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Crave-Worthy Cookies We All Scream for Ice Cream While the viniferous may turn their nose up at the thought of wine in confectionary flavors, let's face it—the consumer has catapulted the flavored beverage category through the roof. Offering a new, sweet sipper to appeal to this ever-expanding base is Ice Cream Cellars and Birthday Cake Vineyards, a project backed by two industry vets who found a unique way to explore the flavored wine category without completely losing the wine character. With smoothly sweet flavors like Dutch Chocolate, Espresso and Raspberry, these confectionary wines complement flavors already found in wine, creating a fun, approachable line that's sure to woo today's flavor-seeking customers. www.icecreamwines.com www.birthdaycakewines.com Proud Pinot In honor of Pride Month, Marketplace would like to raise a glass to Genetic Pinot Noir, a Willamette Valley Pinot made by a lesbian couple who got bitten by the wine bug while living in Napa Valley. Light, fruity and clear, Genetic is the first openly LGBTQ wine to market and is named in honor of the belief that folks are born gay. A percentage of all sales go to benefit the Napa LGBTQ Project, so you too can feel prideful about drinking good juice with a good cause. www.standtallwine.com Maybe you're one of those people who likes soft, chewy cookies, but Marketplace is all about the crunch factor. Satisfying our sweet tooth in a big way are the addictive, gourmet Cookie Chips, a line of crunchy, crispy, oh-so-delicious cookies in flavors like classic chocolate chip and sweetand-salty sea salted peanut butter. Made with all-natural ingredients and no trans fats, Cookie Chips beg to be eaten by the fistful, so a word of warning: One crunch and you'll be hooked, so if you've got your bikini-bod in mind, pack just a few for lunch. Bring the whole bag and you'll soon be left with nothing but crumbs. www.shop.hannahmax.com Love Les Bubbles With adorable packaging and an even cuter name, La Bubbly might just be le coolest thing Marketplace has seen in a while. Made in Chile's Maipo Valley, La Bubbly calls itself Sparklin' Wine for the Sparklin' Mind, and is the brainchild of two friends who claim to have been inspired by a 3,000 year old Chilean legend about a llama named Sparkle Goat. The myth may be in good fun, but the wine is serious business: Dry with ripe melonfruit flavors, La Bubbly is fun and feisty, with lots of attitude. www.labubbly.com Kooling Kombucha Kombucha has been a hot category in recent years, with health-conscious drinking clamoring for the effervescent fermented tea beverage. But for some, the sour kombucha flavor hasn't been a hit, and for them newly-released Búcha offers a totally balanced sweet/ sour taste, with the same organic, lowcal live kombucha culture that consumers already crave. We love flavors like Grapefruit Sage, Masala Chai and Raspberry Pomegranate, and think this is one kombucha for the masses. www.mybucha.com june 2013 / the tasting panel / 119 TP0613_080-119.indd 119 5/23/13 5:31 PM