YOUR RESULTS for "Staff Picks: Empar"

Classic Gruner aromas with green melon, white pepper, citrus notes and some soft kiwi. The palate is full of juicy passionfruit, ripe whte peach, some pineapple notes and fresh parsley. The texture is medium weight and silky with a medium plus finish and honeysuckle ending.

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.

Smoky crushed stone mixes with dried yellow flowers, incense and a freshly sliced pear as the 2020 Fiano di Avellino Sequenzha comes to life in the glass. This is pleasantly sweet and opulent in feel, yet nicely balanced by mineral-tinged orchard fruits with enriching hints of almond. It’s persistent, lightly structured and salty through the finale, which creates a wonderful contrast to the heady experience found within. – Vinous, 92 Points

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.