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Bottle: $82.65
Aromas of blackcurrants, iodine, oyster shell, and dark chocolate. Medium- to full-bodied with polished fine tannins...
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Bottle: $159.00
96-97 This is a very beautiful red with currant and berry character. Very fine and polished tannins, too. The impact...
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Bottle: $158.94
A full-bodied cabernet sauvignon that’s fruity on the nose with notes of crushed raspberries, berries and herbs....
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Red
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Bottle: $21.00
6 bottles: $17.50
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Bottle: $15.20
The 2022 Cabernet presents a ripe blackberry aroma with a smooth, round, fruity palate.
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Red
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Bottle: $28.84 $30.36
6 bottles: $19.20
The Beringer Founders’ Estate Cabernet boasts flavors of black cherry, raspberry, vanilla and cinnamon spice....
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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $25.81 $27.17
6 bottles: $16.68
The Basics Full of jammy black fruit flavors that make this wine enticing from the first sip The Taste The sweet...
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Red
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Bottle: $21.85 $23.00
6 bottles: $13.87
Vibrant ruby red in color, Bolla Cabernet Sauvignon is soft and fruit forward with raspberry and ripe blackberry...
Red
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Bottle: $43.56
6 bottles: $32.40
Bonanza contains an aroma of chocolate shavings, blackberries, dark cherry and sweet oak. To taste, Bonanza brings in...
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Red
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Bottle: $38.57 $40.60
6 bottles: $30.40
Closer to ripe Bordeaux vintages than California style, with dried cherry and cassis notes, this wine is Cabernet for...
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Bottle: $19.95
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Bottle: $19.47 $20.49
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Bottle: $16.43
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Red
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Bottle: $28.84 $30.36
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With distinctive flavors of blackberries, cherries, and plums, it’s aged in oak for one year to produce this...
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Red
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Bottle: $200.84 $223.16
Plush, caressing style, with creamed boysenberry and blackberry flavors liberally laced with mocha and singed...
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Bottle: $12.99
The wine is a deep red ruby, with purple highlights and a light mousse and rim of the same color. It has an intense...
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Bottle: $93.00
Very well structured, yet restrained and elegant with a cool and delicate personality for the warm vintage, this is a...
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Red
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Bottle: $154.85 $163.00
The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley includes 9% Merlot from a vineyard in Oak Knoll and spent 16 months in 28%...
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Red
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Bottle: $89.11
6 bottles: $87.33
Bright and vivid with a linear palate of black cherries, plums and orange peel. It’s tight and focused with a...
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Cabernet Sauvignon Gamay Lambrusco 1.5Ltr

The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.


The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.

Some grape species are distinct and unique varietals, clearly separate from each of their cousins. Others, like Lambrusco and Muscat, are more like umbrella terms, featuring several subspecies which show slight differences from each other from region to region. Indeed, there are astonishingly more than 60 identified varieties of Lambrusco vines, and they are almost all used in the production of characterful Italian sparkling wines. They are distinguishable by their deep ruby blush, caused by strong pigments present in their skins, and their intensely perfumed character.


Lambrusco vines are grown in several Italian regions, although we most closely associate this varietal with Piedmont and Basilicata. It has also been grown successfully in Argentina and Australia. The varietal suffered from a fairly lowly reputation in the late 20th century, due to bulk, low cost production of Lambrusco sparkling wines, aimed at markets across northern Europe and America. However, things are rapidly changing, and the older, more traditional methods of bottle fermentation are returning, along with a higher level of quality and expression, as consumers become more discerning and demanding. Many of the Lambrusco sub-varieties have their own established DOC, such as Lambrusco Salamino di Santa Croce, Lambrusco di Sorbara and Modena, where new regulations are keeping standards high and methods traditional.