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Powerful, brooding, and rich aromas of currents, dark fruit, and cassis precede this full-bodied wine.
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Sugar Moon Maple Whiskey Bourbon is an adage to the last full moon of winter which signals the start of maple sugar...
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With our background in brewing, we’re able to coax the subtleties and complex nature of malt into a whiskey that is...
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This bold and flavorful sipping whiskey is made from New York State-grown malt smoked for eight hours over Scottish...
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This has an herbal and floral nose, complemented by aromas of black cherry. The flavors are layered with tones of...
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Iron Smoke Distillery’s original and award winning Rattlesnake Rosie’s “Forbidden Apple Pie” whiskey recipe....
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One characteristic contributing to the great success of Ciel du Cheval Vineyard is the high pH found in the loam...
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This supple, bold Cabernet Sauvignon is loaded with red and black fruit flavors as well as plum, mocha and cedar...
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A deeply violet wine that overflows with raspberry, cassis, and cocoa notes. It is textured with many layers showing...
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All Cabernet from a great vineyard on Red Mountain, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Ciel Du Cheval sports a vivid purple...
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Aromas of ripe red cherry, red licorice, redcurrant and suede. Full-bodied with fine tannins. Rich fruit with...
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I loved the 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Ciel Du Cheval, a pure, balanced, elegant 2020 with lots of character. Cassis,...
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Aromas of baked cherries, plums and fresh violets. Full-bodied with fine, chewy tannins. Rich. Clear herbal...
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The nose opens with ripe huckleberry, black currants, and blackberry jam, supported by a backdrop of fennel and...
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Can there ever be too much of a good thing? That's how this beautifully dark & rich Cabernet makes us feel. Ruby red...
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The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon comes all from the Klipsun Vineyard on Red Mountain and is a blend of 92% Cabernet...
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This has a perfumed nose of lavender, nutmeg, chocolate cherries, dark raspberries and blackcurrants. Firm and...
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Expressive and precise, with deep currant, licorice and dark mocha flavors that take on structure toward...
American Whiskey Cabernet Sauvignon United States New York Washington State
The United States of America is a country of great cultural diversity, influenced by migrating nations from across the world. As such, its whiskey industry is a fascinating and complex one, which represents the range of regional differences found there.
The Irish were the original pioneers of American whiskey, and when they emigrated in their thousands from the old country, they brought their skills, knowledge and distillation techniques with them, to give them something to remind each other of home in the New World. This is why American whiskey goes by the Irish spelling, with the additional ‘e’, and why many traditional American whiskies closely resemble the original Irish style.
Today, there are several different types of American whiskey, and the styles and production techniques are now set out in US federal law, cementing a set of characteristics and production methods to preserve and protect the industry.
Corn whiskey, which is made from a minimum 80% corn in the mash and aged for a short period, is probably the most historic of the American whiskey styles, but others like rye whiskey, which is made from a minimum of 51% rye and aged in charred barrels, are growing in popularity among a new generation of drinkers looking for something unique, interesting and independently produced. Alongside these styles, we find Tennessee whiskey, which uses maple charcoal for sweeter notes, the softer wheat whiskies, the world-dominating Bourbon whiskies, and others which are peculiar to specific states and regions.
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.
New York state has a wine history which stretches back to the mid-17th century, when Dutch settlers first began cultivating grape vines in the Hudson Valley. Since then, the wine industry of New York has grown from strength to strength, mixing the old with the new as wineries continue to experiment with modern techniques alongside their traditional heritage. Indeed, certain wineries in New York state hold a claim to being amongst the oldest and most well established in the New World, with at least one dating back over three hundred and fifty years. New York state is responsible for a relatively small range of grape varietals, due to its cooler, damper climate, but many varietals such as Riesling and Seyval Blanc thrive in such conditions and produce wines a of singular quality.
Since it began in the 1820s, wine-production in Washington state has gone from strength to strength, with many of the finest United States wines coming out over the past twenty years hailing from this region. Today, the state is the second largest US producer of wines, behind California, with over forty thousand acres under vine. The state itself is split into two distinct wine regions, separated by the Cascade Range, which casts an important rain shadow over much of the area. As such, the vast majority of vines are grown and cultivated in the dry, arid desert-like area in the eastern half of the state, with the western half producing less than one percent of the state's wines where it is considerably wetter. Washington state is famed for producing many of the most accessible wines of the country, with Merlot and Chardonnay varietal grapes leading the way, and much experimentation with other varietals characterizing the state's produce in the twenty-first century.