Distillery: Balcones Distilling Score: 93 Points Buy Now: www.masterofmalt.com This creamy delight unravels notes of stewed bananas, caramelized apples and a sweet indulgent vanilla. The palate brings forth an assortment of baked apples, dark caramel chocolate with a little sea salt and a rich mouthfeel that adds layers and layers …
Distillery: Balcones Distilling Score: 95 Points Buy Now: www.masterofmalt.com This dark wonder releases an instant charred and smoky nose with an abundance of raisins, stewed plums and molasses brown sugar. Deep and enticing in profile, the palate offers a peppery herbal element, teaming with milk chocolate and smoked ribs. The …
Wine: The Black Pig Prize Shiraz Winemaker: Fuse Vintage: 2016 Variety: Shiraz Price: £19.99 Buy Now: Virgin Wines A big bulky Shiraz, with a powerful bouquet and wonderfully extracted flavours of inky dark fruits, vanilla, liquorice and leather. Incredibly intense, with grippy, almost wild tannins, a bit of a mouthful for sure and …
Wine: Eghemon Passimiento Winemaker: Maurizio Biscardo Vintage: 2015 Varieties: Nero d’Avola Price: £15.99 Buy Now: Virgin Wines An absolutely stand out wine at this price point. Really very impressive indeed. Huge, powerful aromas of inky dark fruits: blackcurrant and damson, supported by fresh vanilla bean and an alluring wood spice. In the mouth sweet …
Wine: Remolinos Vineyard Malbec Winemaker: Decero Vintage: 2012 Variety: Malbec Price: £13.50 Buy Now: Wine Direct I’m not a big drinker of Malbec, nor am I particular fan of the variety, but when a good example smacks you round the chops, you stand up and take notice and that’s exactly what happened with this …
Spirit: Slow Hand Six Woods Cask Whiskey ABV: 57 (115% Proof) Ingredients: Organic malted barley and infused flavor from six woods: white oak, hickory, maple, mulberry, red oak and grape wood Score: 96 Points When you mature a whiskey in 6 different types of wood it’s either going to be …
Spirit: CITY Amber Gin Ingredients: Organic juniper, lemon, lavender, angelica, orris root, coriander, vanilla, cardamom, clove, fennel, cinnamon, allspice, chamomile, star anise ABV: 42 (84% Proof) Score: 92 Points A tempting orange hue sits within the glass, a result of 14 botanicals being macerated for up to two months. The …
Spirit: FRUITLAB Ginger Liqueur Ingredients: Organic fresh, dry, and candied ginger, lemon, cane sugar ABV: 20 (40% Proof) Score: 94 As if you’ve taken fresh ginger and concentrated it down to its purest form, this FRUITLAB concoction is packed full of heat and spice. There’s an array of flavors that …
Spirit: FRUITLAB Orange Liqueur Ingredients: 100% organic sweet, sour, and bitter oranges, cane sugar ABV: 20 (40% Proof) Score: 92 Many liqueurs claim to be fresh, but are overpowered by a synthetic bittersweet finish – this is not the case for FRUITLAB Orange Liqueur. This robust and incredibly concentrated spirit …
Product: Bar Keep Apple Bitters Score: 89 Points Pure apple cider enriched with cinnamon and dry spice notes. The apples notes start out with a flush of concentration before fading into a bittersweet finish. These bitters are 100% organic.
Spirit: Ixá Añejo Tequila Distillery: Greenbar Distillery ABV: 40 (80% Proof) Type: Organic 100% heartland blue agave Score: 97 Points Like pure comfort wrapped up in a bottle, the Ixá Añejo offers sumptuous aromas of toasted oak, butterscotch and toffee syrup. There’s an incredible fresh tobacco that rolls out of …
Product: Bar Keep Lavender Score: 94 Points Deep, sustained and intense lavender glides out of the glass. The pure essence of the plant, it does not overwhelm and it does not dissipate quickly. A great example of bitters that attain a tenacity of flavor and compliment the drinks they …