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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...
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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $24.70 $26.00
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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....
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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...
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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $13.93 $15.21
24 bottles: $13.65
Extremely fresh and floral with sliced apples, stones and some white peach. Bread dough, too. Fine bead. Medium to...
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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...
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $11.74
12 bottles: $9.49
Color: Bright straw yellow with fine bubbles. Aroma: The boquet is fragrant and bursting with fruit notes. It...
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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...
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Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $31.63 $33.29
12 bottles: $25.64
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $14.08
12 bottles: $13.80
A firm Prosecco, with a somewhat aggressive bead, this offers pretty notes of ripe pear and jasmine underscored by...
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375ml - Case of 24
Bottle: $7.84
A rich, fruity taste and smooth finish make Taylor Port the perfect choice to pair with your favorite dessert. It is...
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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...
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Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $42.36
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First, a warning: this is only for those who like their rye big and brawny. It starts off innocuously with a...
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Sparkling
375ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $7.13
Pleasant floral notes color the aromas of granny-smith apples. Lively, frothy fizz, carrying sweet fruit flavors,...
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375ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $46.81
The 2017 Vintage Port, not quite bottled when seen but the final blend, is a field blend (with typical grapes like...
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Sparkling
375ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $124.95
The numbering indicates this is the 170th blending of this Champagne. This iteration has a fine poise—it's mature...
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375ml - Case of 12
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Complex aromas of tar, wet earth, dark berry and flowers follow through to a full body, medium sweet and amazing...
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Champagne Blend Port 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.

Port wine is Portugal’s great gift to the world. Coming from the ancient harbour capital city of Porto and the surrounding Douro Valley region, Port wine has been made by Portuguese vintners for at least four hundred years, although viticulture has been continually happening in the area for well over two thousand years. Port is a fortified wine, meaning it is a wine which has been bolstered by the addition of grape brandy. Originally, this was used as a method of preservation, allowing the delicate Portuguese wines to survive the journey by sea to trading partners in the UK and France. However, the wonderful taste and unique character the fortification process lends to the wine soon became massively popular, and before long, this new wine style was a hit all across Europe.


Unlike some other fortified wines, Port is made by adding brandy before the wine itself has completed its fermentation. The result of this is that plenty of the grapes’ natural sweetness is maintained in the barrel, meaning it is exceptionally smooth and rounded on the palate. Port comes in many different styles - Tawny Port wines are prized for their richness and mellow character, Reserve and Late Bottled Ports are full of fruit flavor. Vintage Port is a complex, wonderful thing - capable of standing up to some of the finest wines in the world when it comes to depth of flavor and fascinating features.

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.