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Staff Favorites
| If you’re going to have Robert Parker or Stephen Tanzer over for dinner, selecting a wine they’ve rated highly will be a nice choice. However, when you’re buying wines for yourself, we’d love to see you find wines that match up your unique palate and pocketbook. We have a large staff of friendly and knowledgeable wine professionals that taste hundreds of wines each week. They can put you in touch with bottles that you are likely to love, often at a much lower cost than the highly-rated gems that often see a run-up in price and frequent availability issues. Like any great group of opinionated professionals, our staff has varied tastes themselves. Often our customers will find a particular staff member with a style that corresponds to their own. That concept works extremely well in our retail stores, and this section is our effort to bring you the same online. Don’t get us wrong, we love the highly rated wines from the press and will continue to offer them, but we think you’re missing out if you’re not augmenting those selections with picks from our excellent staff. Here are their favorites. (Click on a name to see their other selections - or to drop them a line.) Cheers! |
Reviews
Ariston Aspasie Brut Rosé Champagne
By: Mike Barber | Review Date: 2/2/2012 | Send Email
By: Mike Barber | Review Date: 2/2/2012 | Send Email
This bottle rivals other champagne roses that are two or three times as expensive! It is filled with floral aromas and fresh fruit flavors, with a dry finish. Fun, bright, and delicious - the ariston rose is always one of the winery's best releases.
Price:
$42.99
Ariston Aspasie Brut Rosé Champagne
By: Christie Brunick | Review Date: 1/27/2012 | Send Email
By: Christie Brunick | Review Date: 1/27/2012 | Send Email
My favorite Rose Champagne for the price! Amazing bright and vibrant red-pink fruit with a broad and creamy mouthfeel with racy acidity to keep it all in balance. As far as I'm concerned it's my Billecart Rose for a quarter of the price! Always elegant and delightful!
Price:
$42.99
2005 Verdignan, Haut-Médoc
By: Steve Bearden | Review Date: 1/17/2012 | Send Email
By: Steve Bearden | Review Date: 1/17/2012 | Send Email
Here you have an over achieving Chateau coupled with the outstanding 2005 Bordeaux vintage resulting in amazing value. This is dark in color and deep in fruit with hints of earth, savory herb, spice and a touch of smoke. The wine is quite full bodied with a meaty texture and ripe, silky tannin. Decant now or age another 5 years.
Ariston Aspasie Brut Rosé Champagne
By: Sarah Covey | Review Date: 12/29/2011 | Send Email
By: Sarah Covey | Review Date: 12/29/2011 | Send Email
Minerally, cranberry and tart- the perfect pairing with smoked salmon appetizers. The richness of the salmon would be outstanding with the crisp mineral zip of this fantastic rose. Another excellent demonstration of the care and passion that Ariston Aspasie and family put into their champagne. Drink deep- Happy New Year!
Price:
$42.99
La Guita Manzanilla Sanlucar de Barrameda
By: Mahon McGrath | Review Date: 12/26/2011 | Send Email
By: Mahon McGrath | Review Date: 12/26/2011 | Send Email
What? A new sherry to try? On it. This manzanilla gives up sea breeze, wet gravel, brine, a gentle toasted almond note and a lemon juice-citric tang on the finish, showing all the character you’d expect and at a reasonable price, too. While this certainly shows where it’s from, there is a softness to the middle that can almost fool you into thinking you’re sipping a brisk, dry white that didn’t mature under a veil of flor.
There’s a funny piece of twine on the bottle’s front. I gave it a tug and it came unstuck from the labels holding it in place. Alas, it let loose no confetti. I afterwards ascertained that the name “La Guita” came from a favorite quip of the house’s founder, and was a slang word for “money” but also meant “cord.” Now you know. That they also stamp the bottling date on the back is perhaps the more salient, and appreciated, detail with a perishable item like sherry.
ArteNOM "Seleccion 1146" Añejo Tequila (750ml)
By: Mike Barber | Review Date: 12/24/2011 | Send Email
By: Mike Barber | Review Date: 12/24/2011 | Send Email
It is tough in the tequila world to find small production, unique expressions of terroir and artful distillation, but that is exactly what the arte nom line of tequilas is all about. They each come from a single plantation of agave and a single distillery. They are all wonderful, but I'm an anejo guy, and this beauty is rich and lush with wonderful oaky notes over pure citrus flavors. If you're a real tequila fan- you have to try this.
