Firestone Walker Velvet Merkin Stout Beer, 2015 Napa Valley La Grande Dame matches perfectly

La Grande Dame matches perfectly with freshly picked vegetables

Manhattans

It’s clean

this wine confidently takes charge with intense lifted vanilla aromatics balanced with red currants

together with a hint of Gariguette strawberries

Firestone Walker Velvet Merkin Stout Beer, 2015 Napa Valley La Grande Dame matches perfectlyThe 2015 Velvet Merkin was aged in bourbon barrels from the Heaven Hill family, including Elijah Craig and Old Fitzgerald. Velvet Merkin has always been the barrel aged version of Firestone Walkers seasonal Velvet Merlin oatmeal stout. Whats different this time is that the 2015 Velvet Merkin includes a barrel aged lot of an experimental milk stout version of Velvet Merlin.