You recognize the wine, now get to know the brandy. The massest of mass market wine manufacturers, Stella Rosa, parachuted into the brandy enterprise late final 12 months, providing a trio of brandies at launch — all flavored and imported from Italy. We obtained one of many three: Tropical Ardour, which is additional described on the label, fully severely, as “tropical ardour flavored brandy.”
How a lot tropical ardour taste are you able to deal with? Properly, persist with us and also you’ll discover out.
The nostril is vague however nearer to apricots and peaches than the mango and pineapple I used to be anticipating, which is unusual as a result of Stella additionally makes a peach-flavored expression. The aromas of toasty earthiness and recent linens one expects to seek out in a younger brandy are on show, however solely barely: The extra savory qualities of the spirit handle to remain principally out of focus. The aforementioned peach high quality is instantly evoked on the palate, however this does handle to fade ever so barely towards a extra tropical mango be aware because it develops. Once more there’s the chew of an earthy spine and a barely inexperienced high quality — absolutely unavoidable in a spirit like this — however once more to my shock it’s by no means disagreeable. Equally shocking is that, whereas the completed product is easy, candy, and crammed with fruit sweet notes, it’s by no means cloying or overbearing.
There’s a imprecise implication that there’s brandy really on this bottle, however I wouldn’t dream of trying to categorise it as such, besides on a technical foundation. My finest recommendation could be to make use of this in lieu of a peach liqueur in a cocktail — although the worth tag is very excessive for such an endeavor.
70 proof.
B- / $33 / stellarosawines.com [BUY IT NOW FROM TOTAL WINE]
Stella Rosa Tropical Ardour Brandy
$33
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