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The 2022 White Wine Helluva Vineyard is a blend of Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir and Gewurztraminer. The nose features...
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Ashes & Diamonds Blanc is a fully ripe and textured, yet bright, zesty and supremely age-worthy blend of Sauvignon...
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Rounded aromas of pear, bright citrus and jasmine make for a floral nose on this bottling. The palate dries up very...
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Following in the tradition of Alsace, this Edelzwicker bottling is a blend of Riesling, Gewurztraminer, and Finger...
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The Result is a wine that is both fresh and rich, a rare combination that appeals to all the parts of the palate. The...
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An effervescent wine that refreshes and delights the palate with classic Riesling flavor.
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Aromas of stone fruit blossom and fresh cut grass lead to flavors of gooseberry, pineapple and Gravenstein apple....
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Chupacabra Blanca is our white Shape Shifter Kitchen sink Blend from the Buhl Memorial Vineyard, Willcox, in the...
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Malvasia Bianca, Chardonnay Formerly from Buhl Memorial Vineyard in the Kansas Settlement of Cochise County, AZ. and...
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When selecting grapes for this wine, we were particularly conscious of the intensity of the fruit, the acid balance,...
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This delicious blend of five white wine grapes is one of the best of its type from California. It’s a complex...
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Dazzles of Light white blend is a new addition to our portfolio. We wanted to make a bright and springy, textural...
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Grapes are destemmed and co-fermented in 1.5-ton fermenters, no sulfur at crush, and fermentation kicks off natively....
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92-94 Not yet bottled, the 2022 Chaleur Blanc will be terrific, and this wine is consistently one of the finest...
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“Only Always” is our little love letter to the famed field blends of Alsace and Austria. Composed entirely of...
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57% Pinot gris, 43% Grüner veltliner, co-fermented with 9 days of skin contact. Fermentation was completed in used...
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Sauvignon Blanc and Roussanne (Slope 23, 1900 ft) from Renaissance Vineyard. Sauvignon Blanc harvested first in early...
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Call it orange or skin contact or skin fermented, or amber as we are doing here - these refreshing wines with a...
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Riesling and Gewürztraminer (20% direct press, 10% skin contact). The fruit was sourced from an organically farmed...
Champagne Blend Petite Sirah Rum White Blend 2022 United States
The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.
Petite Sirah was first brought from France to America in the 1880s. It later went on to become one of the only grapes to make it through the devastating Phylloxera virus in the 1890s, both World Wars, and the Great Depression. During Prohibition, it was a main ingredient used to make sacramental wines. In fact, through the 1960s it was a major blending grape in a number of the finest wines produced in California.
By itself, a bottle of Petite Sirah usually has no problem making a quick impression on consumers. With a large amount of natural color and tannins, wines made with the grape commonly feature intensive sweet fruit characteristics like fresh raspberry or blackberry jam, black pepper spice, and plenty of backbone or structure.
There are a number of different styles available. Some concentrate on highlighting fresh, fruity flavors; others are bigger, more voluptuous; and it keeps going up the ladder until you reach the powerful, more machismo-style category.
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.