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QUADY WINERY
DEVIATION
In a dream about seeking higher levels of sensory pleasure, Andrew Quady saw himself adding special plants with magical powers to a musk scented sweet wine. When people tasted this wine they came under a spell. The sweet wine seemed to give people a feeling of well being and it made them feel romantic. When he awoke he went to his garden and picked the fresh tender young leaves from the plant, ?Rose Scented Geranium? and added them to a sweet musk scented wine. In the kitchen was a container of the dried herb Damiana which Andrew was familiar with as an ingredient in teas noted for stimulating aphrodisiac effects, and he added just a pinch. Seven days later he strained the scented amber nectar into a glass and he drank. The wine was good.
One fine spring day, a year or so later, Andrew and Laurel were riding bikes around Key West in Florida and accidentally discovered a cut glass artist, Heather Clark, living in a houseboat. They commissioned Heather to make a label for the new wine which was still unnamed although they were thinking that ?Euphoria? would be a nice name. Heather Clark made a very heavy piece of cut glass depicting a nude young lady in a euphoric mood drinking an elixir while swinging beneath palm trees under a starry night in the company of flying fish. At the bottom of the piece, written in cut glass was the word: ?Euphoria?.
When the label with the nude young lady in the swing with flying fish and palm trees under a starry night was presented to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau for approval and when the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau told them in an email that the name ?Euphoria? wouldn?t be allowed on a label for an alcoholic beverage because it might make people think that the wine makes people feel good, then everyone at the Quady Winery got sad because they didn?t think they could come up with a better name than ?Euphoria?.
One evening when Andrew and Laurel and winemaker Mike Blaylock, and general manager Cheryl Russell were having dinner in Dakar, Senegal with Allison Quady, who was in Africa serving in the Peace Corps, and with Mike?s daughter Jennifer who was an exchange student in Ghana, the subject came up of the need for a new name for the romantic wine. Thus an impromptu focus group convened and the subject of deviation came up because in French (Senegal being a French speaking country) deviation means the same thing as detour in English and also in Senegal there were many deviations because the roads are very poor there. The group decided to name the wine ?Deviation? in honor of all the detours in winemaking and in everything else in life.
DEVIATION
Grape Variety: Orange Muscat
Fermentation: Was arrested with neutral grape brandy. This arrested fermentation preserves the delicate aroma of the fresh, ripe grapes. Herbs (Damiana and scented Geranium) are added to the Orange Muscat base wine and extracted as a cold infusion. This preserves the delicate notes that the herbs express. Alcohol: 15%. Reducing Sugar: Approx 140g/L
Ageing: 3 months in French oak barrels.
Serve: Chilled in small glasses and is excellent when paired with desserts and chocolate.
Tasting Golden rosy amber hue, with aromas of honeysuckle and notes of gardenia and hint of woodruff. Blood orange, herbal, white peppercorn and galangal on the palate, with a sweet and spicy pink grapefruit finish. Damiana is reputed to have aphrodisiac properties! A great dessert wine, with a difference
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