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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.60
12 bottles: $19.21
Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.50
12 bottles: $16.17
Medium-high robe, cherry red with bluish rim. Fruit is the dominating aroma, with notes of blackberries mainly, but...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $10.80 $12.00
Attractive aromas of red and dark berries, crushed walnuts, dried flowers and stone. Medium-bodied, juicy and bright...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.85
12 bottles: $23.37
Hints of stewed herbs to the nicely baked cherries, strawberries and some hibiscus and dark spices. Fruity,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.95
12 bottles: $25.43
From Marco: Rotburger, Sankt Laurent, Blauburger, Merlot and a few white vines, probably planted unintentionally, who...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.94 $19.28
12 bottles: $17.58
Daring, Self-Reliant, Polished. She is determined to experience all she can. With tons of character and confident...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $46.94 $48.00
12 bottles: $45.60
Brooding and deeply structured, this retains a sense of focus and vibrancy, with flavors of wild berries, clove,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.94
12 bottles: $25.42
Juicy and fresh, with earthy notes of forest floor, matcha, wild strawberry and tangy cherry, plus hints of jasmine...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94 $17.50
12 bottles: $16.63
Notes of spiced cherries and red plums with hints of cocoa, walnuts and dried herbs. Fresh and juicy with a medium...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $11.70
On the nose, exotic aromas of blackberry, violet, juicy plum, ripe figs, and sour cherries. In terms of the palate, a...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.00
12 bottles: $14.25
Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.90
12 bottles: $16.63
Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.89
12 bottles: $20.47
Chupacabra is our Shape Shifter Kitchen sink site Blend from the Buhl Memorial Vineyard, Willcox, in the Kansas...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.94
12 bottles: $20.52
• 50% Sumoll, 50% Garnatxa. • Destemmed and fermented spontaneously in tank with 15 days of maceration. •...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.95
12 bottles: $20.53
There is a new red blend (well, it's very pale, almost a rosé) produced with different Criolla grapes (Cereza,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.95
12 bottles: $15.63
Mencia, Garnacha Tintorera and Palomino from about 50 year old vines in mostly clay soils. Grapes are destemmed and...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $36.95
6 bottles: $36.21
Poula means "abandoned" and has become a tribute to the "drinking" wine the locals have always produced. A wine with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.93 $21.00
12 bottles: $18.81
50% Barbera/50% Dolcetto (a strain of it called Nibio). The fruit is destemmed, crushed and spontaneously...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.43
12 bottles: $13.16
Cave de Roquebrun Chemin des Olivettes is a very nice deep red color. Complex nose with mineral notes, bright red...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $9.94
Deep ruby color, medium body, fruity, balanced, leathery and with hints of raspberry. Fruity, strong and soft,...

Melon de Bourgogne Red Blend Sherry 2022 750ml

One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.


Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing 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.