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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $135.16 $142.27
4 bottles: $131.11
This offers fresh and attractive fruit aromas with a gently flinty, white-peach and white-flower fragrance on offer....
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Sparkling
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $99.00
6 bottles: $96.00
Moncuit’s non-vintage Cuvee Pierre Moncuit-Delos Blanc de Blancs Brut is typically a rich, powerful, crisp effort...
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92
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $98.95
6 bottles: $96.97
Although it is labeled Extra Brut, this wine's bottle age has done wonders for the crisp intensity of a dry...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $121.50 $135.00
A mouthwatering Champagne, with a fine mousse, this offers juicy flavors of plum, candied grapefruit zest, ground...
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92
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $686.85 $723.00
The 2013 Champagne Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill Brut, composed of 95% Pinot Noir, is the 20th release of this cuvée,...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $686.85 $723.00
Very complex nose with a wide spectrum of candied citrus, dried peach and mirabelle tart aromas. Bold and rich,...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $243.00
3 bottles: $240.00
The 2015 Champagne Brut Vintage is 60% Pinot Noir, with the rest Chardonnay, and takes on the more noble feel of the...
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94
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $139.80 $147.16
3 bottles: $112.00
Peach, lemon, grapefruit, biscuit and some honey on the nose. Creamy and round with a juicy, peachy and lightly...
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92
UBC
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Sparkling
187ml
Bottle: $11.52 $12.13
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Sparkling
187ml
Bottle: $15.99 $17.94
In keeping with the spirit of POP, Pink POP remains resolutely young and fresh, with a delicious flavour that is...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $90.25 $95.00
The NV Brut Tradition Grand Cru is fabulous. Rich, ample and creamy in the glass, the Brut Tradition captures all of...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $135.94
3 bottles: $133.22
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $129.94
3 bottles: $127.34
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $121.95
6 bottles: $119.51
The NV Brut Expression is a beautiful wine. A fine line of acidity runs through the Expression, lending notable...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $444.94
6 bottles: $436.04
The 2006 Extra Brut Premier Cru Millésime Terre is pure, fine and intense on the nose, with sweet cherry flavors and...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $144.95
6 bottles: $142.40
Disgorged in June 2019, the latest release of Geoffroy’s perennial superb NV Brut Premier Cru Rose de Saignee is...
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93
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $171.56 $180.59
3 bottles: $170.39
Grapefruit color with aromas of cherries, strawberries, almonds, pastries and honey. Creamy and rounded, with a...
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Sparkling
187ml - Case of 24
Bottle: $5.89
Bright, popping aromas of lemon zest, white peach, and starfruit drive the fruity nose. Fine bubbles massage the...
UBC
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $143.49
6 bottles: $140.62
The Fourny brothers farm close to four acres of 60-year-old chardonnay vines for this Brut Nature, aging it on the...
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Champagne Blend France Champagne Jura 1.5Ltr 187ml

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.

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 beautiful rolling hillsides of the Champagne region of France have, for hundreds of years, been producing many of the world's most famous wines. The sparkling white wines to come out of Champagne's prestigious wineries have conquered the world, and are drank in celebration across the globe. The vast majority of the region is under vine, and grows predominantly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grape varietals, which are usually blended together by master wine-makers in order to make their recognizable and widely loved produce. The north-easterly region of Champagne has a relatively cool climate, and quite a lot of rainfall, making it far from ideal for ripening grapes. However, the presence of heavily forested areas in the region helps maintain a balanced temperature, and the generations of expertise the wineries hold clearly produces excellent results in spite of the climatic problems.

The Isle of Jura is widely regarded as one of Scotland’s last true wildernesses - a wild and rugged place, found in the Southern Hebrides and home to just two hundred inhabitants and several thousand deer. It has one pub, one road, and despite being only sixty kilometers from the major metropolitan center of Glasgow on the mainland, it takes some time to get there. Which may help to explain why Jura whisky is so special - it really is a whisky which has evolved by itself, in isolation from the hustle and bustle of the world, and is widely regarded as one of Scotland’s finest single malts.

Jura whisky almost became something purely of the past. There was a historic distillery on the island since 1810, but due to a lack of interest in quality single malts in the late 19th century and early 20th century - thanks to the rise in lower quality, blended grain whiskies which were taking over the mainland - it fell into ruin. In 1963, the island’s only distillery was re-opened, and with the support of the island’s community, it began working again and aimed to create unique and characterful whiskies which would reflect the independent spirit of this tiny, wind-battered land.