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750ml - Case of 12
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$17.32
100% Cortese. The perfect white to stock your fridge with when friends and family come over. Beautiful apricot and...
750ml
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$12.94
$14.30
12 bottles:
$12.68
100% Cortese. The grapes used in this classic example of Gavi grew in the shadow of “Il Forte,” the iconic...
750ml
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$12.75
12 bottles:
$12.50
Color: Deep red colour with purple edges.
Nose: Intense perfume of tar, liquorice and red berries.
Palate: Fruity and...
750ml - Case of 12
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$17.90
Straw yellow with slightly greenish reflections. Intense scents of white flowers and fruit exacerbated by a delicate...
750ml
Bottle:
$27.95
12 bottles:
$27.39
This is a first release from Sandra and it is almost hard to believe that the wine turned out so beautiful (let’s...
750ml
Bottle:
$13.94
$14.73
Made from 100% Cortese grapes, this delicious white is both soft and crisp. With a pleasant stony minerality, this...
750ml
Bottle:
$14.89
$15.83
12 bottles:
$14.59
Color: Ruby red.
Taste: Dry, harmonious, slightly bitter aftertaste, velvety, gently tannic.
Pairing: First and main...
750ml
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$31.94
6 bottles:
$31.30
With ripe dark fruit and healthy acidity, it's perfect with a Porterhouse.
750ml
Bottle:
$17.93
$18.80
12 bottles:
$17.57
The Gavi DOCG del Comune di Gavi has always been integral to the historic identity of Villa Sparina.
It is a great...
Cortese Grenache Negroamaro 750ml
The Cortese white wine grape varietal has been grown in and around south Piedmont, Italy, for at least five hundred years. Its delicate nature and moderate acidity have made it a favorite with people around the world, and it is most commonly served alongside the excellent seafood and shellfish dishes of the part of Italy it is traditionally grown in. Cortese grapes are easily identifiable by their lime and greengage flavors, and their generally delicate and medium bodied character. Cortese wines are also notable for their freshness and crispness, again, making them an ideal match for seafood. Whilst colder years often produce harsher, more acidic Cortese wines, practices such as allowing malolactic fermentation can solve any such problems and still produce delicious white wines made from this varietal.
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.
One of the key grapes of the ever-growing Puglia wine industry is the Negroamaro, a native grape of this southern Italian region, famed for its deep, bloody red color and excellent set of flavors Indeed, many of the finest and most highly esteemed full bodied red wines of Puglia are made using the Negroamaro varietal grape, and it is grown most notably in the Salento area of the region, where it makes several types of red wine enjoyed locally and sold overseas. The name 'Negroamaro' means 'black-bitter', giving some clue as to one of the key features of the grape. Wines made with Negroamaro do indeed hold quite a lot of earthy bitterness, but generally are celebrated for their 'rustic' taste and extremely aromatic qualities.