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double distillation

From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails

is a common spirits distillation process incorporating two runs through a still (usually a pot still), with the second yielding a distillate that has a significantly higher concentration of ethanol than the first. See also distillate; distillation, process;, ethanol.

This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).