The year was 1835. It was a cold March day when 31 year old Owen Fee first set eyes on America. He had been born in Ireland’s County Monaghan. By 1847 Owen had opened a butcher shop and was living in Rochester, New York with his wife, Margaret, and their three children, James, Mary Jane, and Owen Jr. Within the next three years two younger brothers were added to the family. John Fee was born in 1848. (This was also the year that Owen Sr. became a US citizen.) Joseph arrived in 1850. Later, the records of St. Bridget’s Church indicate that six-year-old John and his 15 year-old brother, James were the first altar boys there when it formed in 1854. It is said that John Fee always had a sparkle in his eye, a good sense of humor and a ready laugh. He raised his son with those same attributes and also with good business sense. John died in 1912 at the age of 64, leaving John, Jr. to succeed him. One year later, at the age of 20, John, Jr. enlisted in the New York Cavalry. During his five-year service John was assigned to the Mexican border. At that time the U.S. was engaged in the Mexican Border Incident with Pancho Villa. Upon returning to Rochester, John, Jr. continued working alongside his cousins, Marguerite and J. Leo and his Uncle James until April of 1920 when James died at the age of 79. Fee Brothers had been passed on to the next generation. Many years have passed since the little saloon/delicatessen was established in 1863. Now, at the beginning of the new millennium, the fourth generation of Fee’s is looking ahead with positive anticipation. The care that Fee Brothers puts into bottling their products and the concern for each and every customer’s needs carries the company into the future. The Fee family takes pride in their company’s history by displaying this little verse: The House of Fee by the Genesee since eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

Made from natural ingredients. Fragrance and flavor: refreshing mint flavor, very strong and intense. The mint gives the bitter cocktail / drink a slightly greenish tinge.

• Product Code: CV05FBR
• Grower: Fee Bros.
• Spirit Type: Bitters
  
• Style: Aromatic and Berries
  
• Country: USA
• Appellation: New York
• Alchohol: 35.8% ABV
• Case Size: Single
• Bottle Size: 18cl

Vintage Rating on this wine was 92 (source: Competition Award Winner)

Closure: STELVIN

Alternative wine closures are substitute closures used in the wine industry for sealing wine bottles in place of traditional cork closures. The emergence of these alternatives has grown in response to quality control efforts by winemakers to protect against "cork taint" caused by the presence of the chemical trichloroanisole (TCA).

Screw caps or "Stelvin caps" are closures made only from aluminium material that threads onto the bottleneck. They are the predominant closure used by New Zealand wineries.[8][9] This can be attributed in part to the New Zealand screw cap initiative which promotes the use of screw caps instead of cork. Screw caps form a tighter seal and can keep out oxygen for a longer time than cork. These benefits aid in maintaining the wine's overall quality and aging potential.

Vino-Seal, or Vino-Lok, is a plastic/glass closure released by Alcoa. Since its introduction into the European market in 2003, over 300 wineries have utilized Vino-Seal. Using a glass stopper with an inert o-ring, the Vino-Seal creates a hermetic seal that prevents oxidation and TCA contamination.

Zork is an alternative wine closure that seals like a screw cap and pops like a cork. The Zork closure consists of three parts; an outer cap providing a tamper evident clamp that locks onto the band of a standard cork mouth bottle, an inner metal foil which provides an oxygen barrier similar to a screw cap, and an inner plunger which creates the ‘pop’ on extraction and reseals after use.

The traditional crowned bottle cap has been used in the sparkling wine industry as a closure during the bottle fermentation process (méthode traditionnelle). Normally the cap is replaced with a cork before shipping, though recently some producers are releasing wines using the crown cap as their closure.

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