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SUN SINGER WINES & SPIRITS NEWS
March 17, 2011 Volume: # 4 Issue: # 11
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May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you wherever you go.
~Irish Blessing
Ah so typical of Illinois, Spring one moment, then Summer the next. No, we're not complaining - the sun and warmth is what we all need for celebrating a great St. Pat's Day. Maybe St. Pat had a hand in it all. Hail the Irish!
LUCK 'O THE IRISH
In every year since 1991, March has been proclaimed Irish-American Heritage Month by the US Congress or President due to the date of St. Patrick's Day. Today, Saint Patrick's Day is widely celebrated in America by Irish and non-Irish alike. It is one of the leading days for consumption of alcohol in the United States, and is typically one of the busiest days of the year for bars and restaurants. Many people, regardless of ethnic
background, wear green clothing and items. Traditionally, those who are caught not wearing green are pinched affectionately.
Mark, Jackie & the Sun Singer Staff
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happily irish St. Patrick's Day Savings!
Midleton Very Rare Irish Whiskey 2010 750ml Each year this "experiment" in quality changes a little. Each release is vintage dated with each bottle of Midleton™ getting its own serial number and signed by the Master Distiller to indicate guaranteed superior quality. It's not as big and bold as its sibling Jameson brands. One thing you can count on is that it will always be elegant, impeccably balanced, and perilously drinkable. Distillery Manager Barry Crockett wouldn't put his signature on every bottle if he didn't think so. Tasting Note Distilled three times by John Jameson and Son, the whiskey is carefully aged in individually chosen oak casks. Midleton Very Rare is only available in strictly limited quantities as just a small number of casks of the finest distillates are personally selected by the Master Distiller each year. It is reserved for the appreciation of only the most discerning judges of fine whiskeys.ON SALE $129.99 save $10 St. Patrick's Day Only!
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this week At the Wine Bar!
Sun Singer offers more than 30 wines by the glass every day of the week.
Here's two highlights for the week:
White
Leitz Dragonstone Riesling '08
Rheinghau, Germany
Zesty lime, peach, pink grapefruit, and red currant ally themselves to cinnamon spice, salts, and wet stones, and finish with simultaneous penetration and delicacy.
Red
Conde de Hervias 'Mencos' Joven '08, Rioja, Spain
An intensely perfumed bouquet evokes ripe cherry, cassis and smoky
Indian spices. The palate shows livelier raspberry and bitter cherry
flavors and a late note of cracked pepper. Juicy and precise wine
with good finishing bite and sweet persistence.
The Wine Bar Cafe offers 2 ounce sampling sizes on all of our wines-by-the-glass. You can create your own tasting every day of the week.
Explore the rest this week's complete wine selections .
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deli feature Irish Through & Through
Cahill's Farmhouse Cheese is a third generation, family owned, artisan cheese making business, nestled in the heartland of County Limerick, Ireland. All Cahill's Farm Cheese is 100% Pure & Natural, full-flavored cheese, handcrafted in the traditional Irish way. All our cheese is made using only the freshest, wholesome, local, natural, ingredients.
CAHILL ARDAGH
This red waxed gourmet cheese truckle is called after the Smith O'Brien home of Cahermoyle, Ardagh, where this medieval monastic cheese was revived about a hundred years ago. This is an adventurous red waxed cheese, veined with red wine, was revived from an old Limerick Palatine Recipe. It has a sharp taste with a strong presence of dry red wine. Enjoyed best on crackers or crisp-bread with a glass of vintage port.
 CAHILL WHISKEY
This yellow waxed gourmet cheese truckle is hand made using Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey, then matured into a tantalisingly delicious aperitif. This is a traditional Irish monastic Cheese reputedly brought by the Irish Monks to Scotland. It is a simple vintage cheddar entwined with Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey to give a fabulous savory combination. It was originally created for festive occasions such as Harvest or Christmas, but today it can be enjoyed all year round.
