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Red
750ml
Bottle: $51.07 $51.79
6 bottles: $51.00
From Adi Badenhorst, Swartland's savoury, mineral and meaty tones chime though here, the fruit taken from a single...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $36.48 $38.40
Beautiful lemon, tangerine, honey, green herbs, and white flower notes emerge from the 2018 Carricante Bianco...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $49.94 $54.00
The 2018 Carricante Centennial Mountain Vineyard is exotic, translucent and full of character. Lemon confit, orchard...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.20
12 bottles: $18.82
Cinsault and Pais.
White
750ml
Bottle: $22.40
12 bottles: $21.95
Color: Yellow straw colored. Nose: Floral with notes of grapefruit. Taste: Excellent sapidity.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.90 $27.60
Cinsault from the historic Bechtold Vineyard in the Mokelumne River AVA of Lodi. The twenty-five acre own-rooted...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.01
12 bottles: $24.50
The 2021 Cinsault is from a nice vintage, cool and with healthy grapes that ripened well. It comes from a 65-year-old...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $59.94
#76 TOP 100 WINES OF SOUTH AFRICA 2022. Rather inviting aromas of red cherries, baked strawberries and grated nutmeg....
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White
750ml
Bottle: $26.00
12 bottles: $24.70
Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94
12 bottles: $16.60
A lifted, light red with ripe tannins, depth, and drinkability from whole bunch fermentation. As always, there is a...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $30.95
12 bottles: $30.33
From a 60-80-year-old vineyard with granitic soil. 50% foot-stomped, 50% hand de-stemmed with zaranda, fermented in...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $27.00 $30.00
The 2021 Hub, named after jazz trumpet player Freddie Hubbard because the wine comes from a higher and rockier place...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $45.00 $59.94
The pure Cinsault 2021 Miles was dedicated to Miles Davis and produced with grapes from an old vineyard in the zone...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $27.00 $30.00
The single-vineyard Cinsault 2021 Monk comes from a rented vineyard in Guarilihue-Tiajacura on silt and iron soils...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $45.00 $64.94
The single-vineyard Cinsault 2021 Newk was named for musician Sonny Rollins Newk, for Parra, the wildest jazz...
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Red
2.0Ltr
Bottle: $38.19 $40.20
6 bottles: $36.00
100% Cinsault. The name of the wine is quite literal: it is 2 liters of juicy, charming, glou-glou wine. What the...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $88.95
6 bottles: $87.17
The 2022 Pofadder is pure Cinsault from Swartland, 50% whole clusters with 20 to 28 days on the skins, raised in...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.90
12 bottles: $16.56
The 2022 Cinsault Old Vines Ungrafted hails from the Itata Valley. Garnet with a purple sheen in the glass. The nose...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $505.95
This definitive wine of pure Carricante is given extensive contact on the lees, without wood, taking its structure...
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Case only
Long-term Pre-Arrival
White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $354.71
A lovely nose of fresh flowers, lemon grass, blood orange, baked pear and toasted thyme. Medium-bodied with plenty of...
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Bourbon Carricante Cinsault Wine

Bourbon has survived all manner of difficulties and restrictions to become one of the world’s best selling and most recognizable spirits. This unique and distinctly American whiskey came from humble origins, allowing poor farmers in the fields of Pennsylvania and Maryland to make a living from their crops. Prohibition, temperance movements and conflict continuously threatened to wipe Bourbon from existence, but today the drink is stronger than ever and has a global audience of millions. Over time, it has become more refined, and innovation and experimentation has set modern Bourbon apart from other whiskey styles.

Today, the Bourbon heartland and spiritual home is in Kentucky, where the whiskey producers of northern states traveled to seek a new home, free from oppressive tax regimes in the early days. It is now far from the rough and ready spirit of yesteryear, governed by strict rules and regulations to maintain standards and keep quality high. Modern Bourbon must be made from a mash which is no less than 51% and no more than 80% corn (the rest of the mash being made from rye, wheat or barley), giving it a distinctive sweetness, and it must be aged in charred, white oak casks with no other added ingredient but water.

The varied flavors of different Bourbons come about mainly from the different quantities of the permitted grains in the mash. A larger proportion of rye will produce a spicy, peppery whiskey, whereas more wheat will result in a smoother, more subtle drink. Ageing and water quality, as well as the expertise and vision of the craftsmen who distill it, will also make a difference, meaning there is much more to Bourbon than might first meet the eye.