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Bright gold yellow with straw yellow tints. Very elegant with a quintessence of pineapple, hazelnuts and...
750ml
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$17.09
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$16.75
White rose petals and ripe citrus fruit open this elegant medium-bodied white wine. Flavors of juicy Bosc pear and...
750ml
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$14.64
$15.41
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$11.52
Straw gold yellow. Fine and elegant nose mixing white fruit aromas (pear, quince) with vanilla notes. Fruit driven on...
750ml
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$15.08
12 bottles:
$14.78
This wine offers a clear golden color with an intense nose of familiar citrus and exotic passion fruit and mango. A...
750ml
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$13.43
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$13.16
Cave de Roquebrun Chemin des Olivettes is a very nice deep red color. Complex nose with mineral notes, bright red...
750ml
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$15.94
$17.09
12 bottles:
$15.62
Very pleasant wine throughout a meal, it will be perfect with a guinea fowl with morels and soft cheese.
750ml
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$16.75
12 bottles:
$12.35
Aromatic suggestions of ripe fruit and baked apples invade the senses. The palate is bright, exhibiting floral notes...
750ml
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$11.40
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This wine has as a brilliant and limpid color with pale yellow reflections. The nose is intense, revealing elegant...
750ml
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$18.94
12 bottles:
$18.56
On the palate, there is the same mineral character and notes of the garrigue but on a slightly different register...
750ml - Case of 6
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$41.94
The 2018 vintage wasn’t, in fact, quite as extravagantly warm in Languedoc as it was in other regions; nonetheless...
750ml - Case of 12
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$29.94
The first, wider release on the Place de Bordeaux for this wine outside of DBR Lafite. Beautiful beguiling fragrance...
750ml
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$12.93
$14.30
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$12.35
The Carignan vines average 40 years in age, with some of them being up over 100 years old. The fruit is sustainably...
750ml
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$12.94
$14.30
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$12.35
50% Carignan/40% Syrah/10% Grenache. This bottling comes the older vines of the estate, some up to 100 years old and...
750ml
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$13.95
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$13.67
Grown in the southern sun and vinified in concrete vats (no oak) at 13.7% alcohol, this wine is astonishingly bright...
750ml
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$15.95
12 bottles:
$15.63
Predominately Syrah from younger vines, with Grenache, Mourvèdre, Marselan, and old vine Carignan making up the...
Chardonnay Melon de Bourgogne Red Blend France Languedoc Roussillon 750ml
Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.
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.
Year in, year out, France enjoys its prestigious reputation as the producer of the finest wines in the world. With a wine making history which spans several thousand years and owes its expertise to the Romans, it comes as little surprise that this most highly esteemed of the Old World wine countries continues to impress and enchant both novices and experts to this day. Despite the rise in quality of wines from neighboring European countries, not to mention the New World, the French wine industry continues to boom, with up to eight billion bottles being produced in recent years. However, France prides itself on always putting quality before quantity, and the wide range in fine produce is a testament to the dedication and knowledge of the wineries across the country. Indeed, from rich and complex reds to light and aromatic white wines, French wines are as varied and interesting as they are enjoyable to drink, making this country a firm favorite for wine lovers across the globe.
The French region of Languedoc Roussillon can claim to be amongst one of the oldest continuing wine regions in the world, with a history which stretches back to the ancient Greeks almost three thousand years ago. Today, Languedoc Roussillon is recognized as a region associated with fine wines made from many of the noble grapes, and with over 700,000 acres under vine, is a veritable powerhouse of viticulture which has helped shape the world of wines as we know it. Languedoc Roussillon is situated in the very south of France, and enjoys a fine, hot, Mediterranean climate which allows the vines there to reach full ripeness and provide reliable yields each year. Languedoc Roussillon today produces over a third of France's wines, and the bottles which leave the wineries of the region remain popular across the globe.