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Luminous straw-green. Honey, white flowers, crushed rocks and lemon oil all come alive in this nicely chiseled,...
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The NV Prosecco Garbel represents amazing value in its category. Sweet white flowers, young peach and hints of...
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Pale yellow in color with greenish highlights and a rich tropical bouquet. Medium bodied on the palate with a...
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A modest, lightly creamy Prosecco, with light acidity, and hints of apple and pear fruit. Drink now. 60,000 cases...
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A rare beauty. This is our crisp, fresh and easy to drink classic Italian Rosé Brut, uniquely made with 100% organic...
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A sip of summer. This Bellissima Rosé Zero Sugar Sparkling Wine is delightfully crisp and light with elegant fruity...
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There is a rustic, iron-like, rugged quality to this full-bodied and firmly tannic wine that will mellow somewhat...
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An immediately appealing sparkling wine, brimming with apple and lemon aromas, but also delicate yeasty and freshly...
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Soft citrus and fresh white flower aromas create a breezy nose reminiscent of a summer afternoon. Flavors on the...
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Fresh, summer aromas of green grape, honeydew, and golden pear, the palate yields more subtle notes of kohlrabi and...
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This Extra Dry Millesimato Prosecco is obtained through soft pressing of the Glera and Pinot Nero grapes which have...
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Alluring aromas and flavors of cherry, raspberry, leafy underbrush, tar, iron and hay mark this luscious red, which...
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Ruby red with garnet shades, beautiful clarity. The nose is delicate and complex: the essence of Nebbiolo. The...
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Nervy minerality with fresh raspberries, strawberries and white pepper. Medium body with juicy, chalky tannins and a...
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Finally a wine to match your shine! Ruffino Lumina Prosecco is a wine kissed by the Italian sun, with hints of peach...
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Color: Bright straw yellow with fine bubbles. Aroma: The boquet is fragrant and bursting with fruit notes. It...
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A restrained Barolo with garnet color, offering notes of dried cherries, dried orange peel and hints of cocoa and...
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Champagne Blend Nebbiolo Canada Italy 375ml

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 Nebbiolo grape varietal is widely understood to be the fruit responsible for Italy's finest aged wines. However, its popularity and reliability as a grape which gives out outstanding flavors and aromas has led it to be planted in many countries around the world, with much success. These purple grapes are distinguishable by the fact that they take on a milky dust as they begin to reach maturity, leading many to claim that this is the reason for their unusual name, which means 'fog' in Italian. Nebbiolo grapes produce wines which have a wide range of beautiful and fascinating flavors, the most common of which are rich, dark and complex, such as violet, truffle, tobacco and prunes. They are generally aged for many years to balance out their characteristics, as their natural tannin levels tend to be very high.

Canada has been producing quality wines for over two hundred years, and has hundreds of established wineries producing characterful and easily recognizable wines from the many imported grape varietals which flourish in the cool climate and excellent soils which typify the region. The primary wine producing regions of Canada are all located in the south of the country, and benefit from the consistent climate found there. The two largest wine producing regions is Canada are the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, and Niagara Peninsula, in Ontario. Both of these regions produce large quantities of the ice wine Canada is famous for, where the grapes are allowed to freeze on the vine during the early frosts, and thus have their sugars and flavors concentrated, resulting in highly aromatic and often very sweet wines.

There are few countries in the world with a viticultural history as long or as illustrious as that claimed by Italy. Grapes were first being grown and cultivated on Italian soil several thousand years ago by the Greeks and the Pheonicians, who named Italy 'Oenotria' – the land of wines – so impressed were they with the climate and the suitability of the soil for wine production. Of course, it was the rise of the Roman Empire which had the most lasting influence on wine production in Italy, and their influence can still be felt today, as much of the riches of the empire came about through their enthusiasm for producing wines and exporting it to neighbouring countries. Since those times, a vast amount of Italian land has remained primarily for vine cultivation, and thousands of wineries can be found throughout the entire length and breadth of this beautiful country, drenched in Mediterranean sunshine and benefiting from the excellent fertile soils found there. Italy remains very much a 'land of wines', and one could not imagine this country, its landscape and culture, without it.