Domaine Desire Petit Ploussard de Feule Sans Soufre 2015A lovely ploussard with soft fruit and great floral (violets) aromatics. Ripe red berries, plum and some pomegranate on the palate, soft acidity, light tannins and subtle earthiness. It's just what the wine doctor ordered! Paging Burgundy red wine lovers!

When volunteer firefighter Jess Graber responded to a neighbor’s barn fire down the road

with a hint of mint

juicy with lots of dark fruit flavors

according to Macallan Whisky Maker Robert Dalgarno

This is a pure expression of Gringet

December/2011

as the distillery puts it mysteriously - "Was it influenced by the phrase ‘Yippie-yi-yo-ki-yay’ from the 1936 hit song “I’m an Old Cow Hand from the Rio Grande” about a 20th-century cowboy who has little in common with cowpunchers of old and sung by Bing Crosby in the film “Rhythm on the Range” (also sung later by Roy Rogers and Frank Sinatra) and considered one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time"

then an oily spread that flashes to a sweet-hot finish

made with a mash bill of Japanese single malt and Japanese grain whisky

Mezcal Unión El Viejo is a clear

it is a traditional French “triple sec” – thee separate distillations of spices and the “sec” or bitter

Matured in first-fill bourbon casks and cut to 46% ABV before bottling using Wicklow water