BevX Reviews – Different By Design
Below is a quick look at our latest reviews published at BevX December 27, 2023. Click the links to get the score and the full analysis of each beverage. Every Wednesday we release new stories, introduce our latest reviews, and send our subscribers their weekly, free digital newsletter. (Subscribe here.)
We had another busy week at BevX with new, tasty beverage reviews to share.
We have shifted our reviews format in order to offer more reviews for our review hungry readers. The review pages (links below) will now offer a full tasting note with links to a full detail review for our Featured Beverages.
As always you see all of our reviews here:
Beverage of the Week
Laird’s Applejack86 Apple Brandy
Laird’s has returned to their roots to create a straight Apple Brandy bottled at 86 proof as they had done prior to prohibition. No fewer than eight varieties of American-grown apples are used to create this beautiful spirit. Seventeen pounds of fresh, tree-ripened apples are needed to produce each single bottle…
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Roccafiore Il Roccafiore Sangiovese IGP Umbria 2020
Brilliant, medium ruby color. The aromatics are intense, offering scents of black plum and elderberry with supporting notes of bramble, tomato leaf, slate, oak, and anise. The palate confirms the nose delivering a red and black fruits-driven core with flavors of black cherry, earth, forest floor, licorice, and cigar box. The finish is long and lingering with silky tannins. Medium to full-bodied and perfectly balanced with an opulent texture. $18 – 5 Stars/97 points
Spirits Reviews
Christian Drouin Tres Pomme Calvados Pays d’Auge
Brilliant, golden straw color. The aromatics deliver a clever balance of youthful cider with apple spirit giving detail of each part of the fruit from the sweet juice to the rustic skins. The palate echoes the nose delivering a unique spirit that defies categorization as it offers vibrant, raw, sweet fruit with the power of a refined pomace brandy in the best possible way. Ideally balanced with great length and weight. Made in very small batches, aged for three years in old, neutral, large format oak casks. $68.75 – 5 Stars