Gonzales Bypass Tio Pepe Fino Sherry
$25.99
More than just your Grandma's drink! Sherry is worth checking out if you want to know more about wine and if you're looking for a taste adventure. Try it with stuffed vine leaves, grilled calamari, mixed olives and tomatoey tapas dishes.
Oban 14 Year
$152.99
Oban 14 is a touchstone malt. One that sits on most backbars across the country. It's rather singular profile makes it a restaurant favorite, in fact, and it's silky, salty and slightly peaty profile make it a complimentary malt to most food styles. Ask most any whisky fan what their gateway dram was and you're almost certain to hear this one crop up in the first few whiskies mentioned. There's good reason for that. Oban's malty, cereal-driven, and faintly peaty profile has just enough fruity sweetness underlying (and even a wee creamy top note!) that it is able to seduce ridiculously broad audiences through its sheer approachability. More defining than any of the afore-mentioned characteristics, though, is the coastal influence that permeates every bottle of Oban. That slightly saline character puts this in a special category that only a handful of Scotland's malts fit into.
Oban 14 is a part of Diageo's Classic Malts series for good reason. You may find it safe, but there's no way you won't find it utterly satisfying. 43% abv
Roederer Cristal
$519.90
Wonderful, just wonderful! And the critics agree, too! Robert Parker's Wine Advocate gave this beauty 93 points. The review: "Roederer’s 2006 Brut Cristal is striking in its sense of lift and delicacy, serving as one of many instances where those bringing preconceptions of this vintage’s warmth and ripeness of fruit to their experience may be pleasantly surprised. A nose of fresh apple, fennel and cucumber sets up associations with a slaw or salad that are crisply, lusciously and refreshingly redeemed on the palate. A garland of honeysuckle and heliotrope complements subtle suggestions of raw almond and vanilla, while alkaline and iodine notes as well as cooling but pungent green herbal notes add to the soothing yet stimulating finish. This exceptionally poised, refined, and buoyant performance is apt to gain depth with a few years’ bottle age."
Masi Valpolicella Bonascosta Classico
$24.99
The work horse of this famous Verona wine family. Easy, lightweight and ready to drink now.
Masi Costasera Amarone Classico
$72.99
Amarone is a unique wine due to its origin, ancient grape varieties and production method (vinification of grapes that have been semi-dried for 3-4 months on bamboo racks). It is ideal with red meats, game and mature cheeses. An excellent wine for ageing up to 30 years.
Knob Creek Small Batch
$51.99
The 9-Year-Old age statement is back on the bottle! Produced by Jim Beam Distillery in Clermont, Kentucky - the Small Batch version of Knob Creek is at least 9 years old and is bottled at 50% ABV, Knob Creek purportedly uses Jim Beam's 'Low Rye" mash bill of about 75% Corn, 13% Rye, and 12% Barley.
Inniskillin Vidal Icewine 50ml
$11.99
Donald Ziraldo and Karl Kaiser founded Inniskillin in Niagara-on-the-Lake in 1975 and later expanded their reach to the Okanagan Valley, too. Their 1989 Inniskillin Icewine won the Grand Prix d'Honneur at Vinexpo in Bordeaux. Icewine is made by leaving grapes on the vine well into the winter months, until they are frozen to -8 C. The frozen grapes are then pressed in the extreme cold, so cold that only a few drops of sweet concentrated juice are obtained from each bunch. This Vidal is deep gold in color with an enticing nose of lychee nuts. The palate is packed with flavors of sweet tropical fruits, peaches and mango. It is intensely sweet with a clean, dry finish. Serve by itself as a dessert, or pair with creme brulee, flan or pound cake. A wonderful gift!
Lindemans Lambic Framboise
$9.19
Magnificent aroma, delicate palate of raspberries with undertones of fruity acidity; elegant, sparkling clean natural taste. Various fruits and vegetables were used to season beers long before hops were commonly used. The acidity of Lambic beers blends perfectly with raspberries. Serving suggestions, chocolate desserts, fresh raspberries, ice cream with a raspberry sauce, creme caramel, baked Alaska, Olympia oysters, caviar.
Periquita Special Reserve
$24.22
Periquita is renowned for being the first commerically sold Portuguese red wine.The history of Periquita is interwoven with the story of José Maria da Fonseca itself, beginning in the 1820s when the founding father of the company, José Maria da Fonseca arrived in Lisbon and bought several local properties. One such purchase, most probably in 1846, was Cova da Periquita. It was on that property that José Maria da Fonseca planted red grapes of the grape Castelão variety, which he brought most probably from the province of Ribatejo.