Wine Blog

Cookie Cake Pie with Brownie Chunk Cookie and Hazelnut Cake 9″-Topped with Grape and Cherry Butterfly Gummie
Our Cookie Cake Pie is baked in a pie pan, with cookie dough on the bottom and our delicious cake on top, than our fondant icing poured on top. It makes a great surprise for any occasion.

Olives With Chardonnay Wine
Our pearl onion stuffed olives are impossible to resist! An extra large olive is stuffed with a sweet, crunchy pearl onion and placed by hand in our famous marinade. Tasting these delicacies is a memorable experience! California is one of the worlds most prolific olive growing regions with over 30,000 acres planted in the San Joaquin & Northern Sacramento Valleys. It is from this fertile land that the large gems found in every jar of Small Pleasures Gourmet Stuffed and Spiced Olives are carefully nurtured. We select only the finest fruit and meticulously inspect every olive for color, texture & size before it’s stuffed or spiced by hand and aged in our carefully crafted marinades. (The result is a line of premium quality olive delicacies with complex & unique taste profiles that are unlike anything that youll ever find in any grocery store!) When the fabulous fruit inside the jar is packed in beautiful Italian square jars, complete with matching bonnet, the entire package is complete. Small Pleasures Gourmet Stuffed and Spiced Olives make a perfect specialty food gift that many of your customers will find to be irresistible!

Nero D’Avola Wine Jelly by San Matteo
To describe the location of the San Matteo farm is immediately to want to go and live there: it’s set amidst a splendid and extensive citrus grove, that looks out over the sea at the enchanting gulf of Taormina on the one side, and up to Mount Etna on the other. Add to that the naturally mild climate, the highly fertile volcanic soil, the skill and passion of Carlo Limone, the use of organic agriculture, and you begin to understand why the products of this company are so good.

Take this Red Onion Preserve, for example: on opening the jar you are greeted by the delightful sweet onions perfume. Well, this seems to be a preserve for real experts, but in fact it is simply a gourmet preserve, one of those you are tempted to match with anything savory you’ll find in your kitchen, fresh and aged cheeses, meats and hams, to bring the colors and the flavors of Sicily at home.

All that remains is to emphasise that production is artisanal, the product free of preservatives and that, instead of using caster sugar, wheat-syrup is employed to allow reduction in total sugar content.

Carlo Limone has just recently added two oustanding wine jellies to his preserve selection: made with white Inzolia grapes and red Avola grapes, the jellies utilize two ancient and ultra typical Sicilian grape varieties to which cane sugar is added as the only other ingredient. The result is a creamy gelatin infused with wine flavor (minus the alchool content) that elegantly marries the taste of young cheeses and roasted meats. Mix a few teaspoons of wine jelly with fresh ricotta for a delicious and original spread.