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A rich and distinct with complex notes of blackberry, coffee, nutmeg, and caramel. A velvety smooth finish of plump...
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Dry, almost full-bodied with ripe black cherry leading black currant and red berry fruit, with vanilla and cinnamon...
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Cherry pie and red licorice notes are rounded, forward and open-knit in style, ending with a frank dose of vanilla on...
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The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon delivers vivid aromas of violet, boysenberry and black currant with trailing hints of...
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Dark and concentrated fruit and wood aromas are intense but not overblown on the nose of this rich bottling. Very...
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Dark in the glass, this is a dense expression from the estate's top blocks, offering aromas or elderberry, açaí and...
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Red
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Bottle: $16.25
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PALATE: Rich, complex, and full-bodied with silky tannins up front that lead to a juicy finish leaving you wanting a...
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Big Red Monster was created by acclaimed winemaker Jeff Booth. Crafted with select California grape varietals, Big...
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Roasted blackberries, boysenberry, black cherry, granite, raw cocoa nib, cedar, eucalytpus.
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Big blast of cedar, cigar box, and blackberry aromas with hints of olive. Jam-packed flavors of plum, black olive,...
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Broadside 2021 Margarita Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon While robustly fruited in its youth, Broadside Cabernet...
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Aromas of dark Bing cherries and blackcurrants with hints of cedar and vanilla. The wine is rich, full-bodied and has...
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It's amazing that the Daou brothers can produce a formidable Cab that is this accessible at such a young age. The...
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The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is blended with 23% Petit Verdot, made entirely with free-run juice, and it will...
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Estancia relies on the benefits of boutique-style winemaking techniques, including whole-cluster fermentation, gentle...
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Bottle: $20.08
12 bottles: $19.68
Plenty of herbal aromas kick off the nose of this bottling, including hints of fennel and toasted oregano, and there...
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750ml
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Our Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon has aromas of black cherry, plum and violet. Flavors of cherry and cocoa integrate...

Cabernet Sauvignon Sherry Primitivo United States California San Luis Obispo 750ml

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.

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.

Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.

California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.