CAHILL PORTER
This brown waxed gourmet cheese truckle is the original and definitive Irish Plain Porter Cheese. Each brown waxed truckle is individually handcrafted with plain Irish porter, brewed by Guinness in their Dublin at their Dublin premises since 1759. This cheese is perfect as an hors D'Oeuvre when sliced and served with a tossed salad. It is equally as good when served as a centre piece on an after dinner cheese board.
 KERRYGOLD DUBLINER
Echoes of Ireland's capital are evoked by this simultaneously simple and gourmet cheese. Quite daringly different, Dubliner is a specialty cheese with a distinctive mature rounded flavor and a natural hint of sweetness achieved by combining a secret recipe and the skills of the Kerrygold master cheese maker.
The cheese is typically matured over 12 months during which time it is checked by experienced cheese graders to ensure that it has a consistently high flavor profile. Dubliner may contain naturally occurring calcium lactate crystals which appear as small white particles in the cheese. These crystals are a rich source of calcium.
All of these cheeses - along with many more from around the world - are all available at the Gourmet Deli at Sun Singer.
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new and noteworthy For the Love of Cider!
In New England drinking habits soon underwent a marked and speedy change. English grains did not thrive well those first years of settlement, and were costly to import, so New Englanders soon drifted from beer-drinking to cider-drinking. The many apple orchards planted first by Endicott and Blackstone in Massachusetts, and Wolcott in Connecticut, and seen in a few decades on every prosperous and thrifty farm, soon gave forth their bountiful yield of juicy fruit. ~ History of Alcohol in America
 It been awhile since we've introduced such a collection of hard ciders to our collection. For fans of cider, read on... One of the best-known brands of cider in the world, Westons has been pressing and fermenting in the Herefordshire village of Much Marcle for 130 years. HENRY WESTON'S Special Reserve Cider A very special Cider made from top quality cider apples of a single year's crop. Matured in old oak vats and then selected by our Master Cider Maker as the very best of the year's vintages. Full bodied and rich in flavour. Suitable for vegetarians, vegans and coeliacs. HENRY WESTON'S Oak Conditioned Extra Dry A very dry, crisp tasting cider. Fermented and matured in old oak vats to develop its very special character and flavour. Suitable for vegetarians, vegans and coeliacs. HENNEY'S Vintage 2009 Still Cider Made from a single year's pressing and naturally still. Appley and intense with real depth of flavor. It tastes of late summer with notes of herbs, apricots and apple crumble and is the sort of cider you serve with food. SAMUEL SMITH'S Organic Cider Bright straw-gold with excellent clarity, Samuel Smith's Organic Cider has a light body, with brilliant conditioning, a crisp clean flavor, and a dry finish. The bouquet is fresh apples, with a soft floral note. OLIVER'S Herefordshire Dry Perry This still, dry perry is blended from selected varieties of vintage pears grown in orchards in Herefordshire, England. A full tasting perry, rounded with hints of citrus, with good body and a lingering pear aftertaste. |
new brew A Toast To Spring
The influx of new beers never seems to stop...isn't that a blessing! Here's what's new this week:
DARK HORSE Buffo Brown Ale
Just like most of Dark Horse beers Buffo is on the "full body" scale pushing the envelope of what an American Brown Ale is to most people. The beer is a very deep/dark color of brown with a nice creamy tan head. The mouthfeel of the beer is very soft and is very drinkable. Flavors of malt, caramel, toffee, and a mild earthy nutty finish allow this beer to be paired with hearty food and sips of bourbon. 6.5% abv
NORTH COAST Old Stock
Like a fine port, Old Stock Ale is intended to be laid down. With an original gravity of over 1.100 and a generous hopping rate, Old Stock Ale is well-designed to round-out and mellow with age. It's brewed with classic Maris Otter malt and Fuggles and East Kent Goldings hops, all imported from England.
