×
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $33.01
12 bottles: $29.42
This offers fresh and attractive fruit aromas with a gently flinty, white-peach and white-flower fragrance on offer....
JS
91
WE
90
Rapid Ship
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $32.45
Peach, lemon, grapefruit, biscuit and some honey on the nose. Creamy and round with a juicy, peachy and lightly...
12 FREE
JS
92
UBC
91
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $28.44
12 bottles: $27.87
The NV Brut Tradition Grand Cru is fabulous. Rich, ample and creamy in the glass, the Brut Tradition captures all of...
VM
92
WS
91
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $15.94
12 bottles: $15.62
A firm, focused sparkler, with a pleasingly crisp, lightly chalky texture, this offers a subtle, savory overtone of...
DC
90
WS
90
Sale
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $24.70 $26.00
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $37.01
12 bottles: $36.26
The 2013 Brut Cuvée Empreinte is endowed with notable richness and body, yet remains super-elegant and refined....
12 FREE
VM
93
WS
93
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $38.95
12 bottles: $38.17
Disgorged in June 2019, the latest release of Geoffroy’s perennial superb NV Brut Premier Cru Rose de Saignee is...
12 FREE
WA
93
VM
92
Sale
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $11.30 $12.56
12 bottles: $8.55
Finally a wine to match your shine! Ruffino Lumina Prosecco is a wine kissed by the Italian sun, with hints of peach...
Sale
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $11.15 $11.74
12 bottles: $9.49
Color: Bright straw yellow with fine bubbles. Aroma: The boquet is fragrant and bursting with fruit notes. It...
Sale
Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $23.08 $24.29
12 bottles: $16.62
At once profound spicy and sumptuously sweet on the nose, with bold aromas of black pepper and morning bun. The...
UBC
90
Sale
Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $31.63 $33.29
12 bottles: $25.64
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $40.94
12 bottles: $40.12
Pretty nose of pie crust, caramel, grilled pineapple, apricot, praline and treacle tart. Delicious, rich, salty and...
12 FREE
JS
93
WS
92
Rapid Ship
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $34.94
Lemony richness on the nose, a struck match character that falls in with lemon vanilla note. Toffee apple allure on...
12 FREE
DC
94
W&S
91
Sale
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $34.19 $37.99
There is a hint of quinine to the attractively fresh and yeasty nose that displays plenty of citrus and green apple...
DC
90
WS
90
Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $42.36
12 bottles: $38.30
First, a warning: this is only for those who like their rye big and brawny. It starts off innocuously with a...
12 FREE
WE
96
WKY
91
Case only
Long-term Pre-Arrival
Sparkling
375ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $60.32
Case only
Long-term Pre-Arrival
Sparkling
375ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $62.03
Case only
Long-term Pre-Arrival
Sparkling
375ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $122.60
The numbering indicates this is the 170th blending of this Champagne. This iteration has a fine poise—it's mature...
DC
96
VM
96

Champagne Blend Rye Whiskey 375ml

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.

Rye Whiskey is enjoying something of a renaissance of late, with sales rocketing in recent years thanks to a growing interest in strong, unique flavors, and small, independent distilleries. Rye Whiskey is a drink which is all about powerful, bold flavors, with plenty of spice and bitterness when drunk young. Aged, however, it takes on a deep set of subtle notes which are beautifully mellow and complex, and becomes a fascinating example of what whiskey can be when made with expert hands.

In order for an American Whiskey to be labeled a Rye Whiskey, it must have a mash content which is no less than fifty one percent rye. This separates it from Bourbon, and it is this which gives it its distinctive flavor and spiciness. Toffee, cinnamon, caraway, cloves and oak are typical tasting notes, and ‘straight rye’ whiskies - which are aged in charred oak barrels - take on plenty of the smokiness of the wood, adding a further, fascinating facet.

Rye Whiskey has its spiritual home in the northeastern states of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and cities like Pittsburgh produced vast quantities of Rye Whiskey in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most the old distilleries were closed during the prohibition era, after which time rye whiskey more or less disappeared completely, but the twenty-first century is seeing old recipes being resurrected and released to rave reviews.