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Black Maple Hill Single Barrel Rye 18 Year Old 750ml

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750ml
country
United States
region
Kentucky
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The 18-year-old Black Maple Hill Single Barrel, came from CVI Brands, a distributor in San Carlos, Calif., that forages among the world's distilleries, looking for well-aged barrels of whiskeys that have been set aside for some reason and that the distiller is willing to sell. But even with CVI's connections, it's not easy to turn up aged barrels of rye. ''It's becoming impossible now,'' said Paul Joseph, CVI's president, who guards his sources carefully. He refused to say who produced the Black Maple Hill, a complex, rich whiskey that combines fruity ginger and caramel aromas with a spicy Sichuan peppercorn quality. ''If I told you, I'd have to kill you,'' he said. Fair enough. Aficionados spend an enormous amount of time trying to trace the origin of whiskeys sold by independent bottlers like CVI. Fortunately for their search, not that many distillers make rye whiskey, nor did they 18 years ago, and most of those distilleries are in Kentucky, where rye is but an afterthought to the big-business bourbons. (The New York Times, November 29, 2006)
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Black Maple Hill Single Barrel Rye 18 Year Old 750ml

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Producer Black Maple Hill
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Country: United States

For three hundred years now, the United States has been leading the New World in wine production, both in regards to quantity and quality. Wine is actually produced in all fifty states across the country, with California leading the way by an enormous margin. Indeed, as much as eighty-nine percent of all wines to come out of the United States are produced in California, where the fertile soils and sloping mountain sides, coupled with the long, hot summers provide ideal conditions for producing high quality, European style red, white and rosé wines. With over a million acres of the country under vine, the United States sits comfortably as the fourth largest wine producer in the world, where imported grape varietals from all over the Old World are processed using a successful blend of traditional and contemporary techniques.