Elysium – Black Muscat, another under appreciated muscat variety, is known in Europe as a 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 litchi like flavor. This rose-like aroma led us to name the wine Elysium, Greek for heaven. Drinking this, you can almost feel you have fallen into a rose garden and been transported to heaven.

Elysium is used to either accompany or replace dessert. It is wonderful with blue cheeses, with desserts containing red fruits (such as Summer Pudding, an English favorite), with vanilla, with dark chocolate, with ice cream desserts, and candlelight. One favorite is to pour the wine onto vanilla ice cream. Serve Elysium Sundae with a glass of Elysium.

A very cool cocktail is the "Angeli Cooler". Fill a wine glass with ice cubes. Combine tonic water with Elysium (1/2 and 1/2) and a lemon wedge. The Angeli Cooler is perfect on those warm summer nights.

GOLD MEDAL: 2007 California State Fair - Best of Class CA Appellation
Los Angeles County Fair
Orange County Fair
Riverside County Farmers
2007 Tasters Guild International Wine Competition- Gold
Special Award: Critics Challenge Internati - Critics Award.
2007 World Wine Championship - 92 Exceptional.
Tastings.com - 92 pts. (2007 results not yet posted)
Silver Medal: Amenti del Vino, Jerry Mead's New World I, 2007 San Francisco International Wine Competition.

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