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Off the bat you get baking cocoa, charred wood followed by flavors of butter cookies and caramel, with a warming...
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Aromas are elegantly layered with bread yeast, roses, and raspberries. Flavors echo the aromas with tart red berries...
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Fresh and lively, with appealing lemon and strawberry flavors that finish on a steely note. Drink now. 50,000 cases...
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Toasty lemon notes with a slight saline edge. Clean and mineral palate with some autolytic character.
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Smooth and luxurious, this rich and balanced wine layers persimmon and ginger over white cherry and raspberry for a...
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Smooth and luxurious, this rich and balanced wine layers persimmon and ginger over white cherry and raspberry for a...
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Flinty nose, butter, yellow stone fruit, toasted bread. Very refreshing on the palate with fine knit mousse. Very...
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The NV Dundee Hills Brut Evenstad Reserve, a new cuvée from Domaine Serene, is a lovely wine that's similar in style...
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The aromas of pear, spice and tropical fruit lead to well-balanced flavors with a kiss of sweetness. This sparkler...
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Characters of fresh pastry dough, Bartlet pear, lemon curd, and minerality. The crisp acidity and subtle mineral...
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Lemon candy and melon aromas are in the driver's seat, with honeyed toast riding shotgun. There's a lovely burst of...
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Thanks to being on the lees for two and a half years, honeyed, brioche aromas mingle with high-toned apple, pear,...
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Seductive and shimmering, the light rosé color pulls you into its fragrant fruitiness. Strawberries and tart...
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With its juicy, concentrated peach, nectarine and apple flavors, the Célèbre is Dr. Frank's more approachable,...
Champagne Blend Rum 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.
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.