Brandy Gran Duque de Alba is a wine spirit. Its raw material product of the distillation of good, well-balanced wines and its ageing process the same as used to produce Sherry: a complex "dynamic" system known as "criaderas" and "soleras" which is exclusive to the Region.
Brandy Gran Duque de Alba was firts launched in 1945. Documents in the possession of the Medina family, current owners of Bodegas Williams & Humbert, describe how the bodega's wine merchant in Madrid at that time was a great friend of the Seventh Duke of Alba, Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y... Falcó, and prior to the launch of an exclusive brandy asked if he could baptize it with his name. After tasting it, the aristocrat was pleasantly impressed and suggested that for such a noble product it would be far more appropiate to use the name of his ancestor the Great Duke of Alba, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, who had ennobled the House of Alba and was an important historic figure. This appears in a written document which autrorizes the brandy to use the name.
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