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Don Q’s delicious Double Aged Zinfandel Cask Finish Rum (paired release with the Double Aged Port Cask Finish Rum) arrives on the heralded heals of Don Q’s Cognac and Vermouth Cask Finish Rums — both earning Five-Stars at BevX.com. This delicious and unique Rum is aged in American White Oak Ba...
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Exprimere is a new wine project with a very interesting premise. At the heart of Exprimere is some exceptional fruit grown at the Peake Ranch in the Santa Rita Hills of Santa Barbara County — a proven Pinot Noir zone. While the wines were unknown to us the winemaker is very familiar. The wines are...
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This is the tenth vintage of Tongue Dancer Wines’ Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir and as usual, it did not disappoint. How time flies… This expression of Pinot is made by grapes sourced from vineyards in the Sonoma Coast appellation. We have reviewed every vintage since 2015 and while each wine is uniqu...
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It’s been five years since we first tried Don Q’s great aged Rum finished in Vermouth casks. We were incredibly impressed and recently their latest double aged Rums are just as delicious. This complex Rum is made from a blend of the classic Don Q Rums aged five to eight years in American oak fol...
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This is the second vintage of Tongue Dancer Wines’ (TDW) Foxtrot. They describe it as a fun-to-drink dance of a wine and we agree. Albeit the second installment of Foxtrot it’s a first in many respects as last year’s inaugural Foxtrot was sourced from the Anderson Valley while this year’s wi...
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Distilled from apple and pear ciders and then rested in stainless steel as opposed to oak. It's rested for 18 months with water being gradually added in order for it to fully integrate with the pure spirit. It's absolutely wonderful and amazing to smell and sip the pure Normandy fruit in its natural...
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Druid’s Fluid, some say the wine that put Troon on the map, was perhaps a mistake. According to numerous sources Druid’s Fluid was born in the 1970s when, one vintage Dick Troon had a stuck fermentation that left some unfermented sugar in the wine. When he shared this slightly sweet red wine wit...
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Druid’s Fluid, some say the wine that put Troon on the map, was perhaps a mistake. According to numerous sources Druid’s Fluid was born in the 1970s when, one vintage Dick Troon had a stuck fermentation that left some unfermented sugar in the wine. When he shared this slightly sweet red wine wit...
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Troon Vineyard has gone all-in on Syrah. It’s easy to see why as Syrah flourishes in their estate, organic and biodynamic vineyard in Oregon’s Applegate Valley. Troon’s Syrah is more balanced and restrained than most New World Syrah with moderate alcohol and an ideal balance of acidity. This 2...
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Enjoy this drink of opportunity. The California fires resulted in fewer grapes being available from 2020 which then led to empty tanks in 2021. Empty tanks want to be filled so James MacPhail filled his tanks with fresh-pressed apple juice from the Russian River Valley. The Gravenstein and Golden De...
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This is the sixth Troon Tannat that we have sampled and it is our clear favorite to date (keep in mind that 91 points was our lowest score for a Troon Tannat). The 2020 Troon Vineyard Tannat is the best American Tannat that we have ever tasted. The Troon Tannat grapes are grown in the high bench lan...
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Christmas has come early as Tongue Dancer Wines (TDW) has released a new Chardonnay. The grapes are sourced from Pratt Vineyard — Vine Hill. Three great Chardonnay clones are grown here: Mt Eden, Robert Young, and FPS 70 (Dijon). The blend of these clones results in a wine with great complexity an...
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Kuiper Belt Gin is a small batch dry gin that contains eight natural botanicals that deliver notes of juniper berries, citrus, lavender, rose, and orange blossoms. The Space Age precision of the production process delivers an atmospheric distillate with a clean, well-balanced Gin with a cool punch o...
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The 2020 vintage marks the sixth edition of their lovely Bacigalupi Vineyard Chardonnay. We have reviewed all of six of them witnessing an amazing record of success. The scores have ranged from 94 to 98 so you could say that it has lacked diversity… Each of these six has been a product of the vint...
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Made entirely from ingredients harvested in Kagoshima Prefecture (Japan is divided into 47 prefectures — like small states). Anno imo sweet potatoes — only approved for growing in Tanegashima, Japan, are employed and added to the secondary fermentation. This variety of sweet potato adds the uniq...
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