Château Arton 'Les Réserves' Prune Gifts

Château Arton 'Les Réserves' Prune GiftsDon't get it confused'prune' is the French word for plum, and this eau de vie, or true fruit brandy, is made with one of France's most famous versions of the fruit. The iconic black plum from Agen was called the 'black gold of Aquitaine' and celebrated for the last 500 years. Harvested from heirloom, estate trees and produced as closely to the ancestral traditions of the region as possible, the fruit was slowly distilled in a simple still with

cassia bark and clove into a complex profile that has come to define the original cocktail

Prosecco-styled wine gets a salty makeover from the variety being planted in the famous coastal region of the Italian Riviera

quenching its dark heart

a persistent and sharp structure on the palate

non-industrial white wines from coastal Portugal

New York by Rebecca Soboti

Julie Benau's pure distillation of the Mediterranean

' which is a reference to the semi-carbonic maceration winemaking technique and not a weird health issue

Fresh aromas of golden apple

fresh and floral as a meadow

What's amazing about this wine is that isn't heavy or overly dark

despite never having heard the word