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Focussed herbal, wild black fruit and tobacco nose. The youthful palate is poised and approachable with a soft...
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Lots of fruit and flowers here with a mixture of red and blue berries. Currants and blueberries. Juicy, vibrant fruit...
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White
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Bottle: $15.94
Certified HVE3*. Sourced from 40-year-old Muscadet vines planted in shallow soils of disintegrated mica/schist....
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Red
750ml
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Grapes are destemmed and vinified in concrete tanks with the use of indigenous yeast. Short alcoholic fermentation...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.90
Ruby red with purplish shimmer, on the nose it presents a distinct red berries aroma, from raspberry, sour cherry, to...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $36.94
COLOUR: Deep ruby color. AROMA: It has a very complex and concentrated nose. It reveals aromas of red fruit, spices...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.94
The new País 2021 Bluepit was bottled later because Parra found the tannins needed a longer élevage. It comes from...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.94
There is a new País from a vineyard planted in 1895 that he rents in Ñipas on black basalt soil, first produced in...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.94
• 100% País. • Dry farmed, 100 year old vines grown on basalt and granitic soils in the Ñipas and Guarilihue...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.90
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Sweet berry and orange peel with peach undertones as well as lemon blossom. Medium body, with crunchy fruit and a...
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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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Melon de Bourgogne Mencia 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.