YOUR RESULTS for "Staff Picks: Empar"

Elegant and complex, this wine offers stony and mineral flavors, orchard fruit, salinity, and lemon.  The palate is fresh and clean, and flavors are layered.  There is an interesting acidity on the attack that takes a back seat on the midpalate. The salt of tears rather than seawater is clear on the attack through the midpalate. Medium in body, this wine has a long, complex finish.

Aromas are of white peach, apricot, slate and citrus. The round palate bursts with crisp, tart apple, green pear, melon, tropical fruits and ripe but zesty citrus. It is texturally creamy with refreshing acidity and a long finish.

Juniper, violet and pepper notes mingle out front before the core of kirsch and plum fruit arrives, turning this into a juicy ball of anise-tinged deliciousness, with an echo of garrigue through the finish. Drink now through 2025. Wine Spectator, 91 Points

This vermouth is complex and balanced so that it is not either bitter or sweet. Some red cherry, cola spice, clove, wood spice, golden raisen and soft cinnamon on the nose. The palate delivers similar flavor as the nose, with more orange peel, dried apricot and yellow plum with more all spice and a long finish.