Brilliant green hue.
Aroma starts as honeysuckle, leading to honey, fig and sweet oak, lingering long on the palate.
It's meant to be paired with a cream-based confection. In the United States, the modern celebration of Mother's Day is credited to Anna M. Jarvis, who wanted to do something special for her mother, Anna Reeves Jarvis. On the second Sunday of May 1907, the daughter convinced the pastor to hold a Mother's Day service in honor of her mother at the Methodist Church in Grafton, W.V. Carnations, her mother's favorite flowers, were supplied at that first service. White carnations were chosen because they represented the sweetness, purity and endurance of a mother's love. Red carnations, in time, became the symbol of a living mother.