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$79.94
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$78.34
This eight-year-old Calvados « Finition en Fûts de Porto » (Porto cask finish) stayed several months in small...
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$35.22
An average of seven years old, Manoir de Montreuil Réserve includes some brandies up to 20 years old in the blend....
750ml
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The apples are a mixture of the four categories: sweet, bittersweet, acidic and bitter composed of numerous include...
750ml
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$35.40
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A blend of young Calvados, distilled with extreme care in a copper column still. Aged more than 2 years in oak casks....
750ml
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$48.00
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A blend of young Calvados, distilled with extreme care in a copper column still. Aged more than 3 years in oak casks....
750ml
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$49.89
$52.80
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$48.89
Calvados made from a majority of pears can have a wild, volatile edge, that I find here in this six-year-old bottling...
750ml
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$43.20
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This three-year-old bottling from AOC Domfrontais is made from 70% pears and hearkens back to old-school Calvados in...
750ml
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$34.80
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It is distinguished by intense aromas of fresh apples. Its color is clear with pale yellow undertones. It is ideal to...
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750ml
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$69.60
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This Hors d'Age release comes from a careful blend of barrels from three vintages. It shows deep green apple, vanilla...
750ml
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$72.99
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Deep aromas of red apples and dark caramel. Clean and pure flavors of cinnamon, caramel custard, and baked apples all...
375ml
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$19.94
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Looking : Clear. Golden with orangey gleams. Thin bubble. Smelling: Ripe fruit flavour. Tasting: Round and generous....
700ml
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$30.00
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Looking : Clear. Golden with orangey gleams. Thin bubble. Smelling: Ripe fruit flavour. Tasting: Round and generous....
1.5Ltr
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$23.80
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Mouthfilling flavors of plums, cherries, and wild red berries dominate our Merlot from start to finish. It’s soft,...
1.5Ltr
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$24.60
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Our Merlot pops with vibrant fresh blueberry flavors with hints of plum and blackberry fruit leading to a luscious,...
Calvados Merlot Petite Sirah 1998 NV
With its dark blue colored fruits and high juice content, Merlot varietal grapes have long been a favorite of wine producers around the globe, with it being found in vineyards across Europe, the Americas and elsewhere in the New World. One of the distinguishing features of Merlot grapes is the fact that they have a relatively low tannin content and an exceptionally soft and fleshy character, meaning they are capable of producing incredibly rounded and mellow wines. This mellowness is balanced with plenty of flavor, however, and has made Merlot grapes the varietal of choice for softening other, more astringent and tannin-heavy wines, often resulting in truly exceptional produce. Merlot is regarded as one of the key 'Bordeaux' varietals for precisely this reason; when combined with the drier Cabernet Sauvignon, it is capable of blending beautifully to produce some of the finest wines available in the world.
Petite Sirah was first brought from France to America in the 1880s. It later went on to become one of the only grapes to make it through the devastating Phylloxera virus in the 1890s, both World Wars, and the Great Depression. During Prohibition, it was a main ingredient used to make sacramental wines. In fact, through the 1960s it was a major blending grape in a number of the finest wines produced in California.
By itself, a bottle of Petite Sirah usually has no problem making a quick impression on consumers. With a large amount of natural color and tannins, wines made with the grape commonly feature intensive sweet fruit characteristics like fresh raspberry or blackberry jam, black pepper spice, and plenty of backbone or structure.
There are a number of different styles available. Some concentrate on highlighting fresh, fruity flavors; others are bigger, more voluptuous; and it keeps going up the ladder until you reach the powerful, more machismo-style category.