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Intense yellow with highlights veering towards gold reflexes in color. Notes of fine tropical fruit with so, delicate...
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This is a unique and delicious sparkling wine named after the ancient Greek god of shepherds, flocks, and rustic...
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The grapes for this wine come from a single vineyard where the more than twenty-year-old vines enjoy the benefits of...
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The swan song vintage of this cuvée, Doyard's 2015 Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru mingles aromas of citrus oil...
750ml - Case of 12
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Golden yellow in color with warm aromas of yellow pear and toasted brioche. Well structured and complex with racy...
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Finely balanced, with bright acidity enlivening delicately woven flavors of cherry, crushed almond, blood orange...
750ml - Case of 6
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Disgorged in September 2019 with 3.5 grams per liter dosage, the 2015 Extra-Brut Premier Cru Les Chaillots opens in...
750ml - Case of 6
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A breathtakingly perfumed, vibrant and expressive champagne that’s bursting with red-berry, basil and patisserie...
750ml - Case of 12
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Golden straw color. The nose has intense aromas of stone fruits (mirabelle plum), toast, and brioches notes. On the...
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The 2015 Brut Zéro Grand Blanc was harvested in Chouilly and Cramant. The base wines were fermented and spent nine...
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A wine that was reserved for enjoyment at the end of the family hunt from its inception in 1930 until...
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A great 2015 vintage champagne! Super-elegant synthesis of pinot noir and chardonnay character with a dazzling...
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Inviting on the nose, showing a symphony of nutty aromas, with notes of vanilla, toast, green apple and pear skin....
Champagne Blend Primitivo 2015 750ml
The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.
As with many European grape varietals, there is some debate regarding the precise origins of the Primitivo grape. Most people now agree that it probably came from Croatia, where it is still used widely in the production of red wine, and it known as Tribidrag. However, today it is a grape most commonly associated with the powerful red wines of Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot, where the intense sunshine and brisk Mediterranean breezes produce grapes of remarkable character and balance. Primitivo is a dark grape, known for producing intense, inky, highly tannic wines, most notably the naturally sweet Dolce Naturale and the heavy and complex Primitivo di Manduria wines. Primitivo tends to be naturally very high in both tannin and alcohol, making it ideal for both barrel and cellar ageing, which brings out its more rounded and interesting features.
Primitivo is not the easiest grape to grow or manage, and it has had something of a difficult century. Indeed, by the 1990s, there was little interest in Puglian wines in general, and winemakers were neglecting their Primitivo vineyards and looking to other, more commercially viable varietals. However, the last decade has seen this grape come well and truly back into fashion, with new techniques and a heightened interest in native Italian grape varietals bringing Primitivo back into the spotlight. It is now widely loved for its intensity and ability to be paired with strongly flavored foods.