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Golden and bright in the glass, the aroma suggests caramel apples. The palate shows plenty of oak and spice, opening...
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This whisky is elegantly polished by the additional white wine cask maturation. Ripe peaches, nectarines and creamy...
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Warm rolled oats, baked peach, honeysuckle, and orange marmalade waft from the glass with a touch of sea smoke. Soft...
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Lush, bold, with a dominance of fruit. The wine's influence adds an air of opulence & a deepening of intriguing red...
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A luscious nose with an emphasis of bruised and crushed honeycrisp apple, vanilla bean, warm honey, and sweet cigar...
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Developing with ripe strawberries, drizzled in Highland Honey and delicately sharpened with notes of blackcurrant....
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With notes of Highland honey, wild strawberries and ripe peaches warmed by the sun - the aroma builds with cocoa...
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Matured in American oak ex-bourbon & double-fired American oak casks, bringing elegant complexity and warmth Natural...
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This late-night expression is rich and autumnal, developed and amplified to unexpected heights, while staying...
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The aromatics seamlessly marry notes of sweet malt, toasted grain, tea biscuits, heather, honey and accents of sea...
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Possesses a gold hue. Honey and honeysuckle aromas dominate the nose. The palate shows warming flavors of sweet...
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This whisky shows a delightful bouquet of malted milk chocolate, dried peach, white flowers, baked honey, and French...
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Rolled oats and honey give way to subtle touches of warm oak, raspberry seed, and candied orange peel. The palate...
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Nose: Hints of dried fruits, Oloroso and almonds. Palate: Spicy Christmas cake, sweet golden syrup with a touch of...
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Nose: Herbal and grassy with sweetened smoke. Palate: Chocolate oak over spicy, earthy smokiness. Complexity rolls...
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Attractive wheat field gold color. Bouquet features roasted grain nuttiness, toasted malt, cigarette ash, new...
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New in 2016, this is an NAS entry-level bottling for the brand, matured in bourbon barrels before spending a...
Mourvedre Petite Sirah Robola Single Malt Scotch Scotland Highland
Mourvèdre is a fascinating and ancient grape varietal, thought to have been introduced to Spain by the ancient Phoenicians over two thousand years ago. Since then, it has found a home in many regions of France, and has gone on to be a key grape varietal in the New World, where it is often blended with Grenache and Syrah varietals to make a beautifully rounded and balanced red wine. The Mourvèdre grape itself is renowned for holding a complex set of flavours, which are often described as meaty or gamey, with plenty of bramble fruit notes. As such, they are often served with dark meats, and are enjoyed in many countries across the globe. The grapes are not the easiest to cultivate, as they require plenty of sunshine alongside well irrigated soil. However, their quality and unique attributes mean that wineries all over the globe continue to persevere with this special varietal.
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.
In the mountains of Cephalonia, the mineral rich soils assist in the growing of one of the finest of Greece's white grape varietals – the Robola grape. These noble yellowish grapes are notable for the wines they produce, which generally contain summer fruits, peach and citrus aromas, coupled with flavors which extend beyond the usual range of white wines, revealing smoky and mineral notes, and a lengthy, lemony after-taste. These fine characteristics helped the regions it is grown in gain AOC status, and wine-makers in this area have many generations of practice in bringing out the elegant and subtle characteristics of this grape.
Robola, and the other wines of Cephalonia have a long and illustrious history, being mentioned even in ancient epic poems such as Homer's Iliad. However, it was the Venetians who first recognized the great potential of Robola grapes, which quickly became the focus for the areas wine-makers and tradesmen. Nowadays, Robola wines act as an excellent example of a refined Greek dry white wine, which can be either drank as a light and refreshing summer aperitif, or alongside grilled white meats, salads, or white fish. Robola wines, as a rule, do not age particularly well, and it is highly recommended that bottles are drunk young, within two years of bottling. By doing so, you can enjoy the unique characteristics of this remarkable wine, complete with the balanced combination of chalky, smoky citrus flavors and delicate peach aromas which typify the finest examples of Robola varietal wines.
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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For fans of fine scotch whisky, there’s nowhere quite like the Highlands. This single malt whisky region is the largest in Scotland, covering a vast swathe of the country and providing a great deal of variation, and both subtle and dramatic differences in style, flavor, aroma and character from bottle to bottle. This isn’t surprising, when you consider how varied the landscape of the Highlands is. Here, you find towering mountains, misty moorlands, urban centres and rugged coastlines, each with their own distilleries creating their own interpretations of single malt scotch whisky.
Due to it being such a large region, the Highlands produces around twenty-five percent of all Scotland’s whiskies. Thirty distilleries are still operating in the Highlands, continuing a set of whisky traditions that stretches back centuries, and always innovating and experimenting in order to achieve the best expression of their unique surroundings. Great pride is taken in maintaining traditional techniques, and alongside state of the art equipment, Highland scotch is forever pushing the possibilities and reaching new heights.
Highland scotch is difficult to pigeonhole and characterize with a set of flavors or features, because there is so much variety between the distilleries in the north, and those in the southern and central parts of this region. However, the most common flavor profiles include rich, fruit-cakey flavors, smoky notes from the production techniques which include burning peat, and dried fruit, oak and fragrant heather.