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Red
750ml
Bottle: $64.95 $67.99
12 bottles: $63.84
This is beautifully perfumed and balanced with ever so polished tannins. Full-bodied, integrated and long. Love the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $117.10
6 bottles: $114.76
A forward, delicious Brunate with berries, spices and cedar with some chocolate. Medium body, round, silky tannins...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $89.94 $93.68
6 bottles: $88.14
The lavender, light tar and ripe-strawberry aromas are really beautiful. Medium-to full-bodied with chewy yet refined...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $93.68
6 bottles: $91.81
Lovely aromas of tea and strawberries, as well as some cedar and spice that follow through to a medium to full body,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $109.94
6 bottles: $107.74
Lots of terracotta and plums with some coffee, too. Medium body, firm, silky tannins and a flavorful finish. Drink...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $119.94
6 bottles: $117.54
Aromas of smoke, bark, terracotta and berries follow through to a full body, round, chewy tannins with a hint of dust...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $107.94
6 bottles: $105.78
Ripe red cherries and blood oranges, as well as herbs and roses on the nose, leading to a juicy and flavorful palate...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $98.95 $104.80
This shows citrus rind and ripe red cherries in abundance, leading to an open-knit feel on the palate, which reflects...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $61.94 $69.94
Brovia is one of the brightest stars of Castiglione Falletto, the comune at the heart of the appellation that...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $248.95
A release of 3,824 numbered bottles (including various collectors' larger formats), the 2015 Barbaresco Riserva...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
500ml
Bottle: $28.99
12 bottles: $28.42
A nutty and intense marsala with salty undertones to the dried fruit, such as figs and sultanas. Some nuttiness, too....
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $61.60
Complex aromas of ripe fruit with plums and spices, as well as hints of hazelnuts. It’s full-bodied with firm...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $71.94
• 100% Nebbiolo. • Grown in calcareous clay/sandy soils. • 360 to 400 meters above sea level located within the...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $25.02 $27.80
6 bottles: $19.59
With hints of raisins and vanilla it is dry, full, and harmonic on the palate. Colombo Marsala Fine Dry is perfect...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $13.26 $14.73
12 bottles: $11.88
With hints of raisins and vanilla it is dry, full, and harmonic on the palate. Colombo Marsala Fine Dry is perfect...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $25.02 $27.80
6 bottles: $18.61
Dark amber, with hints of dates and apricots it is sweet, full, warm and harmonic on the palate with an elegant,...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $13.26 $14.73
12 bottles: $11.88
Dark amber, with hints of dates and apricots it is sweet, full, warm and harmonic on the palate with an elegant,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $234.94 $243.19
Incredible, reserved ripeness and depth already evident on the nose after one whiff, offering plum, cedar, rose hip,...
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Red
500ml
Bottle: $55.93
6 bottles: $54.81
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $15.49
12 bottles: $15.19
Warm and round with an elegant background of dried fruit and raisins.
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Marsala Nebbiolo 2015 NV Italy

Marsala is a well known fortified wine from Italy’s largest island, Sicily. A largely misunderstood and undervalued fortified wine, it is most commonly associated with its sweet variety - usually used as a cooking wine - although the finest dry Masalas are able to stand up to more revered, similar wines such as Sherry and Madeira. Marsala has been made in Sicily since the mid 18th century, and it grew wildly popular around Europe as sailors introduced it to port towns across the continent. Marsala wine has a beautiful set of flavors, most typically including apricot, tamarind, vanilla and tobacco, making it a delightfully intense treat when served as a sipping wine.



Marsala wine comes in several different varieties, and most of them are a world away from the sweet wines used in sauces and chicken dishes. Amber, golden and ruby versions of Masala are produced, from a range of different native grape varietals, and many of the finest are aged for over ten years to achieve a fascinating set of complex flavors and a remarkably smooth finish. It is usually made from the Grillo, Inzolia, Damaschino and Catarratto white grapes, although the ruby Masala wines uses typical Sicilian red varietals such as Nero d’Avola and Calabrese, among others.

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.

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.