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Aromas of fresh coconut leap out of the glass along with banana, mango, and madagascar vanilla, with a slight peppery...
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After his mother-in-law asked for a specific Irish Cream for Christmas, Dave took it as a challenge to make something...
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According to legend, Kaldi, an Ethiopian goat herder, took the berries of native coffee trees to a monk, who threw...
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Harvested by hand, from Moon Hare Gardens in Greer, SC, Vicario’s estate grown herb Artemisia dracunculus,...
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Vicario Herba Luisa Liqueur is crafted from fresh, estate grown Lemon Verbena (Aloysia triphylla) from Vicario’s...
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Monastery brew houses and elixir distillers from different religious orders have been in existence all over Europe...
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Dark, inky brown, with a savory, herbaceous scent. The flavor surprises with a spicy burst up front, with leads to...
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Olive leaf liqueur has an ancient history—it was given as a tonic to the visitors of a famous Umbrian temple and...
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Historically, quinine extract was made with chinchona bark to ward against malaria and other ailments. Named after...
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Visciole di Cantiano, an antique variety of wild sour cherry, grows wild on Vicario’s family farm property at Villa...
Ice Wine Liqueur Rum United States South Carolina
It is difficult to categorize rum as a single spirit, because of all the spirits found around the globe, rum is perhaps the one which varies most dramatically from place to place. Clear, white rum - a favorite for cocktail drinkers - is perhaps the most prevalent example found today, but there is a whole world of darker, spiced and molasses-rich rums to explore, thanks to the fascinating history and wide reach this drink has.
Rum came about during the colonial times, when sugar was a huge and world-changing business. The molasses left over from the sugar production industry could easily be distilled into a delicious alcoholic drink, and provided extra income for the sugar traders. Before long, it became a favorite of sailors and transatlantic merchants, and it quickly spread across the Caribbean and Latin America, where it remains highly popular today.
The production of rum is a basic and simple one - you take your molasses, add yeast and water, and then ferment and distil the mixture. However, as is often the case, the devil is in the detail. The variation in yeasts found from place to place, the maturation period, the length of the fermentation and the type of stills and barrels used provide the rainbow-colored variation that gives rum its spectrum of styles and characteristics.
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.