Spread the Warmth Suggestion #4: Tipsy Tinsel Tipples

 

 

Fans of Edible Skinny know that we love the tingling tinsel world of holiday tipples!  Drinking some booze always helps to keep the season bright!   So if you’re looking for that last minute gift for the imbiber in your life or just for yourself to get through the family all gathering together, here’s a couple of our favorites! 

Essensia Orange Muscat

The California based Quady Winery creates sweet and aperitif wines that are perfect for a special occasion!  Their Golden Essenia is a full bodied sweet wine that tastes like spiced orange marmalade and has a fortified alcohol rate of 15%.  A straight glass is perfect with chocolate, cheesecake or goat cheese.  And for those looking for something on the lighter side this dessert works great for spritzers! 

Grand Marnier Raspberry Peach

It’s everything you love about the cognac of Grand Marnier, but with a sassy raspberry twist!  This season the iconic brand released a Raspberry Peach to their Signature Collection!  This rose colored liqueur is a blend of the natural flavors of succulent European raspberries and red peaches from Ardeche in the South of France that is then blended with the classically flavored orange essence cognac.  Edible Skinny found this to be a fabulous touch to create that perfect distinctive fruity cocktail such as a Grand Raspberry Peach Cosmo!

High West Campfire Whiskey

High West is a favorite brand of Edible Skinny ever since we got into the world of brown liquor.  And while at the Sundance Film Festival in January, we were able to experience High West’s fantastic Campfire Whiskey, the world’s only blend of Scotch, Bourbon, and Rye Whiskeys. 

 

The exact blend of this concoction is top secret but we do know that the breakdown is the following: the Bourbon is the main flavor, while the Rye is the enhancing flavor, and the accent is found in the Scotch whiskey.  The result is a sweet, spicy, and smoky taste that is perfect on the rocks around a campfire roasting S’Mores. 

So whatever you poison here’s to Holidays full of Tipsy Tingling alcohol and life being delicious!    

 

The Wonderful World of Sundance (Part Two)

Today’s post is a mishmash collection of other things Edible Skinny experienced while at Sundance!

Branding is a BIG part of Sundance and one of the largest brand integrations in Park City, Utah was the Acura Studio.  Designed as a place for festival attendees to charge their phones with complimentary chargers (drained batteries are death at Sundance), take a photo in their new 2015 TLX, and refuel with complimentary Intelligentsia coffee. Boom!!! 

According to my tasting companion the coffee (she sampled their Black Cat Classic Cappuccino) was the best on Main Street (sorry La Colombe).   

Because they like to be fancy and such, Intelligentsia also offered two Pour Over Coffees: a Finica Santuario from Colombia and Zirikina from Rwanda.   As I’m off the hardcore caffeine berries so I partook in the Golden Needles Reserve Teas with a flavor profile of Malt, Chocolate, and Baking Spice it was the divine jolt I needed on our last day at Sundance. 

While at Sundance we were invited to the Chobani party at Park City Live (via Twitter, based on our last blog post!).  While there we ate waaaaaay too much cheese and were introduced to soul singer-songwriter Miss Tess Henley out of LA by way of Seattle who is absolutely Auh-Mazing!!!

Last March, soul singer-songwriter Tess Henley caught the ear of multi-Grammy winning producer, Don Was (Rolling Stones, John Mayer, Bonnie Raitt), who described Tess as “a true voice & a strong sense of who she is.  When I listened to her perform, I could envision the complete record we would make together. She has a true gift.  Was selected Henley from over 10,000 performers as part of Guitar Center’s Singer-Songwriter Artist Discovery Program.  Not only does Tess have her Wonderland EP coming out on February 10, which was produced by Don (and you should totally get), but she recently made her national TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel's show.

We were also lucky enough to get back to High West Distillery for one more drink! As I said in my previous post, High West distills amazing and awesome craft whiskey and spirits.  Their Park City restaurant offers a unique experience as the world’s only ski-in distillery and gastro-saloon. 

This time I sampled Dead Man’s Boots made up of Rendezvous Rye, El Jimador Reposado Tequila, Lime Juice, Ginger Beer, and Simple Syrup!  The blend of tequila and rye was the perfect pick me up on a toe freezing Utah afternoon.  

Uncompromised flavor in a cocktail from one of the best distilleries West of the Mississippi!  That’s the Sundance spirit!

Edible Skinny Does Sundance 2015!!!

Edible Skinny is Park City, Utah for Sundance 2015 (in our opinion one of the most magical places on Earth… you never know when you’ll end up in Tutu on Main Street)!!!

And everywhere we go there’s food and luxury branding! 

So far we’ve check out the Chobani Park City cafe at 268 Main St, inside Sundance TV HQ, a Chobani Creation pop-up bar that includes delicious sweet & savory creations and hot La Colombe Coffee (with a custom Chobani blend). 

Chobani estimates it will distribute more than 4,800 sample creations each day, both sweet and savory, as well as a number of other Chobani-related foods such as soups, pastries and even Greek Yogurt Truffle & Parma Popcorn.  Our favorites were the decadent (yet healthy) dark chocolate and hazelnut yogurt and their Chobani yogurt oatmeal cookie sandwich.  Both a different take on how to use this powerhouse Greek yogurt!  

Edible Skinny also got to savory the magical experience known as High West Distillery!!!

High West distills amazing and awesome craft whiskey and spirits.  Their Park City restaurant offers a unique experience as the world’s only ski-in distillery and gastro-saloon. 

The waiting line to get a drink at the bar and then take it outside (yes you read that right… to get a drink at the bar and then take it outside) was 20 minutes but when I finally got to that first sip of their take on a Manhattan (using their spectacular Campfire Whiskey and totally out of season blueberries) while sitting standing next to their hand crafted camera ice sculpture donned ice bar it was worth it! 

 

High West Distillery crafts spirits for people who want great taste and appreciate quality ingredients, small batches, and the owner’s personal touch.  They use the best local, mountain ingredients and distill in a traditional copper pot still.  Their Campfire Whiskey is the world’s only (and possibly first) blend of Scotch, bourbon and rye whiskeys (and its fantastic!!!).

High West is totally bought for most of Sundance 2015 but if you can get on the wait list to get a drink at the bar and then take it outside do it!!!