Price:
$89.99
2005 Verdignan, Haut-Médoc
By: Jacques Moreira | Review Date: 12/17/2011 | Send Email
By: Jacques Moreira | Review Date: 12/17/2011 | Send Email
Great example of the fantastic 2005 vintage. The Verdignan it is showing those classic notes of black currants, cedar, touch of cigar box and even some floral notes. Old school yet approachable. It needs a bit of debating to bring its magic out. Very good value and very good wine.
Launois "Cuvée Réservée" Grand Cru Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne
By: Mike Parres | Review Date: 12/14/2011 | Send Email
By: Mike Parres | Review Date: 12/14/2011 | Send Email
This is one of the best Champagnes in our entire stock, all Chardonnay and all Grand Cru from the villages of Mesnil, Oger, Cramant and Avize. Buy now, it will be gone soon !
Price:
$39.99
Franck Bonville Grand Cru Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne
By: Christie Brunick | Review Date: 12/14/2011 | Send Email
By: Christie Brunick | Review Date: 12/14/2011 | Send Email
The best deal in direct import Blanc De Blanc Champagne Yet! Its an entire staff favorite here at K&L, and once you try it you'll understand why. Its elegant and pure but has a richness on the palate that is creamy and fulfilling. This is my personal house Champagne! My favorite Champagne under $50 by far! This has no hard edges at all; it's completely seamless from start to finish. Crisp, with elegance, round and creamy richness, the Bonville is full of bright fruit and mineral notes. As much fun as bubbly gets! Try it ASAP!
San Venanzio Fortunato Brut Prosecco di Valdobbiadene Superiore
By: Christie Brunick | Review Date: 12/14/2011 | Send Email
By: Christie Brunick | Review Date: 12/14/2011 | Send Email
A delightful Prosecco from Italy which is dry but still very soft and elegant on the palate. Perfect Party bubbles for the Holiday season!
Price:
$15.99
Underberg Bitters (20ml bottles three-pack) (cannot ship)
By: Jeremy Bohrer | Review Date: 12/14/2011 | Send Email
By: Jeremy Bohrer | Review Date: 12/14/2011 | Send Email
The holidays are here! That means big meals and lots of drinks. What do you do after a huge meal when you feel like all you can do is unbutton your pants and sink into the couch? Underberg!! This digestif bitter works wonders on your full stomach, aiding with digestion. It's also a relaxant in stressful situations, which the holidays can certainly be too.
Price:
$5.99
Launois "Cuvée Réservée" Grand Cru Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne
By: Jeff Garneau | Review Date: 12/9/2011 | Send Email
By: Jeff Garneau | Review Date: 12/9/2011 | Send Email
I am embarrassed to admit that before I met Gary Westby, our Champagne buyer, I was not a drinker of Champagne. I probably had had one or two bottles of mediocre, bulk-produced sparkling wine (not Champagne) and dismissed all sparkling wines on that basis. Then Gary introduced me to grower-producer Champagnes like the Launois "Cuvée Reserve" Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne. The quality--the authenticity--of the wines was a revelation. And the great prices made possible through our direct import program made it impossible not to try as many as I could. If you want to learn about the Côte des Blancs--the home of the finest Chardonnay in Champagne--about Grand Cru sites like Mesnil and Oger, then this is a tutorial in a glass. Fine bead. Clean. Crisp. Wonderfully mineral in its expression, while still rich in texture. Try it on its own as an aperitif or, better yet, with our local Dungeness crab.
Price:
$39.99
Rare Wine Company "Historic Series - Charleston" Sercial Madeira
By: Mahon McGrath | Review Date: 11/27/2011 | Send Email
By: Mahon McGrath | Review Date: 11/27/2011 | Send Email
The dominant character here is a subdued toasted nuttiness, not specifically almond or walnut, with undercurrents of dried fruit. The palate is another thing altogether. This is one a wine that succeeds more on texture than nuance of flavor. While it is a sweet wine, it doesn’t put itself across the way a sauterne or even a sweet sherry would. It is as though you’d put the proverbial “spoon full of sugar” in your mouth-though for the purposes of this analogy we’d better make sure you’re visualizing raw sugar-and then sucked a fat wedge of lime. The tremendous acidity doesn’t just balance out the sweetness, but actually overcompensates for it, making it seem to finish much drier than it started and lip-smacking, too. Singular stuff. Works pretty nice with a slice of pumpkin pie and I’d wager you would get good mileage out of it with well-seasoned meaty bites, say dumplings of some sort.
