the result of the distillation of good, balanced wines and the same aging process as that of sherry, the dynamic system known as “criaderas and soleras”. Wood has a fundamental role to play in the aging process of Brandy Gran Duque de Alba. Not only because of the American oak casks, whose porosity is the most suitable, but above all due to the fact that they have previously contained some of the extraordinary sherries of Bodegas Williams & Humbert.

The brandy will take on unique characteristics and nuances depending on the type of wine previously aged in the cask: a very old 15-year oloroso for GDA, Pedro Ximénez ‘Don Guido’ 20 years for GDA XO and Palo Cortado ‘Dos Cortados’ 20 years for GDA Oro. The aging period also plays an important role in the production of Brandy Gran Duque de Alba: 10 years for GDA, 15 for GDA XO and 20 for GDA Oro. Brandies that combine a complexity of flavours and aromas that only time has been able to assemble in such a harmonious way.