Easter hops in exceptionally late this year on Sunday, April 24th. For those of you who enjoy the traditional celebrations of Spring, Jackie has stocked us brimming over with treats for young and old to help celebrate the occasion.

   

From one of our favorites chocolatiers South Bend Chocolate Company our very first treat is

Bunny Crunch  and Easter Pretzels. Bunny Crunch Popcorn is a seriously delicious holiday treat that kids of all ages will devour with delight. This mouth-watering blend of caramel corn, chocolate and amaretto-flavored almonds will have your Easter guests grinning from ear to ear.

Did you know? Within the Catholic church, pretzels were regarded as having religious significance for both ingredients and shape. Pretzels made with a

simple recipe using only flour and water could be

 

eaten during Lent, when Christians were forbidden to eat eggs, lard, or dairy products such as milk and butter. As time passed, pretzels became associated with both Lent and Easter. Pretzels were hidden on Easter morning just as eggs are hidden today, and are particularly associated with Lent, fasting, and prayers before Easter. I'm not sure that the monks in France or Italy who supposedly first created pretzels had in mind how truly delightful this tradition could become. South Bend Chocolates share there tradition with the perfection of this confection - The perfect combination of salty and sweet, these mini pretzels covered in white and pink chocolate are sure to satisfy your snack craving.

I'm afraid that we're only getting started at this point. Additional Easter treats include:

Made from small-batch chocolate fudge and immediately coated in a generous layer of your choice of creamy Milk Chocolate.

Made from small-batch creamy caramel and immediately coated in a generous layer of your choice of creamy Milk Chocolate.

 

Perk up any Easter basket with these solid, all-natural milk chocolate carrots.

Facts show that the majority of people nibble away on the ears of a chocolate bunny first. Indulge in the best part-Bissinger's style: great tasting, solid chocolate that is 100% all-natural.

 

brings us:

Handcrafted chocolate truffle centers enrobed in natural pink or purple speckled white chocolate.

A crunchy mixture of coconut, jelly beans and rich milk chocolate or creamy white.

Let Sun Singer create the Perfect Easter Basket filled with all this fun. But remember with Easter on the late side all these treats are disappearing fast so get yours now before they're gone. Happy Easter from all the staff at Sun Singer!

the wine room  Wine for Passover! 

 

Passover, an eight-day springtime festival, commemorates the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egyptian bondage. Based on the injunction against eating or possessing leavened bread for eight days, Passover involves a unique set of kosher laws. Kosher consumers are most careful about what they eat on Passover. In fact, people who do not observe kosher year-round do so on Passover. According to some accounts, 40% of the kosher market revolves around the Passover holiday.

 

Passover's restrictions guard against eating food products containing any edible fermented grain products known as chometz. Included in this category are wheat, barley, oats, spelt or rye which have been leavened due to contact with water. People of the Jewish faith are expected not to derive any pleasure or benefit whatsoever from chometz. Furthermore, they may not own chometz or have chometz in his possession.

 

Ensuring that foods are kosher for Passover is even more difficult than during the rest of the year because many of the ingredients that are routinely used and produced under kosher supervision are not kosher for Passover. Barley, wheat, rye, oats, and spelt are permitted only for the baking of matzoh and matzoh meal products. Flour of these grains is mixed with water and baked in less than eighteen minutes under rabbinic supervision. Furthermore, American Jews of Eastern or Western European descent avoid legumes such as soy, peanuts, and peas, as well as corn and rice.

 

Not only do foods require special preparation in order to be acceptable for use during Passover, but all equipment used for the production of kosher for Passover items must also be kosher for Passover. Even foods and household products which meet the strict, year-round dietary regulations, and are considered kosher, are nevertheless often unacceptable, or require special preparation for Passover use in the Jewish home in order to be kosher for Passover.