La Petite Marquise Crémant de Loire Brut
By: Adam Parry | Review Date: 11/27/2011 | Send Email
By: Adam Parry | Review Date: 11/27/2011 | Send Email
Bad bad Deligeroy Brown, baddest man in the whole damn town. This is what i hear when i drink this delicious Cremant from Loire. It is such a fantastic inexpensive sparkling wine. Try this with spicy Thai food. Enjoy!
Price:
$14.99
La Petite Marquise Crémant de Loire Brut
By: Illya Haase | Review Date: 11/25/2011 | Send Email
By: Illya Haase | Review Date: 11/25/2011 | Send Email
In our recent staff tasting for sparkling wines. This by far was top of the class! I brought it to start the Thanksgiving Day events. Deligeroy did not disappoint! It went perfect with the root salad!
Price:
$14.99
Ariston Aspasie "Réserve" Brut Champagne (375ml)
By: Sarah Covey | Review Date: 11/21/2011 | Send Email
By: Sarah Covey | Review Date: 11/21/2011 | Send Email
A teeny-tiny version of the Aspasie classic Carte Blanche? Get me a picnic basket or a seat by the fire! I'm in! A miniature version of the well-balanced, delicious champagne that we sell by the, well, boatload as it were. Get it now- this is all that is left!
Price:
$19.99
Clear Creek Douglas Fir Brandy (375ml)
By: Jeremy Bohrer | Review Date: 11/16/2011 | Send Email
By: Jeremy Bohrer | Review Date: 11/16/2011 | Send Email
Like a pine tree in a glass but in a very, very good way! Use this in autumn cocktails or in holiday baking to really jazz things up this season.
Price:
$49.99
St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur (750ml)
By: Jeremy Bohrer | Review Date: 11/16/2011 | Send Email
By: Jeremy Bohrer | Review Date: 11/16/2011 | Send Email
This stuff is liquid deliciousness. You can put in anything and it will make it taste wonderful. Seriously, you could put this in muddy water and it would still make it great. Floral, light and bright, with an elegance with no equal. Try it in sparkling wine. Yummy!
St. George "Terroir" Mount Tamalpais Gin (750ml)
By: Sarah Covey | Review Date: 11/15/2011 | Send Email
By: Sarah Covey | Review Date: 11/15/2011 | Send Email
Having read Melissa and David's reviews of this gin, I was excited but rather dubious in approaching it- how could it be so expressive of the terrior of Northern California? I poured it over ice, added some Fevertree Tonic water and a splash of lime and BAM! Hands down the most incredible experience of drinking in the landscape I love so much! Bay laurel, damp redwood, eucalyptus, wild fennel & dill- this California girl is enraptured!
Price:
$29.99
Black Maple Hill "Limited Edition" Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (700ml)
By: Scott Beckerley | Review Date: 11/11/2011 | Send Email
By: Scott Beckerley | Review Date: 11/11/2011 | Send Email
I write up "the hard stuff" very rarely but, this bourbon is soooo good that it is not be be missed. Not too sweet, with balanced flavors of vanilla, caramel, spice and nectarine. Very smooth without being cloying or flat. A really good value! Get it while we have it...the times that we are sold out of this seem to be increasing.
Price:
$69.99
| Limit of 1 per customer |
Graham's "Six Grapes" Reserve Port
By: Christie Brunick | Review Date: 11/10/2011 | Send Email
By: Christie Brunick | Review Date: 11/10/2011 | Send Email
The best value I've tasted for a full 750ml bottle of Ruby Port! Dark and deep in color with loads of black fruit, spice, and chocolate on the nose. Richly intense with a creamy mid-palate with plenty of good acidity to balance it out. I'll be definitely buying some for the holiday season!
La Petite Marquise Crémant de Loire Brut Rosé
By: Jacques Moreira | Review Date: 11/5/2011 | Send Email
By: Jacques Moreira | Review Date: 11/5/2011 | Send Email
Without a doubt one of my favorites sparkling rosé wines. Full of citron, wild strawberries, cherries and FUN! I recommend it for an aperitif on Valentine's day, or with the heart shaped box of chocolate! What?! It is not Valentines just yet? Just pretend, your significant other will love it!
