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White
750ml
Bottle: $45.00
• 100% Palomino. • From a less-than-one-hectare parcel of 80-year-old vines planted in slate at high altitude....
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $25.78 $27.14
12 bottles: $20.90
A complex nose full of raisins, sweet spiced nuts, vanilla and caramel aromas. In the mouth it is spicy with a...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $18.32 $19.28
12 bottles: $13.83
COLOUR: Coppery amber with sparkles of old gold. AROMA: Balanced and clean, with nuances of wood that has contained...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $20.98 $22.08
12 bottles: $16.04
COLOUR: Old gold with rainbow reflections. AROMA: Balanced and clean, with the fragrance of wood that has contained...
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $70.68
3 bottles: $61.20
Part of this brandy's story is its luminous orange-honey color. Aromawise, Lepanto is almost Cognac-like in its...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.94
12 bottles: $18.56
The 2022 Palomino El Muelle de Olaso is sourced from the renowned El Corregidor Estate in Jerez. It underwent 80%...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $35.94 $38.40
12 bottles: $35.22
Aged for more than 10 years in a selection of old American oak casks which have contained Oloroso Sherry for many...
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $22.80 $24.00
12 bottles: $20.52
Aged for more than three years using the traditional solera and criadera system. Barrels that previously stored...
White
750ml
Bottle: $21.60
12 bottles: $21.17
• 100% Palomino (from several different heritage clones). • Sourced from 60-plus year-old vines in La Mendoza, a...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $27.12 $28.55
6 bottles: $24.95
Its unique balance and aromatic richness have made Torres 10 Imperial Reserve the most recognised Spanish brandy in...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $44.45 $46.79
Torres 15 is modern and sophisticated, extremely refined, which gives it an unparalleled personality and great...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $76.37 $80.39
6 bottles: $71.99
Torres 20 is the most award-winning brandy. Chosen for several years as the Best Brandy in the World at contests like...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $20.40
12 bottles: $19.99
One hundred per cent Listán Blanco (aka Palomino Fino) from ungrafted vines. These vines are pergola-trained and...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $39.64 $44.04
The sumptuous bouquet smells of old leather, old books, toasted marshmallow, pipe tobacco, prune Danish, dried fruit,...
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Brandy Montepulciano Sherry Spain

Montepulciano grapes are one of the most widely cultivated varietals in Italy, with vines growing in twenty of Italy's ninety five provinces. This varietal is renowned for producing high yields, making it popular with vintners looking for a relatively easy varietal to grow. Whilst the grapes tend to have a low skin to juice ratio, the skins themselves are remarkably high in tannins with a lot of pigmentation, which means they often produce rather well bodied wines with a beautiful deep, dark color The wines of Montepulciano grapes are most commonly associated with soft, rounded characteristics, with plenty of juicy, plummy flavors The wines are known for being very smooth and drinkable, and easy to match with a wide range of foods.

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.

Ever since the Phoenicians and Romans brought their knowledge of vine cultivation to Spanish soils, the country's culture has grown alongside wine production, with wine being a vital part of Spanish identity and Spanish traditions. Each region of Spain has a wine quite distinct from the others, and it is produced by smallholders and families as much as it is by large companies and established wineries. From the relatively mild and lush regions of La Rioja to the arid plateaus that surround Madrid, grapes are grown in abundance for the now booming Spanish wine industry, and new laws and regulations have recently been put in place to keep the country's standards high. By combining traditional practices with modern technology, Spanish wineries are continuing to produce distinctive wines of great character, flavor and aroma, with the focus shifting in recent decades to quality over quantity.