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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $12.94 $14.30
12 bottles: $12.35
Honeycrisp apple and clementine notes are set in a snappy, light-bodied frame, with mineral, floral and pastry cream...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $16.93 $18.00
12 bottles: $16.63
A reductive smudge of smoky earthiness still clouds aromas of this sparkler. On the palate the foam throws big,...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $16.94 $17.91
12 bottles: $16.60
Notes of red-cheeked Cox's Orange Pippin apple fill the nose on this wine with their freshness and juicy ripeness....
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White
375ml - Case of 24
Bottle: $8.55
A fresh, well-cut white, offering modest flavors of apple, beeswax and almond skin. Hints of lemon zest and smoke...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.90 $14.57
12 bottles: $13.84
A fresh, well-cut white, offering modest flavors of apple, beeswax and almond skin. Hints of lemon zest and smoke...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $25.08
Granny Smith aromas meet with something flinty and vegetal. This wine is lean, racy, muscular and linear with bright...
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Sparkling
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $34.40
Frank and pure aromas with mineral, white floral, unripe lemon, and pippin notes. Elegant and slender mouth, with...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $27.15
12 bottles: $26.61
A very subtle nose is promising with its hints of ripe red apple, gentle shortbread and lemon zest. The palate...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $26.25
12 bottles: $25.73
There is a lovely note of wet earth before hints of fresh rose hip appear on the nose. The palate is both mellow with...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $25.08 $26.40
12 bottles: $23.94
Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $18.60
12 bottles: $18.23
This Brut Nature white crémant is made of Pinot Blanc, Auxerrois and Riesling with no added liqueur d’expédition,...
White
750ml
Bottle: $18.53
12 bottles: $18.16
Supple, refreshing and delicate with smoked aromas on a pretty fruitiness concentration that reveals a wide range of...
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Sparkling
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $25.28
A fine and delicate bubble, well balanced. Fresh and harmonious on the palate with aromas of ripe fruit.
Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $24.94
12 bottles: $24.44
Notions of creamy lemon yeast burst with every bubble that rises to this wine’s surface. The body adds a subtle,...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $16.90
12 bottles: $16.56
Pale pink in the glass, this has a rather fragrant nose that combines strawberry and citrus. The palate is ultralight...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $24.00
12 bottles: $23.52
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.85 $19.60
Rich and full but still dry. The most discreet of all varieties in primary aromas, it enjoys the best aging...
White
750ml
Bottle: $72.00
Heady notes of chamomile and dried hay flower stream from the glass immediately hinting at a wine with some...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $72.00
A dense and flavorful white with sliced, cooked, spiced apples, minerals and pie crust. Full body. Flavorful finish....
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $21.55
12 bottles: $21.12
A vivid ripe-apple note melds with spiced cookie and tangy grapefruit peel tones on the nose. The palate shows great...
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Champagne Blend Mencia Pinot Gris France Alsace

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.

The Pinot Grigio or Pinot Gris grape varietal is now one of the most widely grown vines in the world, due to the surge in popularity of Pinot Grigio wines over the past twenty years or so. These grayish-blue fruits, which hang in their distinctively conical bunches, are responsible for a very broad range of wines famous for their variety of color tones and flavors Pinot Grigio varietal grapes are highly influenced by terroir, climate and particularly the skill and expertise of the vintners who process them. As such, there are full bodied, amber colored wines made from this grape, and there are equally delicious yet far leaner, paler, lighter bodied and crisp white wines made from the same species in other parts of the world.

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.

Alsace has to be one of the most fascinating regions of France, with a history which stretches back millennia, and demonstrates perfectly the kind of blended culture that can arise from being located on the border between two enormously important, yet very different countries. Indeed, being on the border between France and Germany has resulted in Alsatian wines being something of a mix between the wines of these two countries. Riesling varietal grapes are grown in enormous quantities here, and display all of their crisp, dry complexity perfectly in the famous wines of Alsace. Alongside this typically Germanic wine, Alsatian vintners also produce plenty of Pinot Noir, Gewurztraminer, Muscat and Sauvignon Vert wines, all of which are superb when it comes to expressing the finer features of the wonderful Alsatian terroir.