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Red
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Offers a stream of juicy cassis, fresh red currant and dried herbs that race alongside smoked sandalwood and pencil...
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Bottle: $16.51
With a robust color and a nose of red fruits, the mouthfeel is generous with tannins.
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750ml
Bottle: $13.65
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A fruity Cotes-du-Rhone with raspberries, cherries and sweet spices. Medium body with velvety tannins. Supple and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.80 $21.59
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Ripe and polished yet fresh, this red seduces with ripe, generous anise, vanilla-laced blackberry and cherry flavors,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $25.10
12 bottles: $24.60
Very smoky and flinty in the nose, this is a powerful and exciting dry white for the Southern Rhone. So much...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.94
Expressive black fruit, blackberry, herbal and damson nose with a twist of liquorice. Only medium-bodied, with such...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $7.70 $11.00
Clairette, Grenache Blanc and Roussane, from vines of an average age of 20 years, planted on sandy and clay slopes...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.83 $14.30
12 bottles: $12.35
Syrah 40%, Grenache 40%, Mourvèdre 20% Hand-harvested from sandy clay slopes with a northern exposure. Traditional...
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Red
750ml
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.94 $15.03
89-91 Leading off the 2020s, the 2020 Côtes Du Rhône is ripe, medium to full-bodied, and loaded with charm. Sunny...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $229.93
95-97+ Showing tight and focused, the 2020 Ermitage Ex Voto Blanc has full-bodied aromas and flavors of peach and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $468.95
Rated 97-100 - A barrel sample that just about made my eyes roll back in my head, the 2019 Ermitage Ex Voto has...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.95
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100% Syrah. From Texier's younger (20-40-year-old) vines, planted on a south-facing slope on granite soils in the...
Red
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.94
12 bottles: $14.41
Based on Grenache, Syrah, and Mourvèdre, the 2020 Côtes Du Rhône is round and sweetly fruited, with medium to...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $13.94
This blend of 80% Clairette and 20% Roussanne highlights Clairette's zesty green apple and white peach flavors with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.57
12 bottles: $12.32
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2004 2020 France Rhone Valley Cotes Du Rhone Hermitage 750ml

Year in, year out, France enjoys its prestigious reputation as the producer of the finest wines in the world. With a wine making history which spans several thousand years and owes its expertise to the Romans, it comes as little surprise that this most highly esteemed of the Old World wine countries continues to impress and enchant both novices and experts to this day. Despite the rise in quality of wines from neighboring European countries, not to mention the New World, the French wine industry continues to boom, with up to eight billion bottles being produced in recent years. However, France prides itself on always putting quality before quantity, and the wide range in fine produce is a testament to the dedication and knowledge of the wineries across the country. Indeed, from rich and complex reds to light and aromatic white wines, French wines are as varied and interesting as they are enjoyable to drink, making this country a firm favorite for wine lovers across the globe.

The Rhone Valley of southern France is a particularly fascinating wine region, with a history that stretches back to at least six hundred BCE, when the ancient Greeks first began cultivating vines there. The region itself is split into two distinct sub-regions, with the northern sub-region being famed for its production of exceptional Syrah, Marsanne, Roussane and Viognier wines, packed full of interesting character and expressing the terroir found there. The southern sub-region is home to an enormous variety of grapes, and produces red, white and rosé wines, and some of the world's most famous and adored blended wines. The continental climate of the region is ideal for growing grapes, and the winds which blow from the Central Massif help temper the heat in the vineyards, leading to very ripe fruits holding plenty of flavor.

Hermitage is the northern Rhone's most famous red wine appellation. A small district, Hermitage produces remarkably rich, deeply-colored, aromatic red wines made only from Syrah, and complex white wines blended from Marsanne and Roussane. In the 18th and 19th century, Hermitage wines commanded prices akin to First-Growth Bordeaux.
Hermitage is located on a granitic hill of about 311 acres, with southern exposure, and a number of different soil types divided into various climats within the vineyard. The granite and exposure encourage optimal ripening of the grapes. So closely is the variety Syrah identified with the appellation that in Australia, Hermitage is sometimes used as a synonym for Shiraz (the Australian name for Syrah).