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Now this is why people call it bubbly. The first thing you’ll notice about André Champagne® Spumante is the...
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This dry and attractive sparkler tastes crisp and tangy, lifting light citrus and green apple notes with a fine bead...
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A sense of elegance and gracefulness singles this wine out. Light floral and cinnamon aromas merge into crisp but...
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Colour straw yellow. Bouquet pleasant, light, fine and delicate, fruity, with a characteristic bouquet of apple....
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• 100% Alvarinho. • From the sub-region of Monção and Melgaço. • Traditional method sparkler, aged 9 months...
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Intense yellow with highlights veering towards gold reflexes in color. Notes of fine tropical fruit with so, delicate...
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Pale yellow in color with greenish highlights and a rich tropical bouquet. Medium bodied on the palate with a...
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So pink, reflections veering towards salmon pink. Intense red berry and fruit compote aromas. Delicate but...
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The 2019 sparkling wine vintage in the Willamette Valley was precise, full of beautiful natural acidity and tension...
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A balanced blend, Pinot Noir establishes a savory core, while Pinot Meunier brings floral characteristics and...
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A lush, full-bodied Zinfandel that blaze dark berry, earth and grassy aromas that complement a rich and complex...
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750ml
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Straw yellow color with golden reflections, fine and persistent perlage. Delicately aromatic, with hints of...
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Delicately aromatic with a hint of lychee, Atto Primo Lychee is ideal on any occasion and at any time of day, when...
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Champagne Blend Petite Sirah Zinfandel 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.

Petite Sirah was first brought from France to America in the 1880s. It later went on to become one of the only grapes to make it through the devastating Phylloxera virus in the 1890s, both World Wars, and the Great Depression. During Prohibition, it was a main ingredient used to make sacramental wines. In fact, through the 1960s it was a major blending grape in a number of the finest wines produced in California.

By itself, a bottle of Petite Sirah usually has no problem making a quick impression on consumers. With a large amount of natural color and tannins, wines made with the grape commonly feature intensive sweet fruit characteristics like fresh raspberry or blackberry jam, black pepper spice, and plenty of backbone or structure.

There are a number of different styles available. Some concentrate on highlighting fresh, fruity flavors; others are bigger, more voluptuous; and it keeps going up the ladder until you reach the powerful, more machismo-style category.

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.