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750ml
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$41.93
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$41.09
• 90% Sangiovese with 10% Canaiolo.
• “Gandino” is a combination of “Gano” and “Dino” who were the...
750ml
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$20.88
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$20.46
This 100% Sangiovese is garnet red in color. Intense and persistent on the palate with fruity notes of strawberry and...
3.0Ltr
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$195.00
Very beautiful and perfumed with floral and fresh cherry character. Medium-bodied, silky and creamy with a lovely...
375ml
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$27.12
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$26.58
Ripe and opulent, boasting macerated cherry, plum, eucalyptus and iron flavors matched to a muscular structure. Shows...
750ml
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The fruit is on the darker side for the vintage, evoking black cherry, blackberry and dark plum flavors, while earth...
750ml
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$72.72
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$72.00
Bright red-ruby. Perfumed aromas and flavors of red cherry, violet, underbrush, licorice and sweet spices. Clean,...
750ml
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$89.94
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$88.14
This linear, almost racy red is bisected by a beam of cherry, strawberry and currant, with iron, earth and eucalyptus...
750ml - Case of 12
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$17.10
Brilliant ruby red. Clean and bright aromas of red cherry, wild berry, and dried herbs. Full and soft on the palate...
750ml
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$22.95
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$22.49
94% Sangiovese, 3% Malvasia Nera, 3% Canaiolo. Co-harvested/co-fermented in unlined concrete with macerations lasting...
750ml
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$34.95
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$34.25
100% Sangiovese, with yields at 35 hl/ha. The wine was fermented in open-top stainless steel vats with macerations...
1.5Ltr
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$28.84
$30.36
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$19.20
Our Candoni Chianti comes from a very careful selection of Sangiovese and Canaiolo grapes. It has an intense ruby-red...
750ml
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$18.32
$19.28
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$15.05
Our Candoni Chianti comes from a very careful selection of Sangiovese and Canaiolo grapes. It has an intense ruby-red...
750ml
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$15.17
12 bottles:
$13.18
Produced from Sangiovese grapes, this is a well-structured dry red that is perfect with pizza and pasta with tomato...
750ml - Case of 12
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$19.50
750ml
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$63.85
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$62.57
Aromas of redcurrants and red flowers, followed by a touch of pie crust and sandalwood. Full-bodied with steely and...
750ml
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$128.83
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$126.25
The 2016 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva wafts up with a classic Capanna profile, rich yet elegant, with masses of...
750ml
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$7.99
Smooth, perfumed red fruit aromas lead to a red, berry and cherry palate with excellent structure and a long, elegant...
750ml
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$128.94
12 bottles:
$126.36
The 2018 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Adalberto is a seductress, tempting the imagination with an array of exotic...
Ruche Sangiovese Tocai Friulano Italy
The name of this grape, meaning 'blood of Jove' conjures up evocative images of long dead civilizations, and gives the Sangiovese varietal a sense of the holy, the sacred, the special. Indeed, this particular type of Italian grape has been cultivated and processed for thousands of years, and is said to be the original favorite grape varietal of the Romans, and the Etruscans before them. Throughout history, vintners have continued to plant this varietal, and they continue to produce wonderful wines to this day. The long bunches of very dark, round fruit are treasured by fine wineries in Italy and a few other places around the world, and when young, these grapes are lively – full of strawberry flavors and a little spiciness. However, it is when they are aged in oak that they take on some truly special flavors and aromas, as seen in some of the finest wines of the Old World.
The Tocai Fruiliano grape varietal has been grown in and around the northern regions of Italy for centuries, and is still widely praised for its distinctive character and beautiful set of flavors and aromas. Despite the name, the Tocai Fruiliano varietal is not actually related to the famous Tokaji grapes of Hungary, or the Tokay d'Alsace grapes, but is actually the same species as Sauvignon Vert. Wines made from the Tocai Fruiliano grape are generally a pale straw yellow in color, and are recognizable by their aroma of wild flowers and orchard fruits such as pears. The flavor of the wines varies from vineyard to vineyard, and the Tocai Fruiliano grape is renowned for having a broad set of flavors, although citrus notes are usually detectable in most bottles.
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.