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Aromas and flavors of chocolate, caramel, vanilla, and rich blue fruit.
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The 2022 Palomino El Muelle de Olaso is sourced from the renowned El Corregidor Estate in Jerez. It underwent 80%...
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The wonderful bouquet offers scents of walnuts, dried flowers, dried pears and white raisins. Palate entry is...
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Stewed sweet plum, baked raisin, pie crust, and vanillin lead elegant nose of this refined Cognac. The palate has...
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Excellent, Highly Recommended (Tried & True) - 2020 ULTIMATE SPIRITS CHALLENGE
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Excellent, Highly Recommended (Tried & True) - 2020 ULTIMATE SPIRITS CHALLENGE
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The opening whiffs find scents of pears, grapes, and mature oily, buttery, aromas; in the second sniffing round the...
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Martingale is fresh, fragrant, and refined; offering an exquisite balance of complexity and smoothness. True to...
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Our Estate Bottled Petite Sirah has everything you would expect from this intensely flavored grape. Seductive, heady...
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Our Petite Sirah is full-bodied and rich purple in color. A delicious wine from front to back, leading with aromas...
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Complex and powerful; this wine will amaze and delight you. Heady aromas of mulberries, blackverries and dark plum....
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• 100% Palomino (from several different heritage clones).
• Sourced from 60-plus year-old vines in La Mendoza, a...
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$20.80
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The 2021 Petite Sirah is laced with inky blue/purplish fruit, hard candy, mint, sage and white flowers. Whole...
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Deep purple hue with flavors of rich, dark brambleberry fruit with hints of cocoa powder and espresso beans. Rich,...
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The aroma of this 7-year-old cognac reveals scents of ripe apricot, dried fig, cedar-wood, and vanilla, with a trace...
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Freshly baked spice cake, preserved stone fruits and vanilla are all integrated aromatically. The texture is velvety,...
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Luscious aromas of grapes, apricots, and fruit tarts are sumptuous. Effortlessly silky in the mouth, the fruitiness...
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Light, crisp and mixable if so desired, this brandy is scented with aromas of golden raisin and honey. On the palate,...
Cognac Sherry Mencia Petite Sirah
For over three hundred years, Cognac has enjoyed its reputation as the king of brandies. Indeed, it is widely regarded as the finest drink to be distilled from grapes to be found anywhere in the world, and it is a testament to its producers and the master craftsmen who make it that this reputation has never faltered, and remains as strong as ever to this day.
Cognac is produced solely in the beautiful towns of Cognac and Jarnac, found about fifty miles north of Bordeaux, on the west coast of France. Here, around six thousand grape growers work exclusively in the production of white wine, used for the Cognac distilleries which are scattered throughout the region. The wines are made primarily from the Ugni Blanc or Trebbiano grape - one of the most commonly planted grape varietals in the world - which benefit from the cool, coastal climate and mineral rich soils which are found there. The wines themselves wouldn’t be suitable for drinking in themselves, as they are high in acid and low in alcohol, but this makes them ideal for distillation, and they can impart their wonderful, complex, rich flavors to the brandy.
Cognac varies quite significantly from bottle to bottle, depending on how long it has been aged for, and which appellation it comes from. The Cognac region is split into six separate Crus, all with their own distinctive characteristics, and the spirit can be aged from two years (VS) to six (Hors d’Age and Napoleon) and longer.
Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.
Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.
Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.
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.