Price:
$14.99
Lini "Labrusca" Lambrusco Emilia Rosé
By: Illya Haase | Review Date: 11/3/2011 | Send Email
By: Illya Haase | Review Date: 11/3/2011 | Send Email
Pizza and Labrusco: what a great combo! Basil and Lini rose were made for each other. I need not say more.
Price:
$16.99
La Petite Marquise Crémant de Loire Brut
By: Jim Boyce | Review Date: 10/31/2011 | Send Email
By: Jim Boyce | Review Date: 10/31/2011 | Send Email
This is a fresh, mineral and citus noted, delightfully refreshing french sparkling wine without the big price tag. Stock up for your holiday parties!
Price:
$14.99
La Petite Marquise Crémant de Loire Brut
By: Kyle Kurani | Review Date: 10/31/2011 | Send Email
By: Kyle Kurani | Review Date: 10/31/2011 | Send Email
Beautifully elegent and refreshing, this bubbly brings a festive tone to any gathering without dragging a price tag along
Price:
$14.99
Deutz "Classic" Brut Champagne
By: Kyle Kurani | Review Date: 10/30/2011 | Send Email
By: Kyle Kurani | Review Date: 10/30/2011 | Send Email
I recently tasted this at our Champagne event and was pleasantly suprised by the balance and concentration of this wine. A balanced blend with richness and stone fruit notes as well and a very full mouth feel.
2005 Verdignan, Haut-Médoc
By: Jeff Garneau | Review Date: 10/12/2011 | Send Email
By: Jeff Garneau | Review Date: 10/12/2011 | Send Email
Newly arrived and purchased directly from the chateau. We currently have several vintages of this moderately priced Haut Medoc in stock. This 2005 is one of my favorites. The nose has some lovely floral and spice notes, and a little bit of old school Bordeaux funk no doubt originating from some of the older barrels in the cellar. When first opened some of that character is evident on the palate but quickly dissipates. An hour or so in the decanter brings out the characteristic ’05 fruit – dark, rich and ripe with classic black currant and cassis notes. Great structure here with good acidity and tannins that are initially quite firm. Drinkable now but ought to even better with another 3 to 5 years in the cellar.
St. George "Botanivore" Gin (750ml)
By: Jeffrey Jones | Review Date: 10/3/2011 | Send Email
By: Jeffrey Jones | Review Date: 10/3/2011 | Send Email
There seems to always be something exciting and delicious coming from the people at St. George. The Bontanivore is a lovely and aromatic offering. It is complex with layers of enticing aromas but is not light or flavorless. If I had to choose a word for this gin it would "elegant". I would also add delicious.
Sorelle Bronca Prosecco di Valdobbiadene Extra Dry
By: Kyle Kurani | Review Date: 9/29/2011 | Send Email
By: Kyle Kurani | Review Date: 9/29/2011 | Send Email
Perfectly crisp and refreshing,this Prosecco delivers a festive drink that is a certain people pleaser
San Venanzio Fortunato Brut Prosecco di Valdobbiadene Superiore
By: Kyle Kurani | Review Date: 9/27/2011 | Send Email
By: Kyle Kurani | Review Date: 9/27/2011 | Send Email
Exactly what I look for in a Prosecco, crisp, refreshing and fruity without being sweet and cloying. Greg did a wonderful job finding this producer to bring in directly, stone and core fruits jump out of the glass, continuing on the palate with a lovely clean mouth feel. A bright lovely drink that is the perfect start of an evening.
Price:
$15.99
Ariston Aspasie "Réserve" Brut Champagne (375ml)
By: Kyle Kurani | Review Date: 9/27/2011 | Send Email
By: Kyle Kurani | Review Date: 9/27/2011 | Send Email
Wonderfully balanced bubbles for a wonderfully balanced price tag. The Carte Blanche is my most often used excuse to open bubble just for the sake of having a glass of Champagne, there are always a couple of bottles stashed away around my house. Powerfully elegant, with toasted nutty notes and a length on the finish that reasserts why I love this wine.
Price:
$19.99
Ariston Aspasie "Brut Prestige" Champagne (1.5L)
By: Jeff Garneau | Review Date: 9/23/2011 | Send Email
By: Jeff Garneau | Review Date: 9/23/2011 | Send Email
One of my favorites among our direct import Champagnes. The ONLY way to enjoy this wine more is to drink it out of magnum. Rich, ripe fruit, classic "toasty" brioche character. I took a bottle this weekend to a large party with many wonderful bottles of wine open for the sampling. My only regret is that I didn't bring TWO magnums; this was one of the first bottles emptied.
