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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $434.94
Barrel Sample. Apricot tones with lively acidity give this rich wine a vein of freshness. Pear and white peach notes...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $422.55 $469.50
Following a very long harvest stretching nearly two months, the 2015 Château d'Yquem came in at 13.9% alcohol and...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $225.18 $250.20
The 2016 Chateau d’Yquem is pure magic and dessert wines don’t get much better. Offering a pale gold color as...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $211.95 $235.50
The 2016 Chateau d’Yquem is pure magic and dessert wines don’t get much better. Offering a pale gold color as...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $468.00
The 2016 Chateau d’Yquem is pure magic and dessert wines don’t get much better. Offering a pale gold color as...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $219.94 $239.60
This is a great Yquem, delivering thrilling purity and intensity. The nose offers intense aromas of fresh and dried...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $449.92 $481.20
This is a great Yquem, delivering thrilling purity and intensity. The nose offers intense aromas of fresh and dried...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $195.48 $217.20
The 2018 d'Yquem is all lime cordial, grapefruit oil and mandarin peel to begin. With a little coaxing, the fireworks...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $405.00 $450.00
The 2018 d'Yquem is all lime cordial, grapefruit oil and mandarin peel to begin. With a little coaxing, the fireworks...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $201.15 $223.50
Owners LVMH took the decision to delay the release of the 2019 Yquem until spring 2022. It was tasted with winemaker...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $390.15 $433.50
Owners LVMH took the decision to delay the release of the 2019 Yquem until spring 2022. It was tasted with winemaker...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $189.63 $210.70
The 2020 Yquem, a blend of 75% Semillon and 25% Sauvignon Blanc, cropped at a measly 10hl/ha, has a very sensual...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $420.20
6 bottles: $419.00
The 2020 Yquem, a blend of 75% Semillon and 25% Sauvignon Blanc, cropped at a measly 10hl/ha, has a very sensual...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $49.01
12 bottles: $48.02
Tasted single blind against its peers. Whereas last year the de Fargues 2008 was immediately forthcoming, a few...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $31.20
12 bottles: $30.58
Bright yellow-gold. Spicy, ripe, complex aromas of peach, apricot, orange and nutmeg. Juicy, shapely and sweet, with...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $64.94
12 bottles: $63.64
Very textured, this is a complex wine. There is a strong sense of minerality here, along with flavors of ripe...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $27.63 $30.70
93–95. Barrel Sample. This wine is rich and full while still having a tight structure. It shows a fine streak of...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $29.94
93–95. Barrel Sample. This almost dry wine is full of botrytized fruit tones. Well balanced, it is likely to turn...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $59.94
12 bottles: $58.74
93–95. Barrel Sample. This almost dry wine is full of botrytized fruit tones. Well balanced, it is likely to turn...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $29.94
Vivid, quite intense nose with a spicy savoury twist to the sweet expressive fruit. The sweet palate has a nice...

Carignan Sherry Semillon/sauvignon Blanc

Carignan is an ancient blue-skinned grape varietal, thought to be indigenous to the Aragon region of Spain. However, today it is most commonly associated with the fine wines of southern France, and has been grown in many countries around the world which have the warm and dry conditions it requires to thrive. Carignan is recognized as being quite a sensitive vine, highly susceptible to all kinds of rot and mildew, although producing excellent results when given the right conditions and handled correctly. Its high tannin levels and acidity make the Carignan grapes very astringent, and as such, they are often used as a blending grape to give body to other, lesser bodied varietals. Despite this, with careful treatment, Carignan can produce superb single varietal wines packed full of character and unique attributes.

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.