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White
750ml
Bottle: $22.40
12 bottles: $21.95
Color: Yellow straw colored. Nose: Floral with notes of grapefruit. Taste: Excellent sapidity.
Sake/Fruit Wine
750ml
Bottle: $16.75
12 bottles: $12.36
Semi-sparkling aromatized wine-product, presenting a nice and shiny straw yellow with green hints, very intense and...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
750ml
Bottle: $11.60 $12.21
12 bottles: $8.54
Our Berry wine is a deliciously sweet mix of juicy strawberry, raspberry, and blueberry flavors. Light-bodied, each...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
750ml
Bottle: $17.57 $18.49
12 bottles: $11.53
Silvery straw color. Aromas and flavors of white peach and nectarine, white flowers, and peach rings with a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $76.72
3 bottles: $76.00
From the moment I tilt the glass, the 2016 Carmenere makes itself known with an intensely spicy and pungently floral...
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93
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Sake/Fruit Wine
500ml
Bottle: $19.94
Slightly sweet, slightly sour and absolutely delicious. Lucchetti’s Visciola is made from 100% cherries grown on...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $26.00
12 bottles: $25.48
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Sake/Fruit Wine
3.0Ltr
Bottle: $23.37 $24.60
4 bottles: $15.00
Soft and fruity, with a light, tart finish, this real Italian Cabernet, infused with a raspberry splash, is a perfect...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
750ml
Bottle: $16.71 $17.59
12 bottles: $12.36
Sassy. Sultry. The right amount of naughty.
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Sake/Fruit Wine
750ml
Bottle: $16.71 $17.59
12 bottles: $12.36
Fresh. Lively. Jam-packed with flavor and fun.
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Sake/Fruit Wine
750ml
Bottle: $16.71 $17.59
12 bottles: $12.36
Ripe. Juicy. Stays on the sunny side of life.
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Sake/Fruit Wine
750ml
Bottle: $16.71 $17.59
12 bottles: $12.36
Exotic. Tangy. Vacay vibes all year round.
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $507.95
This definitive wine of pure Carricante is given extensive contact on the lees, without wood, taking its structure...
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94
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $356.05
A lovely nose of fresh flowers, lemon grass, blood orange, baked pear and toasted thyme. Medium-bodied with plenty of...
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96
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96
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $306.95
Lemon, pineapple and confected fruit on the nose. Lots of lime. It’s dry and light-bodied with a blanched-almond...
WE
90
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90

Carmenere Carricante Fruit Wine Sherry Italy

The deep blue colored grapes of the Carmenere varietal have their origins in France, where they are still listed as one of the elite grape varietals allowed by French law for the use in Bordeaux wines, generally regarded to be the finest in the world. However, the use of Carmenere grapes in France has been dwindling for many decades now, and it has been in several New World countries where they have seen their renaissance. Although still mostly used as a blending grape, single variety Carmenere wines are greatly sought after as a result of their deep, complex aromas, stunning blood red color and the fact that the grapes, when processed at optimum ripeness, carry some fascinating flavors, including chocolate, tobacco, and spicy cherry notes.

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.

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.