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White
750ml
Bottle: $264.60 $294.00
A unique dry white Bordeaux with a cool, fragrant and vibrant personality. Lots of candied citrus and pineapple with...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $20.00
12 bottles: $19.60
From a 17th century estate, this wine is rich and generous in its ripe yellow fruits and balanced acidity. Hints of...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $24.80
The Guinaudeau family has owned Grand Village since 1650. With clay topsoils over deep limestone, this shows the...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $69.94 $72.84
Beautifully wood aged, with subtle hints of spice, this is an elegant, textured wine, ripe with white fruit tones and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $124.89
6 bottles: $122.39
The white of the vintage is the 2016 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc, which comes from a high-density planting of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94
100% Côt (Malbec). Beautiful dark garnet color with ruby highlights. The nose has expressive spicy black fruits, and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.91 $28.79
Bright red-ruby. Slightly porty aromas of blackberry, cassis, menthol licorice and pungent peppery herbs. Intensely...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $98.55 $109.50
Attractive chamomile, lemon-pith and lemon-grass aromas with a very composed palate that holds a sleek and flavorful,...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $130.95
Cropped from an almost perfect growing season when the grapes ripened slowly, the 2016 Noemía is pure Malbec from...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $89.28
Blackberry and blueberry aromas with hints of spice and bark. Perfumed. Full body, layered, chewy and polished. Deep...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $96.78
Cropped from a cooler and wetter year, the 2016 Adrianna Vineyard Fortuna Terrae was bottled with six months less...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $252.97
In one of the coldest vintages of the last 30 years in Mendoza, the Adrianna Vineyard plot (just 1.4 hectares)...
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Red
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $365.95 $374.73
Like the other Malbecs from Adrianna Vineyard, the 2016 Adrianna Vineyard River Stones was bottled a little earlier,...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $82.78
They blend two plots from two of their flagship vineyards, Adrianna in Gualtallary and Nicasia in Altamira to create...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $69.33
The 2013 Malbec Catena Zapata Nicasia Vineyard is produced with grapes from the vineyard that names it--a vineyard...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $69.33
This is really complex and exotic with dark fruit, flowers and asphalt undertones. Full-bodied, soft and silky with a...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $39.64
A lively, bright and subtly citric dry white that starts quite sleek on the palate, but expands and gains in...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $210.71
This stunning white offers a rich display of mango and papaya flavors, gilded with peach, lemon curd and tangerine...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $221.95
A unique dry white Bordeaux with a cool, fragrant and vibrant personality. Lots of candied citrus and pineapple with...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $44.92
Ripe and tropical, this full-bodied wine conveys mango, quince and ripe white peach that accompany a rich texture....
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Malbec Mencia White Bordeaux 2013

The purple Malbec variety grapes which now grow all over the Old and New Worlds had their origins in France, where they are one of the few grape varieties allowed to be used in the highly esteemed blended wines of Bordeaux. However, it is perhaps the New World Malbec wines which have attracted the most attention in recent years, as they thrive in hot southern climates in ways they cannot in their native country, where the damp conditions leave them highly vulnerable to rot. Malbec grapes are renowned for their high tannin content, resulting in full-bodied red wines packed with ripe, plummy flavors and held in their characteristically dark, garnet colored liquid. In many countries, Malbec is still used primarily as a varietal for blending, as it adds a great level of richness and density to other, lighter and thinner varietals. However, single variety Malbec wines have been greatly on the rise in recent years, with some fantastic results and big, juicy flavors marking them out as a great wine for matching with a wide range of foods.

France is widely known as being the home of many of the world's finest white wines, and within France, the name which rings out across the wine world and is always associated with excellence of quality and flavor is Bordeaux. The white wines of the magnificent Bordeaux region are typically blended, and rely on the winemaker's skill and expertise to achieve the fine balance between the primary grape varietals used. Most blended white Bordeaux wines are made up of Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon and Muscadelle varietals, although there are actually nine grapes officially allowed by French wine law for the inclusion in Bordeaux white wines. The other six are Sauvignon Gris, Merlot Blanc, Ugni Blanc, Colombard, Ondenc and Mauzac, although the use of these other grapes has been in steady decline over the past century.