Clear, medium-deep garnet. Medium-intensity nose of cassis with green herbal overtones. Medium-bodied with flavours of red currant and cassis. Tannins still prominent; will improve for another year or 2.
This is a farmhouse-style “scrumpy” fermented with Montmorency cherry juice and made with wild and brett yeast, and left unfiltered and unpasteurized. A crazy concoction that tests your senses with a funky nose of fresh cherries, cranberries with a brett note to go with pithy apple and a touch of citrus. It starts off-dry on the palate with all those wonderful red fruits but finishes dry with a citrus and tart apple edge to it.
Fragrant white flowers and ripe yellow fruit scents lead the way for an appetizing array of apple, pear and citrus flavours with zesty acidity, gentle fizz, a lick of mineral and a judicious touch of residual sweetness on the finish.
Though doubt still exists over the birthplace of vodka, most now agree that the Ukraine (part of Russia at the time) was it. Upscale Ukrainian vodka brand Zirkova has taken the unique approach of releasing a pair of luxury grain vodkas. Zirkova One, made from premium Ukrainian wheat and rye, is crafted in an ultra-clean, silky, delicate style and is designed to be savoured chilled neat, on the rocks, or in a pure cocktail such as a vodka martini. Zirkova Together employs quadruple distillation and Zolotonosha spring water to give a unique vodka designed specifically to enhance vodka-based cocktails. Personally, we found the slightly earthier style, with a hint of almond and spice, to be equally enjoyable served neat.
Ruby-purple colour with a nose of raspberries, oak spice and a note of lavender. Full and silky on the palate with opulent mid-palate flavours of black fruits and liquorice, pure and pretty — a wine that will last for a decade and longer.
Made from Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. Clear medium-deep blushing copper. Medium-intensity nose shouts of strawberries. Light-bodied and immediately appealing, tasting of strawberry candy. Too light for food, drink now as an apéritif.
Black cherry, spice and earthy notes on top before a savoury and juicy entry, with forest floor, herbal, clove notes intermingled with black fruit and spice, underpinned by approachable tannins balanced by freshness and good acidity, with lingering mineral and earthiness in the finish.