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Red
750ml
Bottle: $41.82
12 bottles: $40.98
Floral aromatics of violets and red flowers, with a bright palate of fresh yet salty berry and dense but ripe,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $54.55
12 bottles: $53.46
• 100% Zinfandel. • Sourced from estate vineyard in St. Helena. • All native fermentation. • Aged for 11...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $32.80
6 bottles: $32.14
This is a young, fruity style of Late Bottled Vintage. It emphasizes red fruits with a full, sweet richness. The...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.37
OVERALL IMPRESSION: Dark colour and a nose with notes of spices and pepper, as well as ripe and jammy red berries....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.94
12 bottles: $18.56
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $38.94 $40.00
12 bottles: $38.16
A real briar patch of a Zin, with appealingly rustic wild cherry, spiced cinnamon and bay leaf accents that take on...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.88
12 bottles: $33.20
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $23.94
12 bottles: $23.46
Deep dark-purple colour with a vibrant and intense ruby rim. Aromas of ripe wild berries on the nose, combined with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $34.94
6 bottles: $34.24
This full-bodied wine is strongly shaped by firm tannins and a spicy, new-oak quality that fills the aroma with...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $13.94
12 bottles: $13.66
With its brilliant red appearance and brick red hues on the rim, the wine offers refined aromas of cherries along...
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $28.95
12 bottles: $28.37
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $79.74
6 bottles: $78.15
Expressive, with a wave of pure creamed plum, blackberry and blueberry fruit gliding through atop enticing anise and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $56.74
Black Sears Zinfandel shows Howell Mountain's exotic, ground white pepper and spicebox in the nose, and even more so...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $40.08
6 bottles: $32.00
This is a very good, richly flavored wine, quite full bodied and generously spiced, with vanilla and brown sugar notes.
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $72.14
Juicy and muscular, with a ball of plum paste, warmed fig compote and black currant reduction flavors that need time...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $58.37
The 2018 Geyserville is a blend of 68% Zinfandel, 20% Carignane, 10% Petite Sirah and 2% Alicante Bouschet. It's...
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Port Blend Zinfandel 2018

Port wine is Portugal’s great gift to the world. Coming from the ancient harbour capital city of Porto and the surrounding Douro Valley region, Port wine has been made by Portuguese vintners for at least four hundred years, although viticulture has been continually happening in the area for well over two thousand years. Port is a fortified wine, meaning it is a wine which has been bolstered by the addition of grape brandy. Originally, this was used as a method of preservation, allowing the delicate Portuguese wines to survive the journey by sea to trading partners in the UK and France. However, the wonderful taste and unique character the fortification process lends to the wine soon became massively popular, and before long, this new wine style was a hit all across Europe.


Unlike some other fortified wines, Port is made by adding brandy before the wine itself has completed its fermentation. The result of this is that plenty of the grapes’ natural sweetness is maintained in the barrel, meaning it is exceptionally smooth and rounded on the palate. Port comes in many different styles - Tawny Port wines are prized for their richness and mellow character, Reserve and Late Bottled Ports are full of fruit flavor. Vintage Port is a complex, wonderful thing - capable of standing up to some of the finest wines in the world when it comes to depth of flavor and fascinating features.

The precise origins of what became known as the Zinfandel grape variety are uncertain, although it has clear genetic equivalents in both Puglia and Croatia. However, when it was brought to the New World in the mid 19th century, it became known as the Zinfandel, and has been consistently popular and widely grown ever since. These very dark and very round grapes have a remarkably high sugar content, resulting in relatively high levels of alcohol in the wines they are made into, with bottles often displaying as much as fifteen percent. What makes the Zinfandel such an interesting grape, though, is the fact that the flavors produced by this varietal vary considerably depending on the climate they are grown in. In cooler valley regions, the Zinfandel grapes result in wines which hold strong flavors of tart and sweet fruits; raspberry, redcurrant and sweet cherry, held in a very smooth and silky liquid. Conversely, warmer regions result in more complex and spicy notes, including anise, pepper and hedgerow berries.