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Bottle: $184.94 $192.00
I have not tasted this Riserva since the 2007 vintage, so it's a great delight to sample the Azelia 2013 Barolo...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $52.50 $60.00
A more forward style of Brunate with dark berry as well as orange peel and rose petal. Medium body, firm and silky,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $120.79
6 bottles: $120.00
Aromas of rose petal and grapefruit follow through to a medium body with fine tannins and a fresh and brilliant...
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Bottle: $38.95
The 2013 Ghemme Anno Primo shows just how well these wines age. At nearly ten years of age it is just starting to...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $92.32
Beautifully seductive with ripe berry, meat and leather character that turns to cedar. Full body, soft and velvety...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $249.90
3 bottles: $244.90
The purity of this wine is pretty phenomenal with blackberries, strawberries, fresh flowers and licorice. Hints of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $38.00
The 2013 Moulin-à-Vent Le Clos du Moulin underwent double sorting, was fully-de-stemmed with no carbonic maceration,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $71.50
12 bottles: $70.07
COLOR: Ruby red color, tending to garnet with aging. PERFUME: Bouquet of berries, spices (white pepper, licorice),...
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750ml
Bottle: $80.80
6 bottles: $80.00
This estate sources Barolo grapes from four communes, but its only single-vineyard bottling is from this outstanding...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $59.93
12 bottles: $58.73
Color: Ruby red with orange tints. Perfume: Intense nose, rich in spices with dark berries and fruits and dried...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $35.94
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•100% Nebbiolo from the Mombeltramo cru vineyard. •280 meters above sea level. •Calcareous clay stratified with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $36.00
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• 100% Nebbiolo. • Malvira’s top red from their old vines in the Trinita cru of Roero. • Soil rich with...
Red
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Bottle: $35.94
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• 100% Nebbiolo from the Renesio vineyard. • Calcareous clay soil. • Harvested in October. • Fermentation and...
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750ml
Bottle: $108.00
This red is beginning to hit its stride, featuring fading cherry and berry fruit, mushroom and woodsy notes, menthol...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $199.80 $222.00
The 2013 Barolo Rocche dell'Annunziata Riserva was released in January of 2019, and once again it looks to be a top...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $76.95
Another highlight in this range, the 2013 Barolo San Rocco is utterly beguiling. The bouquet alone is striking, but...
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750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $163.28
This Barolo is developing nicely and beginning to reveal mature notes of earthy, woodsy spice and licorice, with...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $469.07
Round and smooth, with a core of cherry surrounded by leather, licorice and underbrush flavors. Tobacco and mineral...
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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $60.95
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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $88.23
Wicked complexity and richness with aromas and flavors of dried strawberries and spices. Full-bodied, layered and...
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Chardonnay Gamay Nebbiolo 1993 2013 750ml

Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.

The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.


The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.

The Nebbiolo grape varietal is widely understood to be the fruit responsible for Italy's finest aged wines. However, its popularity and reliability as a grape which gives out outstanding flavors and aromas has led it to be planted in many countries around the world, with much success. These purple grapes are distinguishable by the fact that they take on a milky dust as they begin to reach maturity, leading many to claim that this is the reason for their unusual name, which means 'fog' in Italian. Nebbiolo grapes produce wines which have a wide range of beautiful and fascinating flavors, the most common of which are rich, dark and complex, such as violet, truffle, tobacco and prunes. They are generally aged for many years to balance out their characteristics, as their natural tannin levels tend to be very high.