The wine region of Los Angeles County is located in the region of South Coast of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Moraga Estate or the Domaine Moraga Estate produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Los Angeles County are Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Los Angeles County often reveals types of flavors of oak, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of microbio, vegetal or spices.
In the mouth of Los Angeles County is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 11 estates and châteaux in the of Los Angeles County, producing 23 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Los Angeles County go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).
The fifth of Redbreast’s Dream Cask offerings, released to mark World Whisky Day tomorrow (Saturday 21st May), is a 30-year-old single pot still whiskey produced by Irish Distillers at its Midleton Distillery in Co Cork. Unlike previous single-cask releases, this year’s Dream Cask combines two casks chosen as their favourites from Midleton’s vast inventory by master blender Billy Leighton and blender Dave McCabe. Leighton’s cask is a first-fill Oloroso Sherry butt filled in May 1990, while McCab ...
R&B Distillers, operator of the Isle of Raasay Distillery, plans to open The Machrihanish Distillery at Dhurrie Farm, Machrihanish, as a ‘farm-to-bottle’ single malt distillery, along with a visitor centre and whisky club. The company aims to make Machrihanish a sustainable, net-zero distillery that uses no fossil fuels in its production, as well as using biological farming practices to create greater biodiversity on the adjacent farmland. Plans are expected to be finalised during 2022, with ...
Export shipments were worth £4.51bn last year, up 19% on 2020, but 8% below the total of £4.91bn recorded in 2019, according to HMRC figures quoted by the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA). However, export volumes rose 21% to nearly 1.4 billion bottles in 2021, some 73 million bottles above the figures recorded in pre-pandemic 2019. Scotch exports experienced an annus horribilis in 2020, falling to a 10-year low thanks to the combined effects of the pandemic and the imposition of punitive import t ...
