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$18.90
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$18.52
This wine reveals notes of black fruits with hints of leather and roasting. On the palate, the wine is structured...
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$31.50
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$30.87
Abundant with soft berry fruit aromas and flavors which are well-balanced with the tannins. There's a crisp edge to...
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$189.94
The 1998 Calon-Ségur, blended of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot, is deep...
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$16.74
$17.91
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$16.41
A well structured Bordeaux with berry fruit and a touch of graphite on the nose. It's lovely and soft, with fresh...
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$18.95
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$18.57
Color: Intense red, with reds tints.
Nose: Complex aromas, reds and fresh fruits, toasted bread and vanilla.
750ml
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$1189.08
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A blend of 81% Cabernet Sauvignon and 19% Merlot, the 1998 Lafite Rothschild is deep garnet with a hint of brick and...
750ml
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$982.98
$1092.20
Right now, at 20 years old, this wine is approaching its perfect drinking beginning - by which I mean it is now...
750ml
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$14.84
12 bottles:
$14.54
Hand harvested Merlot, Cabernet, and Cabernet Franc grapes. Bright medium-deep ruby. Highly perfumed aromas of...
750ml
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$221.58
$246.20
Not a great vintage (very hot August, rain in the last half of September), but the Merlot was luscious and wines made...
750ml
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$128.95
6 bottles:
$126.37
The first vintage for the Dillon family, who purchased this estate in 1997, the 1998 Château Nenin is a sexy, ripe,...
750ml
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$15.94
12 bottles:
$15.62
A merlot-dominated Bordeaux from a microclimate very similar to that of St. Emilion, this remarkable value is ripe...
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$149.84
$162.00
I love this wine and it totally stands up today, as it has done every time I've tasted it recently - it's pretty much...
750ml
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$13.94
$14.73
Mayu Pedro Ximenez is a stylish white wine that offers appealing floral and fruit aromas, with flavors balanced by...
Red Bordeaux Sherry 1998 2001 2022
There are few regions in the world with stricter regulations in regards to wine production and grape varietals than those found in Bordeaux, France. Here, in the home of the world's finest wines, the type and quality of grapes used is of utmost importance, and the legendary wineries which work on the banks of the Gironde river have mastered the careful art of juice blending to find the perfect balance for their produce. Whilst there are six 'official' Bordeaux grapes, the two key varietals for almost every fine Bordeaux wine are Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and with good reason. Whilst Cabernet Sauvignon grapes are renowned for their acidity and astringency, strong fruit and spice flavors and full body, Merlot grapes are notably rounded, soft, fleshy and lighter on tannin. The combination of these two varietals, along with a small percentage of (commonly) Petit Verdot or Cabernet Franc, is the perfect balancing act – the two grape varietals cancel out each others weaker points, and accentuate all that is good about the other.
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.