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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.90 $13.86
12 bottles: $12.64
Aromas of crushed plums, black tea, fresh flowers and blackberries. Medium-to full-bodied with silky tannins. Notes...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $15.05
Ruby red color with violet reflections. Typical varietal aromas of ripe plum, cocoa, wild fruit, and flawless...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $52.00
A very spicy fruity wine, brilliant and clear, perfumed with carob, bergamot and orange peel. The compact ripe fruit...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.62 $16.25
Dark garnet. A complex bouquet of ripe plums, black pepper, and tobacco emerges from the glass. The palate has a...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.44
12 bottles: $13.17
It is evident that food and wine are harmoniously linked in Sicily, defining the region. It is known for its rich and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.01
Purato Nero d'Avola is packed with punchy fruit, with an excellent structure, yet is completely approachable.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $10.90 $12.05
Purato Nero d'Avola is packed with punchy fruit, with an excellent structure, yet is completely approachable.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.07 $15.63
Nero d’Avola gives this wine a red passion color, hints of ripe fruit and an intense and harmonious taste....
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Sparkling
187ml - Case of 24
Bottle: $6.95
#63 ENTHUSIAST 100 2022. Consistently one of the best tasting and best values in the world of wine. This rosé has...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $33.52 $35.28
6 bottles: $31.20
Color: Straw-yellow with gold reflections. Bouquet: The style is unmistakably Rotari intense and elegant with citrus...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94
12 bottles: $15.62
A firm and lightly chewy nero d'avola with earth and spice and some mushroom undertones. Medium body, solid tannins...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.94
12 bottles: $21.50
From a 1.5-hectare vineyard planted around 30 years ago. The vines are traditionally pruned in alberello, in other...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $43.92
6 bottles: $43.20
A bright, lithe sparkler driven by sleek, mouthwatering acidity, with ripe green and yellow apple, lemon curd,...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $23.40 $26.00
6 bottles: $22.40
This pale pink wine brings a full bouquet of pleasing floral aromas with hints of red berry, artfully crafted with a...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $15.76 $16.59
This well-crafted sparkling is quite a discovery for us. It has plenty of Amalfi-lemon and wild-herb character from...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.12
6 bottles: $18.74
Insieme represents our wish to produce a totally natural wine, with absolutely no chemicals, from the grape to the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.71 $17.59
12 bottles: $12.36
Soft and velvety. Distinct characteristics of fruitiness come forth. Pairs well with Risotto, first courses of baked...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.57 $18.41
12 bottles: $14.69
The 2020 Nero d' Avola is darkly inward today, showing only hints of dusty black currant and sage. This is a soft and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.90 $24.00
• A blend of 60% Nero d’Avola with 40% Frappato from 10 to 25 year old vines. • Spontaneous fermentation occurs...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.94
12 bottles: $20.52
Intense ruby red color with aromas of cherry and raspberry, and a nicely balanced spicy background. Full, warm, and...

Champagne Blend Nero D'avola Italy Sicily Trentino/Alto Adige

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.

Italy’s largest island, Sicily, has a wine producing history that can put most other European regions to shame. It was producing quality wines before the days of the Roman empire, and even the Ancient Greeks were not the first to cultivate vines on the island. For as long as anyone knows, the key grape varietal of Sicily has been Nero d’Avola, the beautiful, deep blue skinned grape which produces the region’s characterful, powerful red wines. While in the past, Nero d’Avola was mainly used as a blending grape, due to its deep color and intensely full body, it is today being increasingly celebrated as a single varietal wine grape, and is perfect for those who like their wines boisterous, loud and strong.



Nero d’Avola is grown pretty much everywhere on Sicily, as demand for wines made from this grape have never been higher. Despite its power and body, it is quite a versatile grape - it can be aged in oak barrels, which produces a dense and dark wine which puts its intense characteristics to good use, but it is also often drunk quite young, which allows its jammy, plummy character to come forward. It is also used to make rose wines in some appellations of Sicily, demonstrating a softer side to this otherwise heavy, deeply flavorful grape.

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.

The beautiful island of Sicily has been growing grapevines and producing wines for thousands of years, ever since the ancient Greeks first landed on its golden shores and noticed the island's true potential as a haven for quality grapes. Today, the island is one of Italy's primary wine regions, and even though over eighty percent of Sicily's grapevines are used for the production of sweet fortified wines, the remaining wineries making other wine styles are renowned around the world for their quality and character. Indeed, Sicilian wineries are famed for their ability to capture something of the sun-drenched region in their wines, and the vines they cultivate benefit enormously from the almost constant sunshine and the incredibly fertile volcanic soils which typify the island.