Brandy Metaxa 7*, gift box, 0.7 L
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Brandy type:
Grape Brandy
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- Strength: 40%
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Grape varieties:
Sultana/Sultanina, Savatiano, Black corinth
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Aging type:
Barrel aging
Tasting Notes
Brandy color of dark amber with a touch of old gold.
Brandy has a perfectly balanced structure, warm, pleasant spicy taste with expressive notes of honey and black raisins, which are trapped in a long velvety finish.
Rich aroma of Muscat and ripe peach tones complement prune, carob and honey from the meadow grasses.
All the charm of a beverage can feel using it alone or with ice as a digestif. Metaxa 7 * is also good in combination with tonic and in cocktails.
Interesting Facts
Metaxa 7 stars - special drink collection Metaxa, has its own unique character. Alcohols, on the basis of which it was created, aged in barrels for more than seven years. Metaxa 7 * bottled-like image of ancient Greek amphorae. It is in such vessels the ancient Greeks kept their best wines. Metaxa 7 Star Wine Enthusiast magazine Listed in the list of drinks that are recommended to buy - Best Buy.
Brandy Metaxa - the most famous strong drink in Greece, it got its name from a man with "a great sense of taste" and excitement entrepreneur - Spyros Metaxa. Founder of the House METAXA set an ambitious goal of creating a unique beverage with a high strength and a soft aromatic taste. Overcoming complexity and risks, Spyros Metaxa achieved tremendous success in achieving its goal. Brandy Metaxa - delicious, soft, but it's nice refreshing drink. Its production started in 1888 and within a few years became the exported products to different countries of the world.
The basis of the recipe Metaxa - a distillate, which is made from wine, consisting of three grape varieties: Sultanina, Savatyano and Black Corinth. After distilling spirits bottled in small French oak barrels Limousin, where, depending on the type of future brand, they are aged from 3 to 30 years. Ripe alcohols blended with gorgeous muscat wines, extracts of May rose petals and Mediterranean herbs that give the drink softness and richness; blend then placed for six months in large oak casks. Before filling brandy cooled for two days and filtered beverage thus rendered resistant to precipitation.
Today, S and E and A Metaxa ABE remains true to the traditions and implements a particular style of METAXA, created by the founder of the House.
