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Complex and distinctive, with pear, nectarine and Honeycrisp apple flavors, salted melon accents and a savory note of...
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This is more bone than flesh, with a wiry tannic structure around a core of savory, damson plum and blood orange...
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750ml
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The 2021 Chardonnay (Santa Cruz Mountains) is a gorgeous appellation level wine, and also a wine that will drink well...
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750ml
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Coming all from the Santa Cruz Mountains, the 2017 Pinot Noir Santa Cruz Mountains Alesia is similarly colored yet...
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White
750ml
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Straw color. Aromas of citrus blossom, green apple, yuzu, and sea spray are supported by flavors of quince, pear...
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The 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon is fabulous. A rush of floral and spice notes leads into a core of racy purplish fruit....
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#52 in Top 100, 2022. A brilliant, youthful, unevolved wine that will give Ridge's Monte Bello a run for its money,...
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750ml - Case of 12
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The 2017 Chardonnay Estate is beautifully expressed this vintage, scented of warm citrus, honeycomb and a singular...
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The varietal character emphasizes wild strawberry, earth, blueberry and dill. Elegance and transparency is the key to...
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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $167.23
I loved the 2019 Pinot Noir Alpine Vineyard, a spicy, perfumed, more ethereal Pinot Noir from a great vineyard in the...
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• Practicing Biodynamic. • 100% Pinot Noir. • Horseshoe Vineyard (Santa Cruz Mountains AVA). • Elevation...
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The 2019 Pinot Noir Horseshoe Vineyard is one of the most powerful, structured wines in this lineup. It has so much...
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United States California Santa Cruz County 750ml Santa Cruz Mountains

Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.

California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.