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Bright gold yellow with straw yellow tints. Very elegant with a quintessence of pineapple, hazelnuts and...
750ml
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$17.09
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$16.75
White rose petals and ripe citrus fruit open this elegant medium-bodied white wine. Flavors of juicy Bosc pear and...
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$15.41
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$11.52
Straw gold yellow. Fine and elegant nose mixing white fruit aromas (pear, quince) with vanilla notes. Fruit driven on...
750ml
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$15.08
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$14.78
This wine offers a clear golden color with an intense nose of familiar citrus and exotic passion fruit and mango. A...
750ml
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$13.50
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$13.23
The White version of the famous Fruit Defendant.
750ml
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$16.75
12 bottles:
$12.35
Aromatic suggestions of ripe fruit and baked apples invade the senses. The palate is bright, exhibiting floral notes...
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This wine has as a brilliant and limpid color with pale yellow reflections. The nose is intense, revealing elegant...
750ml
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$13.95
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$13.67
Grown in the southern sun and vinified in concrete vats (no oak) at 13.7% alcohol, this wine is astonishingly bright...
750ml
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$15.94
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$15.62
A blend of mostly Grenache with a compliment of Roussanne, Vermentino and Clairette grown in the rare limestone soil...
750ml - Case of 6
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$18.34
Deep lemon color with a pale rim. The nose is intense and complex with aromas of tropical fruits (ripe mango, melon,...
750ml
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$26.37
12 bottles:
$25.84
The light yellow robe is brilliant and crystalline. The intense nose reveals notes of exotic citrus fruits and...
750ml
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$12.50
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$12.25
COLOUR: A golden colour with a few green tints. BOUQUET: A rich bouquet expressing notes of acacia flowers, fresh...
750ml
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$10.93
$12.13
This fresh and lively Chardonnay offers a nose of tropical fruits, peaches and vanilla. It's round and cream on the...
750ml - Case of 12
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$39.93
This has very pretty energy and focus with sliced melon, pears, stone and fresh ginger. Dried flowers. Citrus, too....
750ml
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$13.42
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$13.15
With her years of experience consulting in Italy, Eliane Lafage is aware of the tradition of making sparkling wines...
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$12.90
$13.87
There's a salty, racy counterpoint to the warm, rich fruit profile in this nicely balanced white, with warm spiced...
750ml - Case of 12
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$13.59
Fresh and delicate. Intense nose with vegetal and citrus fruit notes (lime). Great purity of expression....
Chardonnay Sherry White Blend France Languedoc Roussillon 750ml
Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.
Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.
Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.
Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.
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 French region of Languedoc Roussillon can claim to be amongst one of the oldest continuing wine regions in the world, with a history which stretches back to the ancient Greeks almost three thousand years ago. Today, Languedoc Roussillon is recognized as a region associated with fine wines made from many of the noble grapes, and with over 700,000 acres under vine, is a veritable powerhouse of viticulture which has helped shape the world of wines as we know it. Languedoc Roussillon is situated in the very south of France, and enjoys a fine, hot, Mediterranean climate which allows the vines there to reach full ripeness and provide reliable yields each year. Languedoc Roussillon today produces over a third of France's wines, and the bottles which leave the wineries of the region remain popular across the globe.