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Review: Tin City Distillery Flavored Vodkas and Wine Shine Brandy Manhattan

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While the region is known for its wine production, there’s a thriving craft distilling scene here, too. Coverage of one RTD cocktail from the Wine Shine label also follows. Aromas of chocolate and walnut manage to push through the hearty oxidized wine notes, with a layer of allspice and, curiously, some saffron in the mix.

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Review: The Calistoga Star California Brandy 7 Years Old

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The Calistoga Star is a more expected offering from the notable winemaker — a brandy made from California wine grapes, named in honor of San Francisco’s first newspaper, The California Star. Its owner, Samuel Brannan, was also a prolific brandy distiller.) Let’s try it. Nothing fancy, but it grows on you.

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Review: Napa Valley Brandy Co. Solera Gold

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Solera Gold is a new brandy from Napa Valley Brandy Co., which in itself is a new entrant into the burgeoning world of California brandy. What, with all the grapes being grown here, they needn’t all end up in table wine, right? California brandies can be exceptional. Let’s give this newcomer a try.

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Review: Patty Green Whiskey Distillers – Brandy, Multifarious, and Purple Karma Pinnacle

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Patricia Green Cellars is one of Oregon’s leading wine producers and now it’s getting into … whiskey! All of them are made at least in part with brandy distilled from Patricia Green’s grapes, a project that started in 2020 when wildfires tainted much of the area’s fruit, leaving unusable for winemaking.

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Mulled Wine With Brandy, Honey, and Spices

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So after some experimentation, I settled on a simple mulled wine, with honey, brandy, citrus, and spices. Cocktails 101 Basic mulled wine is very easy to make. You just mix some spices into wine and heat the mix. And that template can guide a mulled wine as well. I’m a cocktail guy, not a wine guy.

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Review: Saison De Frai Smoked Trout Flavored Brandy

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New Hampshire’s Tamworth Distilling, the company behind graveyard tree-sap infused rye , crab whiskey , and a famed venison-flavored whiskey , is back with yet another novelty, this time a brandy, infused with the flavor of smoked trout. Or, more accurately, a trout distillate flavored with apple brandy.

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The 30 Best Wines for Thanksgiving (2024)

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And spending time perusing wine shop shelves while internally panicking about how you need to baste the turkey in 15 minutes is no fun. We compiled our top Thanksgiving wine picks so you can shop with ease and get back in time to “shoo” everyone out of the kitchen. Read on for the 30 best wines to drink this Thanksgiving.

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