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TASTE: Slightly buttery and nutty with nuances of honey and caramel. AROMA: Pleasant honey notes with hints of...
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TASTE: Balance of rich jammy fruit and acidity, with a tannin structure finish. AROMA: Creamy vanilla notes with...
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TASTE: Sweet, tart, and smooth with hints of peach. AROMA: Pleasant floral notes with hints of tropical fruits.
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Light, floral and clean, this vodka tastes smooth even at room temperature. The secret lies in combining spirits made...
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The deep, sweet orange and honeyed-floral fragrance is the first signal this vodka will be special. The flavors are...
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Floral with notes of crisp apple, sweet pea blossoms, and a hint of oak on the nose, with a silky and soft mouthfeel...
750ml
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No pretenses or artifices, this spirit is a vehicle that delivers an authentic, fresh habanero experience. There’s...
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Sultry notes of briny black olives and cumin on the nose can lead one to presumptions of what to do with this spirit....
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Full and floral on the nose with subtle aromas of vanilla bean. Mild and smooth on the palate with understated,...
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Clear color. Citrusy aromas and flavors of nectarine and mandarin with a round, crisp, dryish light-to-medium body...
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Excellent, Highly Recommended (Great Value) - 2020 ULTIMATE SPIRITS CHALLENGE
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Excellent, Highly Recommended (Great Value) - 2020 ULTIMATE SPIRITS CHALLENGE
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New Amsterdam® Apple offers a refreshing, crisp profile layered with sweet, bright apple flavors. The complexity of...
375ml
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Clear color. Tropical aromas and flavors of coconut flakes, coconut cream, lime sorbet, and pineapple cake with a...
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Clear color. Tropical aromas and flavors of coconut flakes, coconut cream, lime sorbet, and pineapple cake with a...
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New Amsterdam® Grapefruit offers a refreshing, crisp profile layered with sweet, bright grapefruit flavors. The...
Ice Wine Mavrodaphne Vodka United States California
In the Archaea region, high in the Northern Peloponnese mountains, the predominant grape varietal grown is the prized Mavrodaphne. Meaning 'Black Laurel', the Mavrodaphne grapes have extremely dark skins, and ripen slowly under the Greek sunshine, helped by the mineral rich soils the vines thrive in. This grape varietal is mostly used to produce the opaque, inky fortified wine of the same name, which is popular all over Greece and elsewhere in the world. This fortified wine allows the grapes to really show off their complex and fascinating flavors, which range from a rich marzipan to flavors of bitter chocolate, sweet coffee, dried figs and prunes, as well as plenty of jammy fruit notes.
Mavrodaphne is produced in a traditional method which involves leaving the grape juice exposed to the sun in large vats, before having its fermentation halted by the addition of various distillates taken from previous successful vintages. This mixture contains plenty of residual sugar, which gives the end result its characteristic sticky sweetness, and also helps with the next fermentation process, which typically takes place in large underground cellars. The final product is a heady drink, absolutely bursting with unusual, rich and sweet flavors and carried in a dark and slightly viscous Port-like liquid.
Mavrodaphne grapes are also used for the production of still red wines, but are generally blended with varietals such as Agiorgitiko or imported grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon. Mavrodaphne grapes are excellent for mellowing more acidic varieties, and producing deliciously rounded wines, which have taken the international market by storm in recent decades.
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Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
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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.
California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.