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Just a touch of peat leads to coco and vanilla bean. Hints of peach pairs with baking spices with floralness and...
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Art & Decadence is built on malt whisky from the Balmenach Distillery, finished separately for almost a year in not...
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Hedonism 2024 contains the last of our stocks of grain whiskies distilled in the 1990s, a period when some of the...
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For our third release in the Extinct Blends Quartet, Metropolis, we step into the throng of a striving city through...
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A whiff of mealy, floury apples, pear, candied lemon peel, and fruit teas, this is certainly light and fruity,...
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The name says it all: This is a spice-forward blended Scotch for sure. The bold aroma evokes fresh apple and spice,...
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An intensely smoky initial bouquet which then becomes creamy, concentrated, citrusy, mash-like, and very malty. At...
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To highlight the art of American coopering even further, we have finished part of the whisky used for this special...
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Based on a bespoke blend made for the New York City restaurant The Spaniard, this permanent addition to the Compass...
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Well-structured aromas with floral top notes, seasoned oak, vanilla, layered peat smoke, dried banana chip, and...
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This subtly aromatic blended whisky invokes dried red and yellow fruits atop fresh oatmeal. Lean in the mouth, it is...
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The very first smooth & mellow Whisky of the Cutty Sark family. With its inimitable Whisky taste profile, the iconic...
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Possibly one of the best-balanced whiskies around—which is what blending is all about—this honey-hued Scotch...
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This golden blended Scotch is remarkably complex, showing creamy vanilla, crème brûlée and almond before tapering...
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Golden amber color. Aromas of toasted biscuit with raisins, charcoal briquettes, dried apricot, and grilled zucchini...
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Blended Scotch Coda Di Volpe Mencia Savatiano
Savatiano is probably Greece's most well known and most widely grown grape varietal, as it is the primary grape used in the production of Retsina, where the fermenting juices of the Savatiano varietal are flavored with pine resin in order to make this distinctive and famous wine. One of the reasons for the wide cultivation of this grape is due to its hardiness, and resistance to drought conditions. In the sun-drenched and dry, rocky Greek landscapes, this makes it an ideal vine to grow for wine-makers who require a strong and bounteous yield each year.
However, there are plenty of examples of Greek white wines which use the Savatiano grape but withhold from the addition the pine resin flavoring, allowing the true characteristics of this varietal to shine through. The result is often very pleasing indeed, with Savatiano grapes generally producing extremely well balanced and rounded white wines, with a juicily fruity flavor. Their aromas can vary quite a lot, with many Savatiano wines bearing the fragrance of citrus fruits, and also occasionally having a strong floral aroma reminiscent of elder and rose. Due to the relatively low acidity of Savatiano grapes, the wines which use them (including Retsina) generally bolster themselves with the addition of smaller quantities of more acidic varieties, such as Assyrtiko or Rhoditis, in order to improve their sometimes weak structure.
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?