winemaker's notes:
Black Muscat, another underappreciated 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.
Made in the same manner as Essensia, it is used, like Essensia to either accompany or replace dessert. One favorite is to pour the wine onto vanilla ice cream. Serve Elysium Sundae with a glass of Elysium. Great with vanilla, dark chocolate, blue cheeses, and candlelight.
user reviews:
The top 3 most liked reviews for this wine.
A Customer - MA
Quady is crazy about muscats. I have a family member that is in the distribution business who has met him and comments on how "crazy" he is on his wines; you need to try them to see why. A Quady wine--especially a muscat like Essentia or Elysium--will take you to another level of quality and passion for someone who just loves wine and knows grapes well. I randomly stumbled onto his wine once from a recommendation and have sold almost a dozen friends on this wine. Regardless if you are alone or trying to enjoy a great wine (high alcohol %, too) Quady never fails. I have had many cases of Essentia and Elysium without any reservation. Great for "shocking" guests into asking you "I want a case of this stuff!"
A Customer - Georgia
Quady's black muscat is the most enchanting, reasonably-priced dessert wine I've ever tasted. While living in CA, I whimsically chose Elysium, affordable on a grad student's budget,& it ferried me away like the finest, surreal poetry exhaled under a black muscat- moon. Elysium & dark chocolate IS a magical match, not advertising hype: makes a great gift. To drink this black muscat is to fall in love, forever! 15 years of Elysium & counting, without disappointment. Ferry me on! I'd proudly give a bottle of Elysium to the snobbiest wine-discriminating connoisseur. Everyone should experience this succulent rose-petal. It blooms like a wine we have lived without and now, of course, would not.
A Customer - Sacramento, CA
I tasted this wine at the California State Fair. I prefer sweet wines & really like wines made with Muscat grapes. This was probably one of the best sweet wines I have tasted. I recommend to anyone.
