"A young Viognier vineyard on Sugarbird Manor in Stellenbosch. Dried flowers, potpourri, dried ginger root, hibiscus, orange peel and strawberry juice. Tastes pretty close to dry with a fragrant peppermint finish. Includes the taste of rooibos tea botanicals as well as the ping and zip of the grapefruit rinds. Beautifully juicy, red shiny maraschino-cherry and nectarine fruit in the middle." 25 g/L Residiual sugar.
Pronounced "poont-eh-mess", with its origin in an off-the-cuff drink, mixed according to a share price increase, that became too popular not to bottle. Cin cin!
Wowza! One of the best white vermouths in the entire milky way galaxy. Taste like cream soda and has fresh green herbs, bitter citrus with fennel and anise. Mix it with soda water and drink it from a bowl like a dog.
A versatile eau-de-vie known as "Cognac's little brother", suitable for before or after a meal, and indeed matchable with a variety of foods. The Red is more popular with locals. Five years in oak gives it that little something extra.
The ideal replacement for long-defunct Kina Lillet. Not only is this an exceptional apéritif (rocks, orange slice, perhaps a splash of soda), it's just the thing for a Vesper or the brilliant Corpse Reviver #2. But beware: in the words of cocktail legend Harry Craddock of the London Savoy, "Four of these taken in swift succession will unrevive the corpse again."
