High Wire Distilling Southern Amaro Gifts

High Wire Distilling Southern Amaro GiftsMost amari are made with botanicals that aren't necessarily native to the places where people are crafting them. High Wire's amaro is different: an homage to the Carolinas, they expressly use herbs and roots that flourish in this region. Main botanicals are Yaupon Holly and gentian root, with wild mint, Dancy tangerine, and Charleston black tea (the only colorant used). The amaro is sweetened with neutral cane syrup, which High Wire produces

Great for whiskey drinkers who don't like things too heavy or flashy

with subtle sweetness and oakiness

Not an overblown Sauvignon Blanc with too much ripeness

Mary Taylor sources lots of wines from particular wine appellations around the world in order to showcase good production from small growers who don't have the resources to bottle their own wines

but avoiding the intense pine notes of a London dry like Beefeater

Georg Jensen is a Danish brand with Scandinavian designs that is strongly committed to developing long-term sustainability strategies and carefully sources materials

at the stipulated strength of 100 proof

medium weight

A deeply aromatic

One of the States' finest craft whiskey distilleries currently working

This Malbec from Santa Barbara isn't overly extracted or too inky: it's got deep

married with distillates of 14 herbs including chamomile