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$25.64
$26.99
12 bottles:
$20.97
Made with a blend of sugar cane “from eight different countries” in the Caribbean and South America, the bottle...
750ml
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$31.56
$33.22
Made with a blend of sugar cane “from eight different countries” in the Caribbean and South America, the bottle...
750ml
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$47.78
$50.30
6 bottles:
$39.76
Copper color. Aromas and flavors of molasses cookies, caramelized lime, toffee, and cherry cola with a slightly...
750ml
Bottle:
$47.78
$50.30
6 bottles:
$39.76
Copper color. Aromas and flavors of molasses cookies, caramelized lime, toffee, and cherry cola with a slightly...
750ml
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$11.94
$13.01
An excellent deep, spicy, intriguing red wine from Sicily, the 2023 Nero d’Avolo is a tank-fermented and aged, dark...
750ml
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$17.80
$18.74
12 bottles:
$14.81
Cane Run delivers a superior drinking experience with its aroma of sweet, light brown sugar. It tastes of delicate...
700ml
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$32.39
$34.09
6 bottles:
$28.81
Made from traditional Jamaican rums infused with natural spices and aged in oak casks, Canerock Jamaican Spiced Rum...
375ml
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$12.11
$12.75
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$10.40
Parrot Bay is a premium merge of fresh, rich flavors with a light, crisp Puerto Rican rum. This rum is designed to...
750ml
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$23.55
$24.79
12 bottles:
$17.80
Parrot Bay is a premium merge of fresh, rich flavors with a light, crisp Puerto Rican rum. This rum is designed to...
750ml
Bottle:
$23.55
$24.79
12 bottles:
$15.72
Parrot Bay is a premium merge of fresh, rich flavors with a light, crisp Puerto Rican rum. This rum is designed to...
750ml
Bottle:
$23.55
$24.79
12 bottles:
$15.72
Parrot Bay is a premium merge of fresh, rich flavors with a light, crisp Puerto Rican rum. This rum is designed to...
750ml
Bottle:
$24.79
12 bottles:
$15.72
Parrot Bay is a premium merge of fresh, rich flavors with a light, crisp Puerto Rican rum. This rum is designed to...
750ml
Bottle:
$23.55
$24.79
12 bottles:
$15.72
Parrot Bay is a premium merge of fresh, rich flavors with a light, crisp Puerto Rican rum. This rum is designed to...
750ml
Bottle:
$25.82
$27.18
12 bottles:
$21.95
Very fragrant fresh pineapple aroma, with a ripe & juicy pineapple taste profile. Its slight notes of molasses and...
1.0Ltr
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$13.88
$14.61
Captain Morgan Apple Smash blends our Caribbean rum with a burst of green apple flavor that is sure to be a favorite...
750ml
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$27.14
$28.57
12 bottles:
$18.99
Captain Morgan Apple Smash blends our Caribbean rum with a burst of green apple flavor that is sure to be a favorite...
750ml
Bottle:
$32.66
$34.38
12 bottles:
$26.51
A firm favorite, this spiced rum is specially crafted to taste great with Cola or as a shot.
1.0Ltr
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$23.99
It's become fashionable to hate on the Captain, but the original in the spiced-rum category has a pronounced vanilla...
Ice Wine Mavrodaphne Nero D'avola Rum
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
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Italy’s largest island, Sicily, has a wine producing history that can put most other European regions to shame. It was producing quality wines before the days of the Roman empire, and even the Ancient Greeks were not the first to cultivate vines on the island. For as long as anyone knows, the key grape varietal of Sicily has been Nero d’Avola, the beautiful, deep blue skinned grape which produces the region’s characterful, powerful red wines. While in the past, Nero d’Avola was mainly used as a blending grape, due to its deep color and intensely full body, it is today being increasingly celebrated as a single varietal wine grape, and is perfect for those who like their wines boisterous, loud and strong.
Nero d’Avola is grown pretty much everywhere on Sicily, as demand for wines made from this grape have never been higher. Despite its power and body, it is quite a versatile grape - it can be aged in oak barrels, which produces a dense and dark wine which puts its intense characteristics to good use, but it is also often drunk quite young, which allows its jammy, plummy character to come forward. It is also used to make rose wines in some appellations of Sicily, demonstrating a softer side to this otherwise heavy, deeply flavorful grape.
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.