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750ml - Case of 12
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$108.00
Concentrated, powerful, and lively, Les Casse-Têtes is the very quintessence of the Meursault appellation. Its...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$108.00
Les Narvaux is an airy wine that is lively and balanced with aromas of white-fleshed fruit. It offers hints of...
750ml - Case of 12
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$162.00
This fine and sensual wine, with hints of blossom and roasted hazelnut, has a concentration that makes it discreet in...
750ml - Case of 12
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$67.50
The natural tension, power, and depth of this wine with notes of white peach and pear is a pure expression of the...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$162.00
With impoverished soil and a good aspect, Les Folatières produces a rich and opulent wine, yet one that is full of...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$162.00
More fine than corpulent, Champs-Gain is a subtle wine with citrus notes that are fresh and lively. Over time, it...
750ml - Case of 6
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$206.95
750ml - Case of 12
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$97.94
This is very aromatic and lifted with mineral, nougat, floral, and lightly cooked apples. Some flint and matchstick....
Chardonnay Grenache Rolle Mencia 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 Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.
For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.