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Red
750ml
Bottle: $139.80
Rated 93 - The 2005 Chianti Classico Riserva is an impressive wine for the vintage. It boasts a serious core of fruit...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $73.20
6 bottles: $72.00
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $164.30
Turriga is a powerful red wine that requires time in bottle to show its full complexity. Upon release, Turriga is...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $155.95
Rated 94 - The 2005 Sammarco is soft, silky and impeccable balanced. Still fresh and beautifully delineated, the 2005...
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94
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $71.00
A beautiful Cabernet Franc with plums, dark fruits, violet and rose petal character. Full body, dense and chewy with...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $255.95
Rated 94 - The 2005 Barolo Monprivato is a very pretty, harmonious wine endowed with tons of purity in its fruit. All...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $175.49
Rated 93 - The 2005 Barbaresco Vigneto Valeirano opens with a huge, brooding nose of smoke, tar, and scorched earth....
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $153.95
Rated 93 - Intense ripe berry and dried fruit on the nose, with rose petal. Full-bodied, with silky tannins and a...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $54.59
Rated 94 - The 2005 Torcolato pulls you in with notes of blood orange, gingery spice, dried nectarines and roasted...
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94
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $279.00
Rocche dell’Annunziata is all about finesse, details, weightless elegance. It’s a symphony of ethereal aromas...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $893.18
Rated 96 - It is always special to taste a winemaker’s first wines, and tasting the 2005 Masseto alongside Axel...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $326.36
The first Super Tuscan, this great Cabernet allies a dense core of pure, ripe black currant fruit flavors and aromas...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $182.81
Rated 96 - Offers Christmas pudding, currant and other dried fruit. Full-bodied, with amazing concentration of ripe...
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2005 Italy 750ml

There are few countries in the world with a viticultural history as long or as illustrious as that claimed by Italy. Grapes were first being grown and cultivated on Italian soil several thousand years ago by the Greeks and the Pheonicians, who named Italy 'Oenotria' – the land of wines – so impressed were they with the climate and the suitability of the soil for wine production. Of course, it was the rise of the Roman Empire which had the most lasting influence on wine production in Italy, and their influence can still be felt today, as much of the riches of the empire came about through their enthusiasm for producing wines and exporting it to neighbouring countries. Since those times, a vast amount of Italian land has remained primarily for vine cultivation, and thousands of wineries can be found throughout the entire length and breadth of this beautiful country, drenched in Mediterranean sunshine and benefiting from the excellent fertile soils found there. Italy remains very much a 'land of wines', and one could not imagine this country, its landscape and culture, without it.