Featured Wine — Identity Tannat Rosé

The Gimenez Mendez Family has taken the Tannat grape and developed this unique rosé wine. An electric colour; a vibrant, deep sunset pink hue. Very intense aromas, soft fruits like cherries, strawberries, as well as vanilla and cream. On the palate it is full and weighty, with nice acidity. This wine is soft and cool though dry and presents a mouth with a remarkable persistence. Suitable to accompany a wide range of dishes, it is especially well suited with pasta, salads and fish.

Featured Restaurant — The Corn Exchange

It’s easy to see why The Corn Exchange is considered by many to be one of the best restaurants in Rapid City and the surrounding Black Hills / Mt. Rushmore area. The restaurant was selected by Food & Wine magazine in October of 2006 as one of America’s 50 Most Amazing Wine Experiences.

MJ and The Corn Exchange have been also been featured in Food Arts Magazine, three times in Gourmet, showcased on Rachael Ray’s Forty Dollars a Day and in the magazine Everyday With Rachael Ray. The Restaurant was also written up in Travel Section of the Washington Post,  New York Times, in CNN online Travel, as well as Better Homes and Gardens, Frommers Budget Travel, South Dakota Magazine and had a feature recipe in the September 2007 issue of Bon Appetit.

Featured Retailer — Canyon Lake Liquors

Known as the best selection from Denver to Minneapolis, Canyon Lake Liquors is quite a sight to see. From its humble and relatively small inventory in 1973 to what it has today — it is hard to imagine how the expanded selection of wine and spirits fits in the roughly two thousand square feet of space. With a cellared wine selection of all the big names from every great wine producing region in the world, dating back to the early 1990’s, Canyon Lake Liquors collection of wines is cellared in perfect conditions. Spirits include Petrus to Louis XIII cognac to Macallan 30 year scotch to Cabo Ono tequila, Papa Van Winkles 23 year bourbon. On your next visit to the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota it would be worth your time to stop and see this very impressive, albeit compact, store for yourself.