YOUR RESULTS for "Staff Picks: Emma"

Appealing aromas of red and black fruits, licorice and black pepper are your introduction to this unique Mediterranean grape. The wine is medium weight with red and purple fruits, plums, blueberries and rose petals. It is fresh, unique, appealing, fragrant, food-friendly, soft and accessible. The tannins are light to medium weight with crisp acidity.

Dark fruit but still fresh and juicy this assumed malbec dominated wine is balanced and smooth. An enticing mix of graphite, concentrated blueberry compote, mild smoke and tobacco with some white pepper and cassis.  Floral and spice aromas pull you in and fold over to the palate, adding juicy boysenberry and blueberry pastry notes at the core. The flavors fan out from a push of fresh acidity, with savory olive and five-spice details weaving in, ending with bold tannins and nice length. Drink now through 2028. 12,000 cases made, 3,000 cases imported. - Wine Spectator, 91 Points

A champagne method style cider with  a moderate bouquet of blueberry and blackcurrant and blackcap notes, yellow soft baked apple and some lime zest. The palate is semi-dry and crisp with soft tannin structure there is some ripe peach flavor and cherry pit. There is a distinctive crab apple grip to the finish and is tart and approachable. 

This is a complex pear cider with notes of lavender and sage, dragon fruit and some black licorice. additional notes of white peach, white nectarine, grapefruit pith and light florality.  The palate is delicate and layered with pear skin, white currant, rosemary and soft mousse finishing with crushed seashell minerality. 

An atypical aromatic gin with spearmint, white pepper, and lavender on the nose. The palate is silky with a  hint of sweetness. There is cinnamon, fennel seed and star anise with some menthol and clean notes. The finish is very long and lacks traditional juniper or herbal notes.