Quady Elysium Black Muscat

Wine information: Andrew Quady s change of career from making fireworks to making wine produced an explosion of its own kind when he created Essensia from the Orange Muscat grape. It was an instant success and until 1985 he could not make enough to satisfy demand. Now Quady is the foremost American winery specialising entirely in dessert wines and continues to win medals worldwide .In 1975 Quady’s first port-like wine was made from Amador County Zinfandel. Now it is made from traditional Portuguese varietals such as Tinta Barocca and Tourigas. Quady Elysium Black Muscat another underappreciated muscat variety, is known in Europe as the table grape variety, Muscat Hamburg, one of the very few black skinned muscats. If ripened to about 25 brix, it attains a rose-like aroma and lychee like flavour. This rose-like aroma led the wine being named Elysium, Greek for heaven.

Tasting Notes: Rich berry flavour and a crystalline aroma of rose petals and lychees.

Food & drink match: It is wonderful with blue cheeses, with desserts containing red fruits (such as Summer Pudding and English favorite), with vanilla, with dark chocolate and with ice cream desserts. It can be poured over vanilla ice cream or even made into a long drink with the addition of soda or tonic water, a slice of lemon and some ice. Serve chilled.

Reviews: " A beautiful dessert wine that should influence consumers to rediscover the category. Almost as dark as a red wine, it’s soft in texture and extraordinarily sweet, with intense essence of tangerine and raspberry flavors. Hard to exaggerate the deliciousness factor." Wine Enthusiast (4/1/2011), 91pts (2009)

 
     

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