The Wine and Cheese Place is very proud
to announce the release of
Sweet Sophie!
Available at all 4 of our locations now.
Stop by any of our stores and ask for a taste!
This batch yielded 708 bottles. Make sure you grab some before they are gone. They will make perfect gifts for this holiday season for everyone on your list.
An exciting and original project for St. Louis....
Sweet Sophie Bourbon Barrel Aged Maple Syrup...$13.99 / 250ml
Aged in a Jefferson 18 Year Old Bourbon Barrel
Serving suggestions: as a glaze for salmon, pork or bacon, as a sweetener for coffee, oatmeal, granola or yogurt, pour over ice cream and bananas, make exotic cocktails and of course on pancakes and waffles.
The possibilities are endless.
As part of our 30th Anniversary this year, The Wine and Cheese Place started buying our own barrels of Bourbon. After the bourbon was bottled, we sent the spent barrels off to local breweries to age beer for us (click to read more). Currently we have 5 Bourbon Barrel aged beers have that been released and sold out and we have another 15 barrels in the works.
What was the next step?
How about ageing some Maple Syrup in a Bourbon Barrel!!!!
So we took a rare Jefferson 18 Year Old Bourbon barrel and delivered it to 4 Hands Brewing Company to be filled with Maple Syrup.
We ordered a 55 gallon drum of 100% Organic Pure Vermont Maple Syrup and hand pumped it into the barrel back on August 8th and let it age until October 30th - almost 3 months. On October 30th, it took 3 of us almost 10 hours to bottle 708 bottles of this delicious golden nectar. We had to hot bottle it at 190 degrees, what a sticky mess. We are currently over the next couple of days hand labeling and hand dipping each bottle in wax to seal the top. On the label, it says Batch #1, but it was a ton of work, not sure if there will be another batch or not.
Right now we have about 280 bottles waxed and labeled.
Should have the rest ready next week.
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