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COLOR: Wine of very elegant red color.
BOUQUET: Intense aroma, with fruity hints of ripe plums, cherry jam and notes...
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A classic, peated single malt, capturing the spirit of Islay and the warmth found in the people, the land and the...
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Golden and bright in the glass, the aroma suggests caramel apples. The palate shows plenty of oak and spice, opening...
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This whisky is elegantly polished by the additional white wine cask maturation. Ripe peaches, nectarines and creamy...
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Warm rolled oats, baked peach, honeysuckle, and orange marmalade waft from the glass with a touch of sea smoke. Soft...
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Lush, bold, with a dominance of fruit. The wine's influence adds an air of opulence & a deepening of intriguing red...
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A luscious nose with an emphasis of bruised and crushed honeycrisp apple, vanilla bean, warm honey, and sweet cigar...
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Developing with ripe strawberries, drizzled in Highland Honey and delicately sharpened with notes of blackcurrant....
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With notes of Highland honey, wild strawberries and ripe peaches warmed by the sun - the aroma builds with cocoa...
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Aged in oak and former Sherry casks, this enticing Scotch has a ripe red-apple scent and rich salted caramel and...
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A toasty nose with aromas of hazelnut, toffee and sugar cookies. Spicier on the palate with plenty of cinnamon,...
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Amber color. Aromas and flavors of toast with orange marmalade, green olive, snicker bar, salted pecans, honey, and...
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96-100 Intriguing and challenging bouquet of aromas of roasted nuts, old leather, black pepper, old oak and dried...
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#5 Top 20, 2019. The yin to Aberlour A’bunadh’s yang, this cask-strength single malt is matured entirely in...
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Dark amber color. Aromas of roasted peanuts, molasses cookies, coconut, caramel, and dark chocolate with a satiny,...
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This whisky was distilled in 1999 and laid to rest in first-fill sherry hogshead #3089 for 21 years before being...
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One of Islay’s classic malts, this whisky evokes ashes of a campfire on a stony beach. The maritime and smoke...
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COLOUR: Sunset Gold. AROMA: On the nose, rising aromas of herbal pine and fennel flow into sharp notes of citrusy...
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An enticing nose reveals pronounced peat complemented by seamlessly integrated wood notes. On the palate, the...
Gamay Mencia Primitivo Single Malt Scotch
The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.
The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.
As with many European grape varietals, there is some debate regarding the precise origins of the Primitivo grape. Most people now agree that it probably came from Croatia, where it is still used widely in the production of red wine, and it known as Tribidrag. However, today it is a grape most commonly associated with the powerful red wines of Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot, where the intense sunshine and brisk Mediterranean breezes produce grapes of remarkable character and balance. Primitivo is a dark grape, known for producing intense, inky, highly tannic wines, most notably the naturally sweet Dolce Naturale and the heavy and complex Primitivo di Manduria wines. Primitivo tends to be naturally very high in both tannin and alcohol, making it ideal for both barrel and cellar ageing, which brings out its more rounded and interesting features.
Primitivo is not the easiest grape to grow or manage, and it has had something of a difficult century. Indeed, by the 1990s, there was little interest in Puglian wines in general, and winemakers were neglecting their Primitivo vineyards and looking to other, more commercially viable varietals. However, the last decade has seen this grape come well and truly back into fashion, with new techniques and a heightened interest in native Italian grape varietals bringing Primitivo back into the spotlight. It is now widely loved for its intensity and ability to be paired with strongly flavored foods.