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$63.16
A classic, peated single malt, capturing the spirit of Islay and the warmth found in the people, the land and the...
750ml
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Golden and bright in the glass, the aroma suggests caramel apples. The palate shows plenty of oak and spice, opening...
750ml
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$62.57
6 bottles:
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This whisky is elegantly polished by the additional white wine cask maturation. Ripe peaches, nectarines and creamy...
750ml
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$98.22
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Warm rolled oats, baked peach, honeysuckle, and orange marmalade waft from the glass with a touch of sea smoke. Soft...
750ml
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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...
700ml
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Developing with ripe strawberries, drizzled in Highland Honey and delicately sharpened with notes of blackcurrant....
700ml
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With notes of Highland honey, wild strawberries and ripe peaches warmed by the sun - the aroma builds with cocoa...
750ml
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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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$125.92
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A toasty nose with aromas of hazelnut, toffee and sugar cookies. Spicier on the palate with plenty of cinnamon,...
750ml
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Amber color. Aromas and flavors of toast with orange marmalade, green olive, snicker bar, salted pecans, honey, and...
750ml
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96-100 Intriguing and challenging bouquet of aromas of roasted nuts, old leather, black pepper, old oak and dried...
750ml
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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...
750ml
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$64.99
Dark amber color. Aromas of roasted peanuts, molasses cookies, coconut, caramel, and dark chocolate with a satiny,...
750ml
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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...
375ml
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Floral nose. Waxy (candlewax, crayons), then spicy, fruity notes emerge, in particular raisin and plum, becomes more...
750ml
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$62.22
One of Islay’s classic malts, this whisky evokes ashes of a campfire on a stony beach. The maritime and smoke...
750ml
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COLOUR: Sunset Gold. AROMA: On the nose, rising aromas of herbal pine and fennel flow into sharp notes of citrusy...
750ml
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An enticing nose reveals pronounced peat complemented by seamlessly integrated wood notes. On the palate, the...
Gamay Grappa Pecorino 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.
Like so many of the great spirits of Europe, Grappa was born from a need to make resources go that little bit further, to eke out the last drop of flavor and potential from the crops of winemakers. Indeed, Italian vintners invented Grappa as a way to make use of the pomace - leftover grape skins, stems, pulp and seeds - which remained after the juice was extracted from the fruit needed to make wine. Over the centuries, the process was refined, and the distillation of Grappa became an art in itself. Today, top Grappa producers use a range of state of the art equipment, from continuous stills to pot stills, to manufacture a wide variety of Grappas, each with their own distinct characteristics.
Most of us know Grappa from our local Italian restaurants, where it is commonly served as a digestif. However, in the twenty first century, there is a high interest in unique, boutique Grappas, which showcase the talent of the distillers through a range of interesting qualities. Grappa can be aged in oak, in which case it takes on a beautiful golden color, quite different from the clear Grappas we are most familiar with. The high end Grappas are a world away from the harsh spirit many of us have encountered, and have a smooth, gentle quality which can be nothing short of a revelation.