Brix Chocolate, Medium Dark Chocolate
Tasting Note: You’ll see why this chocolate is called Brix when you take it out the packet and find it resembles a brick of 24-karat chocolate gold.[Read more]
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Fields Family Wines Zinfandel 2014 – An Elegant Zinfandel with Welcome Constraint & Complexity
Fields Family Wines, Zinfandel 2014, Stampede Vineyard, Lodi, California
Tasting Note: On the red zinfandel, flavor-intensity scale, this elegant zinfandel provides welcome restraint while delivering complex aromatics and flavors that underscore fine winemaking.[Read more]
Blandy’s 5 Years Old Sercial Dry Madeira – Pronounced-Intensity Flavors
Blandy’s, 5 Years Old Sercial Dry Madeira, Portugal
Tasting Note: Madeira comes in various levels of sweetness and Sercial is the driest of the styles made from one of the four noble grape varieties Sercial is grown on the northern side of Madeira on terraced vineyards at high altitudes.[Read more]
La Bastarda Pinot Grigio 2017 – Stands Shoulders Above the Mass of Flavorless Pinot Grigio in the Marketplace
La Bastarda, Pinot Grigio 2017, Sicilia IGT, Sicily, Italy
Tasting Note: A good-value pinot grigio with more flavor intensity than your average Italian pinot grigio – especially at the price point.[Read more]
R.L. Buller & Son Fine Muscat – Experience an Australian “Sticky”
R.L. Buller & Son, Fine Muscat, Victoria, Australia
Tasting Note: In Australia they call fortified muscat wines “stickies,” and when you taste this concentrated, solera-blended, oxidatively-aged fortified wine you’ll experience the concentrated, fruit flavors this style of wine is known for.[Read more]
Quinta Das Carvalhas Late Bottled Vintage Port 2012 – An LBV Gem
Quinta Das Carvalhas, Late Bottled Vintage (LBV) Port 2012, Portugal
Tasting Note: If you enjoy Late Bottle Vintage Port this one is a gem.[Read more]
Quinta Das Carvalhas Vintage Port 2013 – Proves You Don’t Have to Wait for Vintage Port to Age
Quinta Das Carvalhas, Vintage Port 2013, Douro, Portugal
Tasting Note: Most of us don’t want to wait for vintage Port to age, and this bottle proves you don’t have to wait to enjoy a vintage Port if you don’t want to.[Read more]
Quinta Das Carvalhas 20 Year Old Tawny Port – Outstanding in Quality
Quinta Das Carvalhas, 20 Year Old Tawny Port, Douro, Portugal
Tasting Note: Aged tawnies present Port at its very height, and this 20-year old tawny Port shows what two decades of mellowing out can do to improve and soften out a fortified wine so you actually taste and get at its very essence.[Read more]
Quinta das Carvalhas 10 Year Tawny Port – Flavor Complexity and Still-Youthful Tannin
Quinta das Carvalhas, 10 Year Tawny Port, Douro, Portugal
Tasting Note: Medium-intensity tawny in color, this wine has a medium-plus-intensity nose of prune, black plum, red cherry, fig, walnut, almond and toast.[Read more]
Emilio Hidalgo Gobernador Oloroso Seco Sherry – Will Satisfy Both Your Fino and Oloroso Urges
Emilio Hidalgo, Gobernador Oloroso Seco Sherry, Andalucia, Spain
Tasting Note: DO Manzanilla Sanlúcar de Barrameda is known for producing the most delicate of Fino-styled Sherries.[Read more]
