Tomintoul 12 Year Port Wood
$80.99
My Tasting Note: Nose: mulled wine, wet leather, dark chocolate shavings and cooked raisins; floral heather-honey-and undertones of American oak can be found below the port notes; Palate: very earthy-musty, like a Dunnage floor warehouse; medium dark chocolate notes are present but a little thin; faint tannins, shoe leather, candied fruits and more mulled wine emerge in this relatively dark palate; Finish: drying with a little bit of spice, the chocolate, fruits and everything but the leathery tannins and oak have faded away.
Villa Matilde Aglianico
$32.99
Villa Matilde founder Francesco Paolo Avallone set out to bring this ancient vineyard back to life, spending a decade rejuvenating and re-discovering the land's grapes. Some have called his quest "vineyard archeology!" )Made from 100% Aglianico, this well-priced red shows a brilliant red with purple reflections. On the nose, you'll find notes of spice, blackberries and ripe, red fruit. The palate is full, velvety and well-balanced.
De Ranke Kriek
$19.99
De Ranke Kriek is real Belgian sour ale fermented with cherries and then blended with real lambic Brewery Girardin. It is unfiltered and unpasteurized. The aroma is sour cheery with some yeast. The palate has the sour cherry again, with a hint of sweetness and hop bitterness. The De Ranke brewery was founded by two good friends; Nino Bacelle & Guido Devose. To them, brewing is a weekend hobby, not an occupation. For a few hours every week they make small batches of what many consider the best specialty beers. Their beers are robust and flavorful. They use the best Hallertau and brewer's Gold varieties of hops.
De Ranke Guldenberg Noir De Dottignies
$19.99
The heaviest ale produced by De Ranke. It has a very rich taste, coming from the six different kinds of malt used in the brewing process. These malts also give it that rich, dark, nearly black colour. The royal doses of Challenger and Saaz hops bring the typical balance between sweet and bitter.
De Ranke Saison De Dottignies
$8.49
De Ranke is a Saison brewery that especially built their brewery to use whole hop flowers in their beers. Many of their beers are blends with lambics, but this one is a straight saison. It has a yeasty aromas, with citrus, malts, and flowery hops. These aroma characters are also present in the flavour to make a well balanced palate.
De Ranke Cuvee De Ranke
$18.99
The Cuvee is an ale of mixed origin like many Belgian breweries used to make. De Ranke brews a red-brown ale, which is then aged for six months, then blend in a lambic from Brewery Girardin. It's a naturally acidified ale in which the brewers strive to reach the perfect balance between sweet and sour. This amber-coloured ale contains 7% by volume alcohol and can age well.
Gueuze Tilquin A LAncienne
$15.99
Tilquin is a traditionalist lambic blender and learned his craft brewing and blending at two of the great lambic breweries: Drei Founteinen and Cantillon. Tilquin uses Boon, Lindemans, Girardin lambics and is the only blender to get Cantillon for his blends. The aromas are light fruits and funky yeast. The palate has tart citrus dominating with some malt sweetness to balance.
Hayman`s 1850 Gin Reserve
$43.99
"Hayman's 1850 Reserve is distilled to a recipe from 1850 and rested for 3-4 weeks in Scotch Whisky barrels following the Gin Palace tradition," according to the team behind Hayman's. "Gin has never had an age statement. However, in the 1850s, gin was transported, stored and served in wooden barrels rather than a bottle. Drinking establishments, called Gin Palaces were common place all over London and gin was served from the barrel. Hayman's 1850 Reserve is distilled in batches of 5,000 bottles and each bottle is individually numbered alongside the batch number."
Hayman's Sloe Gin
$39.99
A must for cocktail aficionados and history buffs! "Hayman's Sloe Gin is a traditional English liqueur made to a long standing family recipe. Wild hand-picked sloe berries, a type of wild plum, are handpicked in the autumn after the first frosts from the blackthorn tree," according to the family behind Hayman's. "The early frosts lock in the vital sugary plum notes that define Hayman's Sloe Gin. The sloe berries are gently steeped for several months with Hayman's Gin before blended with natural sugars. The final blend is a rich ruby red liqueur bursting with smooth and intense bitter sweet fruit flavours. Sloe Gin has been a popular drink from the 19th Century onwards as a digestive and winter warmer and was a required bar item during the first cocktail era in the 1880s."