MIKKELLER / BREWDOG
'I Hardcore You' Imperial IPA
I Hardcore You is a 9.5% Imperial India Pale Ale, an international collaborative effort between 2 of Europe's most rock 'n roll brewers. This beer is a blend of BrewDog's Hardcore IPA and Mikkeller's I Beat You. After the blending, the beer was then dry hopped a further twice. Making I Hardcore You a beer which has been dry hopped four times, or maybe even six times. As far as we are aware this is the first collaboration of this type anywhere in the world. The first time a collaboration beer has been made by blending beers from the respective brewers together. This is a one off brew with a small amount available for a limited time only.
With a bold emphasis on hop bitterness, India pale ales are the ultimate beverage pairing for spicy dishes. The sharp hop presence in most India pale ales can stand up to even the most devilish of spices in Cajun, Malaysian, Japanese, Indian, and Mexican cuisine.
MIKKELLER '10' American IPA
You might have seen Mikkeller's single hop series - 10 beers with the same IPA base, each individually hopped with a special hop. Here's the list: Amarillo, Centennial, Cascade, Chinook, Warrior, Nugget, Simcoe, Tomahawk, East Kent, and Nelson Sauvin. '10' is a an IPA with all 10 of those special hops in 1 bottle. Same IPA base as before, same abv 6.9%. It's full of citrus, tropical flavors and light malts.
EPIC Pale Ale
You can only drink so many beers in a lifetime, so you better make each one count. That's where Epic can help. They're obsessed with creating big hop-fuelled beers. This takes a shed-load of skill. It also takes a shed-load of hops. Many brewers would call that 'insane'. They call it flavor. Showcasing fresh cascade hops in all its glory! Biting, aromatic citrisy, piney hoppiness on the nose and palate, right through to the finish. A well crafted brew.
BUFFALO BILL'S Orange Blossom Orange Blossom Cream is a seasonal beer in the fastest growing category in the craft segment. Pour it into a glass and enjoy the fragrance of freshly peeled orange.Orange Blossom is brewed with sweet orange peel, orange blossom extract and honey. Even people who don't like beer swear by Orange Blossom.
GOOSE ISLAND Pepe Nero Belgian Farmhouse Style
With an aroma of roasted chestnuts and a mysteriously dark, mahogany hue, Pepe Nero is a farmhouse ale brewed with black peppercorns. His roasty sweetness melds into a lingering, earthy, black pepper finish that is ideal for pairing with grilled meats and roasted vegetables. Malt: Pilsner, Rye, Crystal Rye, Black Malt Hops: Pilgrim, Saaz 6% ABV
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Events & Tastings
Saturday Tasting 12noon - 4:00 p.m.
Every Saturday
Saturday, March 19th
Sneak Peak - click here
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Wednesday, March 16th
Whetting Your Whistle with Rob Collins
WCIA 8:30 a.m.
Brian Bowman, Wine Manager of Sun Singer
will be presenting
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luck 'o the irish &
on sale too!
Michael Collins
Irish Whiskey
375 ml Reg. 14.99
Special Price $11.99
Named for the legendary Irish hero synonymous with independence, Michael Collins Irish Whiskey is produced at Cooley, the last independent, Irish-owned distillery in Ireland.
The blend is a combination of pot and column-distilled whiskeys aged for a minimum of 4 years in small oak casks, some of which have previously been used for bourbon. The casks are stored in 18th Century warehouses where the cool, moist Irish air brings the whiskeys to maturity. The result is a blend that is light and lively on the palate, flavorful and smooth emboding the strong character, bold heritage and uncompromising authenticity of a truly remarkable Irish spirit.
Sun Singer has a great selection of whiskeys when you're feeling Irish this week or anytime:
Jameson*
Powers
Bushmills*
Bushmills Black
Danny Boy
Michael Collins*
Paddy
Red Breast 12*
Midleton*
*Available in the
Sun Singer Cafe
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Green Flash
Brewing
 This Belgian Style Dark Ale is inspired by traditional Abbey Ales to deliver the richest of malt flavors but with a slightly elevated hopping and increased complexity given from two different yeast strains. This malt laden ale is designed to satiate and keep your taste buds dancing.
Founded in 2002 by Mike and Lisa Hinkley, Green Flash located in Vista, CA specializes in brewing assertive and distinctive beers with modern twists on traditional styles.
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