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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $35.99
12 bottles: $34.19
Excellent, Highly Recommended (Great Value) (Tried & True) - 2020 ULTIMATE SPIRITS CHALLENGE
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94
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Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $52.43 $55.19
Starting with hints of peat smoke and honey baked apples on the nose, this scotch presents as medium bodied on the...
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UBC
95
WKY
93
Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $15.94
Certified HVE3*. Sourced from 40-year-old Muscadet vines planted in shallow soils of disintegrated mica/schist....
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $256.55 $270.05
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $324.94 $349.94
Well-structured aromas with floral top notes, seasoned oak, vanilla, layered peat smoke, dried banana chip, and...
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95
Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $34.94
Possibly one of the best-balanced whiskies around—which is what blending is all about—this honey-hued Scotch...
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94
WKY
94
Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $149.94
Saddle leather, golden berries, and tobacco are sturdy and stately aromas. The flavors open with velveteen honey,...
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UBC
96
WKY
95
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Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $27.30 $31.20
This golden and bright whiskey has mild aromas of apple and resin. The palate opens lightly in tones of oak, vanilla...
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89
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Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $36.94 $40.50
Excellent, Highly Recommended (Great Value) (Tried & True) - 2020 ULTIMATE SPIRITS CHALLENGE
UBC
93
BTI
90
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $199.94 $214.94
Magnificently powerful and intense. Caramels, dried peats, elegant cigar smoke, seeds scraped from vanilla beans,...
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WKY
97
UBC
95
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $199.94 $224.94
Magnificently powerful and intense. Caramels, dried peats, elegant cigar smoke, seeds scraped from vanilla beans,...
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97
UBC
95
Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $89.99
Stunningly golden in the glass, with aromas of dried apricot, nectarine, elderflower, and heather honey. The palate...
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94
WE
93
Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $36.99
This delightful blend presents a ripe nose of baked banana and lemon tart. The palate is racy and fresh and recalls...
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94
WE
92
Rapid Ship
Spirits
1.0Ltr
Bottle: $16.99
Gold amber hue. Pleasantly zesty, piquant, floral and maize-like in the first sniffings, goes fruity in later whiffs....
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89
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Spirits
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Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $189.94 $199.94
Nose: Wonderfully sweet with a strong salty peat lash. Some vanilla and tropical fruits in the second breath and then...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $31.20
This has intense aromas of honey, papaya, melon, lemon curd, toffee and jack fruit. Vanilla and some green bell...
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Blended Scotch Melon de Bourgogne Tocai Friulano Rapid Ship

One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.


Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing with a wide range of foods.

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.