What's New?

We hear that question so often at Joe Canal's. While we all have our favorites, we also like to find something new. Our buyers evaluate products from all over the world, just to find the best items, and the best values, to share with you. Here is a select list of some of the newest products in our store. As always, we can't list everything here. If you're looking for our newest products, just ask one of our team members.

Clase Azul Tequila

Clase Azul Reposado

Each bottle of Clase Azul Tequila is literally touched by the human spirit. The love and nurturing our craftspeople put into producing Clase Azul starts in the agave fields and is continued through the bottling process where, in our own facility each bottle is created by hand.

Clase Azul is world renowned for its superior quality and rich flavor profile. The attention to quality begins with the selection of the finest organic agaves and extends to the spirit's decanters, which feature handcrafted artwork from Mexican artists, and are meant to add an additional layer of sophistication to the experience of Clase Azul.

The Reposado: For many years, tequila connoisseurs have praised Clase Azul Reposado for its superior taste and stunning handmade decanter. By definition, reposado translates to "rested" or "calm" which can certainly influence the experience of sipping this particular Clase Azul which is aged in used American oak barrels for eight months after it has gone through the distillation process. Each bottle is made with high quality white ceramic and then hand painted by artisans in our bottling facility. Attention to detail comes second to none, which is evident when admiring what is considered an iconic bottle. $83.99 in the Bottle Club®.

Clase Azul Plata

The Plata: Clase Azul Plata is a fresh tasting blanco tequila produced from 100% organic blue weber agave. The agave is slow cooked in traditional brick ovens for 72 hours and then distilled using a proprietary yeast developed by our master distiller. Plata is not aged and the natural colors that come from the slow cooking are filtered out prior to bottling in a stunning crystal clear bottle with blue accent at its base. $69.99 in the Bottle Club®.

As far as bottle designs go, tequila seems to be far ahead of every other spirits type. Consider that Milagro and Kah tequilas also have very distinct bottles. Other than Crystal Head Vodka, there aren't many truly unique spirits bottles on the market.

Tikveš Bela Voda 2011

A new vintage of a wine that we haven't had for a while. As early as in Roman times, a tradition in Macedonia was flourishing - a tradition to craft enchantingly powerful wines exhibiting the scent of the south, having a symphonic flavour and epitomizing the joyfulness of Macedonians. Tikveš Winery is one of the most important creators of this tradition. For more than 125 years, the sky, land, sun and vineyards in the south of Europe, each with its own share, have been a part of the story about Tikveš wines. Tikveš Winery has been crafting and aging premium Macedonian wines … ever since 1885.

This terroir wine comes from the Bela Voda region which is composed of clay soils enjoying soft Mediterranean climate. As a blend of the Vranec and Plavec varieties, this wine exhibits cocoa and wild black fruit aromas as well as a rich fruity structure.

Did we mention that this wine rated 94 points from Wine Advocate? Their review: "Looking at their upper-tier cuvee, which comes from a warmer, slightly lower elevation vineyard, the 2011 Bela Voda (a 50/50 blend of Vranec and Plavec) offers a beautifully complete profile, with classy aromas and flavors of creme de cassis, licorice, graphite and floral nuances to go with a full-bodied, elegant and nicely focused profile on the palate. Still showing the hedonistic, sweetly fruited slant of the estate, it has solid concentration, ripe tannin and impressive length. Enjoy it over the coming 5-6 years, although who knows, it could certainly last longer."

Only $16.99 in the Bottle Club®.

Domaine Alphonse Mellot Edmond Sancerre 2011

The appearance: Pale gold yellow in color with light green sheen - brilliant, bright and clear - a young honest appearance.

A rich majestic nose. All is rich, ripe and powerful, whether it is fruity or floral. Density, depth and balanced graceful "majestic nature" are established from the outset. Honey, vanilla, lemon, brioche etc., follow each other as if in a daydream, all orchestrated through a new woody tone.

Opening it makes it welcoming and tender with crisp plants revealing aniseed, menthol, liquorice and spices. The effect is extensive, lively and gluttonous, ideally balanced between being highly well rounded and agreeably crisp. Smoothly rounded it gives full measure in establishing liquorice and aniseed, lime and vanilla, pepper and Muscat. The long spicy and woody finish is carved in flint.

All is rich in this virile whole: structure, substance, aromas, minerals. When older, it should accentuate its buttered, grilled and vanilla coated hints favoring a better place for the mineral.

Pairings: Belon oysters, crayfish cooked in a court-bouillon, scallops in caramelized chicory, sauteed Sancerre chicken with mixed vegetables in butter, chitterlings sausage in mustard seed, fresh Chavignol goatsmilk cheese, blue and remade, fresh fruit topped with toasted cheese in Sancerre zabaglione, egg whites with vanilla custard.

$65.99 in the Bottle Club®. Rated 91-92+ by Wine Advocate. From their review: "Tasted from both a wooden fermentor and demi-muids representative of the vessels in which the entirety of this cuvee would reside until bottling, the Mellot 2011 Sancerre Edmond exhibits rarified, high-toned, Chartreuse like herbal and floral aromas. On its rich yet surprisingly buoyant and infectiously juicy palate, it introduces chicken stock and sweet-saline, scallop-like savor to an otherwise chalk-inflected matrix of citrus, quince, and melons, making this in its own way one of those not infrequent instances between Mellot’s two most recent collections when one is reminded of Chablis. This long-finishing beauty really sets the imagination and salivary glands working, and I imagine it will do so for at least the better part of a decade."

Cheers!