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750ml
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$24.00
12 bottles:
$23.52
• 100% Listán Blanco (Palomino).
• Sourced from ungrafted centenary vines at 500-600m altitude in the village of...
750ml
Bottle:
$15.34
12 bottles:
$15.03
COLOR: Intense straw yellow with hints of green.
NOSE: Intense and persistent. Fruity with clean notes of quince,...
750ml
Bottle:
$12.57
12 bottles:
$12.32
This Merlot is deep red in color with violet hues. In the nose are notes of dark fruits such as black cherry and...
750ml
Bottle:
$24.94
12 bottles:
$24.44
One hundred per cent Listán Blanco (aka Palomino Fino) from ungrafted vines. These vines are pergola-trained and...
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Podere Poggio Scalette Piantonaia IGT 2009
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$146.53
Produced entirely form Merlot grapes in a Vineyard located on the higher part of the Ruffoli hill in the heart of...
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Tua Rita Redigaffi 2009
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$240.95
Lots of personality here, with aromas of black cherries, olives, seaweed, milk chocolate and salted plums. Velvety...
Merlot Sherry Verdeca 2009 2023
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.
Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.
Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.
Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.