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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $93.00
12 bottles: $87.78
Beautiful aromas of orange zest are followed by gingerbread, caramel and crème brûlée flavors. This is a...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $44.95 $48.60
Medium yellow-gold. Restrained aromas of peach and spices offer good lift. Very ripe and thick, with strong acidity...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $244.83 $253.50
12 bottles: $239.40
Barrel sample. This is the rich wine of the vintage. With its intense fruit, piles of spice, but excellent balance,...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $390.15 $433.50
Barrel sample. This is the rich wine of the vintage. With its intense fruit, piles of spice, but excellent balance,...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $34.95
12 bottles: $32.30
Sweet, rich orange marmalade flavors, maybe not as imposingly powerful as Guiraud can be, but still with a great...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $48.94
12 bottles: $47.96
This estate, owned by the same family since 1787, has amazing stocks of old sweet wines maturing in its cellars. With...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $63.95
Beautiful aromas of orange zest are followed by gingerbread, caramel and crème brûlée flavors. This is a...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $218.94
Barrel sample. This is the rich wine of the vintage. With its intense fruit, piles of spice, but excellent balance,...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $366.43
Barrel sample. This is the rich wine of the vintage. With its intense fruit, piles of spice, but excellent balance,...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $921.72
The 2006 Haut-Brion performed even better from bottle than it did from barrel. Sixty-four percent of the production...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $327.84
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $249.95
The 2006 Pavillon Blanc du Château Margaux has always been one of the pinnacle white releases from this First Growth...
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1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle: $167.95
Straw-gold. Marzipan, honey and toasted hazelnut on the nose. Moderately viscous and currently rather oaky. Has an...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $49.90
Very opulent, the wine has a velvet, honeyed texture. This richness translates into the flavors, which are of yellow...
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500ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $40.73
This wine irresistibly evokes a beautiful summer in the countryside, ripe and juicy fruits picked from the tree, the...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $109.12
This is very tight and powerful with sliced pear and apple character. Some meringue pie too. Full-bodied, firm and...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $91.95
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $570.67
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $358.54
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $48.94
This estate, owned by the same family since 1787, has amazing stocks of old sweet wines maturing in its cellars. With...
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Chenin Blanc Semillon/sauvignon Blanc White Bordeaux 1996 2006

Originating in France yet now grown in many parts of the New World, Chenin Blanc is one of the most versatile and highly regarded white wine grape varietals on earth. These green skinned grapes hold a relatively high acid content, and as such can be used for making still white wines of exceptional quality, as well as superb sparkling wines (such as the Crémant wines of the Loire Valley) and extremely aromatic dessert wines. Their natural transparency means that they are a fine grape for expressing their terroir in the bottle, and winemakers often experiment with this varietal to coax unusual and intense flavors from the grapes, such as allowing the development of noble rot on the fruit in order to make sweet and viscous wines of a unique character.

France is widely known as being the home of many of the world's finest white wines, and within France, the name which rings out across the wine world and is always associated with excellence of quality and flavor is Bordeaux. The white wines of the magnificent Bordeaux region are typically blended, and rely on the winemaker's skill and expertise to achieve the fine balance between the primary grape varietals used. Most blended white Bordeaux wines are made up of Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon and Muscadelle varietals, although there are actually nine grapes officially allowed by French wine law for the inclusion in Bordeaux white wines. The other six are Sauvignon Gris, Merlot Blanc, Ugni Blanc, Colombard, Ondenc and Mauzac, although the use of these other grapes has been in steady decline over the past century.