Price:
$99.99
2005 Verdignan, Haut-Médoc
By: Clyde Beffa Jr. | Review Date: 8/31/2011 | Send Email
By: Clyde Beffa Jr. | Review Date: 8/31/2011 | Send Email
This wine is a great cellar candidate with its mineral, licorice and toasty oak aromas. Full-bodied, with velvety tannins and a lingering finish. Very well balanced and generous with lots of fruit underneath. Must decant an hour if you want to drink it now.
2005 Verdignan, Haut-Médoc
By: Ralph Sands | Review Date: 8/31/2011 | Send Email
By: Ralph Sands | Review Date: 8/31/2011 | Send Email
A strong and complex wine with very deep, blood red fruit. Spicy wit hints of earth and heavily toasted oak. This is a masculine style of wine that could use a few more years to soften up.
El Dorado 12 Year Old Demerara Guyana Rum
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/28/2011 | Send Email
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/28/2011 | Send Email
An incredible example of why the El Dorado Rum should be considered some of the world's finest. From a famous rum producing nation, Guyana, Demerara Distillers Ltd is the last functioning distillery in this Caribbean jungle nation. Using some of the world's oldest stills, DDL has been able to continue Guyana's legacy of producing the finest rums. Every offering from El Dorado is strikingly different, but the 12 year stands alone in terms of bang for your buck. This is a blend of 4 rums from 4 different types of still and represents the old style Guyana rum. Delicious!
Price:
$36.99
Barbancourt 5 Star 8 Year Old Haitian Rum (750ml)
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/28/2011 | Send Email
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/28/2011 | Send Email
Haiti's largest export is rhum. Barbancourt is essentially the ONLY rhum being exported from the troubled island nation. It is a testament to their commitment to quality. Made in a very similar style to the AOC rums of it's neighbors Martinique and Guadeloupe, Barbancourt 5 Star is one of my favorites. Fresh and light on its feet, you have all the intensity of a great Agricole rhum without the funky undertones. One of the best values in the store.
Price:
$34.99
Combier Liqueur D'Orange Triple Sec (750ml)
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/28/2011 | Send Email
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/28/2011 | Send Email
I'm picky about my triple sec. Most people look at triple sec like a filler, something that doesn't really have to be of the highest quality. I say to them, "look again!" Trying triple sec of varying quality side by side will immediately tell you that this assumption is flawed. Combier is one of the finest triple sec available and should be considered as such. This makes every difference in your drink so don't skimp.
Price:
$34.99
La Cigarrera Manzanilla Sanlucar de Barrameda (375ml)
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/28/2011 | Send Email
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/28/2011 | Send Email
Gwah! Great Manzanilla for nothing at all. If you don't like sherry then we can't be friends, but if you at least try this bottle I'll forgive you forever. An accurate example of this stupendous style of sherry. Intense and nutty, very very rich with a racy balancing acidity. This is what I LIKE!!!
Price:
$18.99
Rare Wine Company "Historic Series - Savannah" Verdelho Madeira
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/28/2011 | Send Email
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/28/2011 | Send Email
Madeira has been relegated to the shelves of cooks for years, but the Rare Wine Co. is changing that with it's phenomenal line of Historically significant single variety Madeiras. This shows intense fresh cotton candy, freshly cracked almond and a deep earthy rancio fruit on the nose. The palate EXPLODES with acidity negating any sweetness that might have been there. Because of the ridiculous way they make Madeira, this basically has no shelf life, so open it today and drink over the next year!
Louis Roque "La Vieille Prune Reserve L.O.R." Plum Brandy (750ml)
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/28/2011 | Send Email
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/28/2011 | Send Email
I'm smitten with this fun little spirit from the north eastern part of the French Southwest. This plum brandy is one of the easiest to appreciate, but will impress even the most jaded brandy lover. Forward sweet oak proceeds and incredibly deep fruitiness. No heat on the palate, the powerful fruit feels like its been sweetened, but it's in fact very dry.
Price:
$54.99
Cognac Park VSOP Cognac (750ml)
By: Gary Lai | Review Date: 8/20/2011 | Send Email
By: Gary Lai | Review Date: 8/20/2011 | Send Email
Pure sheer silkiness! This cognac has quiet elegance and classiness!