 

In order for a wine to be kosher, it must be created under a rabbi's immediate supervision, with only Sabbath-observant Jewish males touching the grapes from the crushing phase through the bottling. While all wines require some sort of mold (yeast) for fermentation, kosher for Passover wine must be made from a mold that has not been grown on bread (such as sugar or fruit) and must exclude several common preservatives, like potassium sorbate. Sometimes the label will say "mevushal" or "non mevushal." Mevushal means the wine has been flash-pasteurized to 175 degrees Fahrenheit (79.44 C) and may be opened and served by a non-observant person.

 

 

 

Edradour is a unique, single Highland malt whisky, to be enjoyed in recognition of those small, significant moments that make up the ebb and flow of life. While not new to the shelves at Sun Singer, Edradour fills such a particular niche in the Scotch world that it deserves renewed recognition, especially with a selection of barrel finishes being produced.Edradour is produced in Scotland's smallest distillery - and is hand made today as it was over 150 years ago by just three men who are devoted to the time-honored methods of whisky making. Indeed equipment used at the distillery has remained unchanged since the day the distillery opened and is only just capable of producing commercial quantities. Only 12 casks of whisky are produced a week, making Edradour single malt a rare pleasure for a fortunate few.  

 

Edradour 'Straight-from-the-Cask' 

1997 Sassicaia Finish

A cask strength bottling of Edradour single malt matured in ex-Sassicaia casks. Sassicaia is a world-reknowned Italian wine made by the Incisa della Rocchetta family. This whisky spent the last 19 months of its maturation in a Sassicaia hogshead and is limited to just 464 bottles.

Edradour 'Straight-from-the-Cask' 1996 Grand Arome Rum Finish

This was distilled on the 30th January 1996 and aged in hogsheads before recasking into a rum butt (a cask that held rum, not the result of too many pies and too little exercise) on the 27th July 2006. It was bottled on the 1st May 2008 at cask strength.

Edradour 12 year Doug MacLeans Caledonian Selection

A special bottling of Edradour 12yo. Songwriter Dougie Maclean has selected this single Oloroso cask from 1997 as part of the Homecoming celebrations and named it after his most famous song, Caledonia. This is the first in what will be an ongoing series from Edradour.

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BORDER

We've had the privilege of beefing up our whisk(e)y selection over the last half year, but this is the first time that we've added to our collection from our Canadian friends North of the Border. Here's two new additions for Canadian Whiskey drinkers and those considering 'crossing over':

Pendleton  

Blended Canadian

Pendleton Whisky is an oak barrel-aged whisky distilled in Canada using the finest ingredients. Before bottling, Hood River Distillers in Oregon adds only the purest glacier-fed spring water from Mt. Hood (Oregon's highest peak). Pendleton Whisky delivers an uncommonly smooth taste and a rich, complex flavor.

Pendleton Whisky was specifically created to celebrate the bold spirit of independence and hard-work ethic of the American cowboy and cowgirl. It's borne of the rich tradition of the 100 year old Pendleton Round-Up, one of the most prestigious rodeos in the world. Each Pendleton Whisky bottle prominently features the rodeo's famous bucking horse symbol and Let'er Buck slogan. Pendleton Whisky can be enjoyed straight, on the rocks or with your favorite mixer.

Snake River Stampede Premium Blended Canadian

Looking at the label of Snake River Stampede Canadian Whisky, you can almost hear the thunder of the hoof beats of the stampeding horses.

The bottle and the label of Snake River Stampede Canadian 80 proof Canadian Whisky, sends you back to an earlier day in Canyon County in Nampa Idaho, where for over 90 years the men and women of America's wild west have gathered to kick up some dust and bust some broncos. Great cowboys, like Gene Autry and Dean Oliver, three time all around rodeo champion and many other hard working no bull cowboys and cowgirls that keep the rodeo spirit alive we lift our Snake River Stampede Canadian Whisky to you " Open the gate".

Creamy butter and vanilla right off the nose, with some high reaching fruit notes, butterscotch, and light oak as well. In the mouth this is stone cold Canadian bliss - biscuits, graham crackers, and soft, creamy grains with some spicy rye on the finish, somewhat standard for the style, but in no way boring. Juicy and drinkable to the very end.

Time to saddle up and point your pony toward the sunset...don't forget your ipod!