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Billecart Salmon Champagne Brut Vintage 2008
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$133.89
Disgorged with four grams per liter dosage, the 2008 Extra Brut Vintage hasn't appreciably evolved since I last...
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Billecart Salmon Champagne Meunier Extra Brut Les Rendez-Vous De Billecart-Salmon N°3 NV
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$123.66
Our third stop takes in the three historic terroirs of Leuvrigny, Damery and Venteuil, where the Pinot Meunier...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$210.95
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$160.03
The velvety texture of this finely knit Champagne ripples on your palate, highlighting flavors of ginger-infused...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$244.14
A ripe and intense style, showing energy and vibrancy. Flinty, slightly earthy aromas that are more suggestive of...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$170.95
A vivid Champagne, with a fine mouse acting as a creamy swath around well-honed acidity, which defines this wine and...
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$213.98
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Boerl & Kroff Champagne Brut 2002
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle:
$3195.45
$3336.04
Most of the 2002 Brut from Boërl & Kroff was bottled in 750-milliliter bottles, so only 800 magnums were...
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Boerl & Kroff Champagne Brut 2006
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle:
$2650.45
$2688.66
The 2006 Brut wafts from the glass with aromas of ripe citrus fruit, warm bread, smoke and honeycomb that mingle with...
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Bollinger Champagne B13 2013
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$124.91
For an 8-year-old champagne this is extremely vibrant, the red-fruit character from the pinot noir grape rather in...
750ml - 1 Bottle
Bottle:
$2250.95
$2355.31
750ml - 1 Bottle
Bottle:
$1723.18
$1833.17
750ml - 1 Bottle
Bottle:
$1580.86
$1681.77
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$1551.42
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$1428.08
This blanc de noirs is produced with Pinot Noir from two tiny plots of ungrafted vines in grand cru Aÿ that were...
Champagne Blend Sherry Sideritis Pre-Arrival
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.
Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.
Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.
Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.