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A very pretty rosé with dried-strawberry and apple aromas and flavors. Some spiced-pear and iron undertones....
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750ml
Bottle: $71.82 $75.60
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750ml
Bottle: $83.94
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750ml
Bottle: $289.94 $305.20
From an excellent vintage and on lees for over six years, this exceptional bubbly is also England's most expensive...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $65.20
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#54 ENTHUSIAST 100 2022. This is a vibrant and beautifully crafted blanc de blancs. Aromas of lemon, pear and green...
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750ml
Bottle: $82.84
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A lip-smacking Champagne, with a creamy mousse, this has a nutty overtone that enriches flavors of black cherry,...
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750ml
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This is a Champagne which should be tasted for its own qualities as an aperitif, to accompany poultry with morels,...
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750ml
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750ml
Bottle: $247.95
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The first impression on the nose is both very floral and intensely creamy followed by the distinctive trademark of...
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750ml
Bottle: $210.87 $234.30
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An elegant Champagne, with a creamy, finely meshed range of pastry cream, yellow apple and pear, almond biscotti,...
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The 2014 Late Bottled Vintage Port was a few weeks from bottling when last seen a few years ago. Now seen in bottle,...
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750ml
Bottle: $34.83 $39.80
Evocative redcurrant notes play on the nose. They become more intense on the palate where lively fizz lets them mix...
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750ml - Case of 6
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The 2014 Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru L’Avizoise, from old vines in the Les Robards and Voie d'Epernay...
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750ml - Case of 6
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The 2014 Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Minéral is a powerful, intense Champagne that captures all of the...
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Champagne Blend Port Blend Zinfandel 2014 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.

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.

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.