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Red
375ml
Bottle: $61.50
12 bottles: $60.27
Gorgeous perfumes of plums, berries, light chocolate and walnut follow through to a medium body, fine tannins and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $92.07 $99.00
Gorgeous perfumes of plums, berries, light chocolate and walnut follow through to a medium body, fine tannins and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $43.89 $46.20
12 bottles: $42.75
91-93 The second wine of this terrific estate, which has been playing with the stars of the appellation for several...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.88 $33.20
Attractive aromas of dark and blue fruit, some violets, walnut and graphite. It’s medium-bodied with finely grained...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.94
12 bottles: $21.50
A round and rich taste derived from fresh fruit flavors such as bilberry, blackcurrant and cherry, the mid-palate...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.20 $17.50
Nice color with glints of crimson. Seductive nose, offering a broad aromatic palette in which scents of red fruit and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.90 $22.00
12 bottles: $17.48
With a brilliant garnet color, this wine offers a nose marked by notes of red fruits and chocolate. The palate is...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $27.60
12 bottles: $27.05
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375ml - Case of 24
Bottle: $16.13
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $27.93 $30.20
12 bottles: $27.55
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $73.43
A beautiful second wine with black olives, tapenade, black berries, plums and chocolate. Medium to full body. Lovely...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $370.08 $411.20
So perfumed and subtle with roses, lavender, sage, and currants. Medium-bodied. So much Spanish cedar, cigar box,...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $34.10
The 2020 Céres, from Clare and Gonzalgue Lurton, comes from a 8-hectare estate owned by Clare and Gonzalgue Lurton,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $437.58 $486.20
The 2020 Angélus has an opaque purple-black color, pulling you in with a captivating perfume of kirsch, Black Forest...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.60
12 bottles: $19.57
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $865.08 $961.20
The flowers in the nose are spectacular with violets, lavender, and honeysuckle. Then there’s wet stone and freshly...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $78.48 $87.20
This has a fantastic finish with crushed blackberries and raspberries and salt undertones. It’s full-bodied, yet...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
91-93 Barrel Sample. Ripe, soft, revealing sumptuous black fruits, this wine shows an impressive side to this estate....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $80.70
12 bottles: $75.53
The 2020 Beauregard was picked from September 8 at 37hl/ha (winemaker Vincent Priou told me that having been organic...
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Nero D'avola Red Bordeaux 1999 2003 2020

Italy’s largest island, Sicily, has a wine producing history that can put most other European regions to shame. It was producing quality wines before the days of the Roman empire, and even the Ancient Greeks were not the first to cultivate vines on the island. For as long as anyone knows, the key grape varietal of Sicily has been Nero d’Avola, the beautiful, deep blue skinned grape which produces the region’s characterful, powerful red wines. While in the past, Nero d’Avola was mainly used as a blending grape, due to its deep color and intensely full body, it is today being increasingly celebrated as a single varietal wine grape, and is perfect for those who like their wines boisterous, loud and strong.



Nero d’Avola is grown pretty much everywhere on Sicily, as demand for wines made from this grape have never been higher. Despite its power and body, it is quite a versatile grape - it can be aged in oak barrels, which produces a dense and dark wine which puts its intense characteristics to good use, but it is also often drunk quite young, which allows its jammy, plummy character to come forward. It is also used to make rose wines in some appellations of Sicily, demonstrating a softer side to this otherwise heavy, deeply flavorful grape.

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.