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Review: Holmes Cay Single Cask Rum – Venzeuela 2007 and Barbados 2012 Port Cask

Drinkhacker

Holmes Cay says that its latest two offerings “are about us growing up as a company,” offering a retail bottling from a “mystery distillery” and round two of a previous hit. Lots of caramel, laced with coconut and orange peel, on the finish, with just a touch of raisiny mulled wine in the mix. 110 proof.

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5 to Try: Cava, and the Wines Formerly Known as Cava

Imbibe Magazine

Odds are, your familiarity with Cava, the sparkling wine of Spain’s Catalonia region, may simply be as a cheap bottle of bubbles. That’s because the vast majority of the quarter billion bottles sold globally are classified as Cava de Guarda, the youngest and least expensive category.

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5 Iconic Food and Wine Pairings From the Masters Champions Dinners

VinePair

Keeping in line with the theme, the menu featured two classic wines from northern Spain’s Rioja region including the Imperial Gran Reserva 2012 and Contino Blanco 2020 from the historic Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España winery, also known as C.V.N.E. For Rahm, these selections were highly personal.

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Are ‘Legendary Vintages’ Becoming a Tired Wine Marketing Cliche?

VinePair

Even a wine novice can wrap their head around the mystique of a game-changing moment in time or a deliciously Gallic middle finger to the freshly defeated Reich. But besides these rarities, we’ve been spoiled rotten over the past 20 years by a crate full of vintages trumpeted as legendary by the wine industry and media.

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Cava Reclaims Its Identity and Charts a New Way Forward

Imbibe Magazine

Eduard Viader grabs a bottle from a riddling rack, pulls off the metal brace that secured the cork, and with his index finger covering the closure to keep it from flying off, uses his clawlike wrench to ease the cork out of the bottle. He spins the bottle to tamp down the fizz and turns it upright.

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Berry Bros & Rudd Expands ‘A Sense Of Place’ Collection With World Whiskies

The Whiskey Wash

The Berry Bros & Rudd ‘A Sense of Place’ Coasts & Shores Collection: Berry Bros & Rudd Berry Bros & Rudd , Britain’s oldest wine and spirits merchant, has unveiled the second installment in its ‘A Sense of Place ‘ collection. A full list of bottlings and RRPs can be found further down this article.

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14 of the Best Wines From Montefalco, Umbria

VinePair

Understanding wine is often about comparisons: If you’re not familiar with a certain variety, what does it remind you of? The issue is tannins, the chewy, often “dusty” remnants of the grapes that coat the mouth, give red wines structure, and make them worthy of aging. Those young California Cabs are quite tannic. Plenty of time.

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