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$18.90
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$18.52
This wine reveals notes of black fruits with hints of leather and roasting. On the palate, the wine is structured...
750ml
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$22.40
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$21.28
• Primarily Garnacha with smaller complements of Bobal and Royal, from very old organically-farmed vineyards.
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750ml - Case of 3
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$509.85
Intense and enticing campfire smoke, this has beautiful rich fruits behind the grilled aromatics, and is open and...
750ml
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$151.80
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$148.76
The 2007 Beychevelle has an attractive nose, fresher and more complex than others in this flight of off-vintages....
750ml
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$31.50
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$30.87
Abundant with soft berry fruit aromas and flavors which are well-balanced with the tannins. There's a crisp edge to...
750ml
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$98.25
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$96.29
Tasted at BI Wine & Spirits' 10-Years-On tasting, the 2007 Brane-Cantenac has a quintessential bouquet for the estate...
750ml
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$235.95
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$231.23
A difficult year in theory but, as with many of the good names in Bordeaux, it is tasting excellently right now and...
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This is rich and powerful, with beautiful dark fruits that really showcase the Cabernet dominance of this wine. Great...
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$16.74
$17.91
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$16.41
A well structured Bordeaux with berry fruit and a touch of graphite on the nose. It's lovely and soft, with fresh...
750ml
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$18.95
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$18.57
Color: Intense red, with reds tints.
Nose: Complex aromas, reds and fresh fruits, toasted bread and vanilla.
750ml
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$14.30
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$12.35
Mostly Merlot, with Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Malbec and aged in cement vats. Generous, ripe and fruit...
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
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$271.80
Rich, impressively ripe fruit, the fruit dense and black, with juicy black plum flavors followed by dusty tannins....
750ml
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$14.84
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$14.54
Hand harvested Merlot, Cabernet, and Cabernet Franc grapes. Bright medium-deep ruby. Highly perfumed aromas of...
750ml
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$15.88
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$15.56
A merlot-dominated Bordeaux from a microclimate very similar to that of St. Emilion, this remarkable value is ripe...
Furmint Grenache Port Blend Red Bordeaux 2007 2022
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.
Port wine is Portugal’s great gift to the world. Coming from the ancient harbour capital city of Porto and the surrounding Douro Valley region, Port wine has been made by Portuguese vintners for at least four hundred years, although viticulture has been continually happening in the area for well over two thousand years. Port is a fortified wine, meaning it is a wine which has been bolstered by the addition of grape brandy. Originally, this was used as a method of preservation, allowing the delicate Portuguese wines to survive the journey by sea to trading partners in the UK and France. However, the wonderful taste and unique character the fortification process lends to the wine soon became massively popular, and before long, this new wine style was a hit all across Europe.
Unlike some other fortified wines, Port is made by adding brandy before the wine itself has completed its fermentation. The result of this is that plenty of the grapes’ natural sweetness is maintained in the barrel, meaning it is exceptionally smooth and rounded on the palate. Port comes in many different styles - Tawny Port wines are prized for their richness and mellow character, Reserve and Late Bottled Ports are full of fruit flavor. Vintage Port is a complex, wonderful thing - capable of standing up to some of the finest wines in the world when it comes to depth of flavor and fascinating features.
There are few regions in the world with stricter regulations in regards to wine production and grape varietals than those found in Bordeaux, France. Here, in the home of the world's finest wines, the type and quality of grapes used is of utmost importance, and the legendary wineries which work on the banks of the Gironde river have mastered the careful art of juice blending to find the perfect balance for their produce. Whilst there are six 'official' Bordeaux grapes, the two key varietals for almost every fine Bordeaux wine are Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and with good reason. Whilst Cabernet Sauvignon grapes are renowned for their acidity and astringency, strong fruit and spice flavors and full body, Merlot grapes are notably rounded, soft, fleshy and lighter on tannin. The combination of these two varietals, along with a small percentage of (commonly) Petit Verdot or Cabernet Franc, is the perfect balancing act – the two grape varietals cancel out each others weaker points, and accentuate all that is good about the other.