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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.17 $21.30
12 bottles: $17.52
Plenty of fruit on the nose with a nice reductive and peppery edge. Dark cherries and strawberries with spiced plums...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.93
Blackberries, blueberries, terra cotta, brick and white pepper on the nose. Medium-bodied with very tight and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.70 $13.00
Notes of ripe blackberries and raspberries with hints of blue flowers, young walnuts and crushed stones. Juicy and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.93
12 bottles: $25.41
The 2021 Malbec Reserve from Altos Las Hormigas, sourced from Paraje Altamira and Gualtallary in the Uco Valley,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94
12 bottles: $15.44
Fruity nose of cassis, candied cherries, milk chocolate and sweet spices. Medium-bodied with powdery tannins. Fruity,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.89 $17.49
12 bottles: $15.83
This is a very successful Zinfandel, blending earth, spice and fruit into a savory, yet thirst-quenching package....
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $22.94
12 bottles: $22.48
• 100% Pinot Noir. • Single vineyard, Nine One Six Vineyard, Steels Creek. • Grey loam topsoil over grey/yellow...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.90
12 bottles: $16.56
The 2021 BenMarco Malbec was produced with fruit from Los Chacayes in Valle de Uco, fermented destemmed in stainless...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $15.05
12 bottles: $14.75
A classic dry and crisp Brut from clay and chalk soil vineyards in the Anjou and Touraine regions of the Loire Valley...
Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $15.41
12 bottles: $15.10
A classic dry and crisp Brut Rosé made of 100% Cabernet Franc from clay and chalk soil vineyards in the Anjou and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.90 $26.80
12 bottles: $22.04
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $43.90 $48.72
A full-bodied red with olives, blackberries, wild blueberries, mussel shells and hints of licorice on the nose. Fresh...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.91
12 bottles: $13.99
Lots of fruit and flowers here. Elegant violets, dark cherries and a fine twist of peppery spice. Quite juicy on the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.36 $20.40
12 bottles: $16.63
A nicely juicy and fine-grained malbec with restrained sweet spices, blackberries, blueberries and a hint of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.94
12 bottles: $12.35
Sweet berries and cherries with some dusty-earth aromas that follow through to a medium body, light tannins and a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.93 $15.48
12 bottles: $11.58
Flavors of cranberries and raspberries, leading to notes of red fruits, marionberry pie and baking spices.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.64 $19.60
12 bottles: $15.83
Deep red and purple in color, this wine has welcoming aromas of dark fruits with a tinge of licorice. A sip reveals a...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $17.86 $18.80
12 bottles: $17.42
Colour: Straw yellow. Perlage: Fine and persistent. Fragrance: Delicate fruity aromas, notes of bread crust and...
Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $22.00
12 bottles: $21.56
The 2021 Brut Nature Valdobbiadene Sui Lieviti is intense, wafting up with a burst of sea spray, chlorophyll and...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $19.60
12 bottles: $19.21
The 2021 Extra Brut Valdobbiadene Rive di Col S. Martino Castel de DonĂ  is a total pleasure, lifting up with a...
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Champagne Blend Malbec Zinfandel 2021 750ml

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.

The purple Malbec variety grapes which now grow all over the Old and New Worlds had their origins in France, where they are one of the few grape varieties allowed to be used in the highly esteemed blended wines of Bordeaux. However, it is perhaps the New World Malbec wines which have attracted the most attention in recent years, as they thrive in hot southern climates in ways they cannot in their native country, where the damp conditions leave them highly vulnerable to rot. Malbec grapes are renowned for their high tannin content, resulting in full-bodied red wines packed with ripe, plummy flavors and held in their characteristically dark, garnet colored liquid. In many countries, Malbec is still used primarily as a varietal for blending, as it adds a great level of richness and density to other, lighter and thinner varietals. However, single variety Malbec wines have been greatly on the rise in recent years, with some fantastic results and big, juicy flavors marking them out as a great wine for matching with a wide range of foods.

The precise origins of what became known as the Zinfandel grape variety are uncertain, although it has clear genetic equivalents in both Puglia and Croatia. However, when it was brought to the New World in the mid 19th century, it became known as the Zinfandel, and has been consistently popular and widely grown ever since. These very dark and very round grapes have a remarkably high sugar content, resulting in relatively high levels of alcohol in the wines they are made into, with bottles often displaying as much as fifteen percent. What makes the Zinfandel such an interesting grape, though, is the fact that the flavors produced by this varietal vary considerably depending on the climate they are grown in. In cooler valley regions, the Zinfandel grapes result in wines which hold strong flavors of tart and sweet fruits; raspberry, redcurrant and sweet cherry, held in a very smooth and silky liquid. Conversely, warmer regions result in more complex and spicy notes, including anise, pepper and hedgerow berries.