Price:
$54.99
Sorelle Bronca Prosecco di Valdobbiadene Extra Dry
By: Jeffrey Jones | Review Date: 8/13/2011 | Send Email
By: Jeffrey Jones | Review Date: 8/13/2011 | Send Email
One of my favorite proseccos.The Sorelle Bronca is bright and juicy,with nice bubbles and enough sweetness for balance and enjoyment. This sparkler is great alone or as a mixer. A great party wine.
Pol Roger "Réserve" Brut Champagne
By: Christie Brunick | Review Date: 8/11/2011 | Send Email
By: Christie Brunick | Review Date: 8/11/2011 | Send Email
One of my new favorite finds at K&L! This is a gorgeous Champagne. Lots of focus and elegance showing from start to finish. Just slightly toasty, this Brut is full of integrated acid and fresh minerality that will have your taste buds tingling and salivating for more! An amazing value for under $40 as well! Stock up for the holidays before its gone!
Billecart-Salmon "Le Réserve" Champagne
By: Clyde Beffa Jr. | Review Date: 8/9/2011 | Send Email
By: Clyde Beffa Jr. | Review Date: 8/9/2011 | Send Email
As focused as ever, almost lemony on the palate and super refreshing. It reminds me of when we sold a special Billecart "K&L Cuvée" years back.
Ariston Aspasie "Réserve" Brut Champagne
By: Kirk Walker | Review Date: 7/29/2011 | Send Email
By: Kirk Walker | Review Date: 7/29/2011 | Send Email
This is the go to value Champagne here at K&L. Dry, toasty with subtle fruit notes. Everything you want from Champagne except for the price tag!
Price:
$37.99
La Petite Marquise Crémant de Loire Brut
By: Steve Greer | Review Date: 7/19/2011 | Send Email
By: Steve Greer | Review Date: 7/19/2011 | Send Email
I think this is turning out to be the company's favorite under $15 sparkling. It is finally back. There is a great balance between mineral, citrus, fruit with a nice mouth-feel.
Price:
$14.99
2010 Pontet-Canet, Pauillac
By: Steve Greer | Review Date: 7/5/2011 | Send Email
By: Steve Greer | Review Date: 7/5/2011 | Send Email
Fantastic. This vintage is the first year they are certified biodynamic. They also are using a horse to farm about 60 acres, and Alfred Tesseron wants to add one horse a year. This attention to detail in the vineyard is paying off in the finished wine. Very expressive on the nose, it has lovely floral qualities, blackberry and spice. There’s pure black fruit on the palate finishing with some astringency, but the fresh fruit balances the tannins. Buy this as soon as you can!
St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur (750ml)
By: Sarah Covey | Review Date: 7/4/2011 | Send Email
By: Sarah Covey | Review Date: 7/4/2011 | Send Email
Drinking St. Germain is like drinking liquid flowers! Subtle, sweet and captivating. Who knew that hand-picked elderflowers from the French Alps could be so lovely? Delicious with Gran Cava champagne with a curly twist of orange, even more amazing with soda on the rocks! I served St. Germain with soda and fresh watermelon juice at a springtime cocktail party, and could hardly keep up with the demand! My absolute favorite spirit for spring and summer!
Russian River Brewing Co. "Blind Pig" IPA, California (510ml) *NO SHIPPING/TRANSFERS OUTSIDE BAY AREA*
By: Jeremy Bohrer | Review Date: 7/4/2011 | Send Email
By: Jeremy Bohrer | Review Date: 7/4/2011 | Send Email
Hops, hops and more hops...but balanced. Russian River Brewing is making some of the most sought after beers in the country these days and for good reason. The Blind Pig has everything you could want in an IPA. It's bitter but balanced with some fruit and spice. I may be a vegan but I love me some Blind Pig.
Price:
$5.99
| Limit of 12 per customer |
Louis Roque "La Vieille Prune Reserve L.O.R." Plum Brandy (750ml)
By: Jeffrey Jones | Review Date: 7/4/2011 | Send Email
By: Jeffrey Jones | Review Date: 7/4/2011 | Send Email
This has got to be one of the most interesting spirits that I have tasted in a long time. The Roque Vieille Prune is, however, more than interesting, it is very good. It has seductve prune aromas that lead to prune and aged cognac like flavors. The Roque Vieille Prune should delight and surprise even the most jaded spirits drinker.
Price:
$54.99