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CHILITROKIA will enhance cocktails by adding savory & spiced notes while also lengthening out the finish and...
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It’s difficult to find something commercially available that contains raw natural ingredients while maintaining...
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Our coffee liqueur is made with bourbon barrel-aged beans roasted by Java Smugglers! It's sweet, boozy, and perfect...
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It’s classic! Sweet, succulent, and intensely apple.
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Taste the sweet tropics and let your imagination take over.
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Delicious, fruity, intense.
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Chill. Shoot. Smile. Just like tasting wild blackberries when you are out for a walk in the woods.
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Buttery. Rich. Classic. Need we say more?
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Like taking a big bite out of a fresh peach, hold the fuzz.
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A cold blast of arctic whoosh...tinge included, this very special sweet and silky treat goes perfect with hot...
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The barrel aged absinthe has a lovely amber hue after spending 4 months in barrels. It is smooth and elegant with...
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This Swiss style absinthe is smooth and elegant floral on the nose and citrusy on the palate with light and a bright...
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Verte has an earthy, grassy flavor with a touch of natural sweetness balanced by a citrus note. It is smoothe and...
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Effortlessly satisfying, Mari Gold is a summertime sipper bursting with flavors of orange blossom. Enjoy neat, on the...
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Stumptown Cold Brew Coffee is what gives this liqueur it’s robust flavor, which is then sweetened with local...
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Undoubtably Alpine, this botanical liqueur shows herbal and vegetal aromas like garrigue and Herbs de Provence. A...
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Treat yourself! Waves of aronia berry, cherry, and raspberry give way to soft floral overtones of lavender and...
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This unusual, spicy-sweet liqueur is made with celery root and celery stalk, fennel, anise, dill and lemon peel. The...
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Apologue continues their exploration of novel botanical liqueurs with Paw Paw, the largest edible fruit native to...
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Built for bartenders, this bittersweet liqueur makes for a refreshing and complex aperitivo. With hints of spice,...
Barbera Liqueur Mavrodaphne United States
For centuries now, the beautiful red grapes of the Barbera varietal have been grown in Italy, where they are prized for their unusual high acid content and low tannins, brought about by their thin skins. The Barbera grape varietal thrives in warmer climates, and has had some success overseas in the new world, where its strongly aromatic flavors of intense hedgerow fruits make it a favorite with wineries and wine drinkers looking for a grape which offers plenty of interesting characteristics. Interestingly, the differences between young and aged wines made from this varietal are quite significant, with younger bottles holding a plethora of berry flavors, including blueberry and raspberry notes, and oak aged wines made from the Barbera grape being much loved for their ability to become extremely complex and spicy, and picking up vanilla flavors from the wood they are barreled in.
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.
Additional Information on Greek Wines
Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?
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.