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Fine tannins, this is elegant and finessed, with cool blueberry and raspberry fruits, touches of orange peel, rose...
750ml - Case of 12
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90-92 Barrel sample. Aromas of new wood mark this wine. On the palate, the tannins are gentle, with flavors of ripe...
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$72.75
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With dense fruit and a powerful, complex structure, this is one of the best wines from this chateau. Blackberries,...
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$167.10
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$163.76
This is from a precocious vintage, with a harvest beginning on September 3, the very day the estate’s longtime...
750ml - Case of 6
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Barrel sample. A firm and tannic wine, it has the weight to support its tannins. It's balanced, solid and dense, with...
750ml
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A vintage that’s being drunk with abandon in France these days, the 2011 Chateau Cheval Blanc showed beautifully,...
750ml
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$118.59
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$116.22
Continuing its impressive development, Clerc Milon 2011 is a serious wine. It is elegant, stylish, its fruits well...
750ml
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$114.80
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$112.50
A Duhart that was particularly subdued when young, it is continuing to develop and will be even better in two or...
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$42.30
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$41.45
This red shows good berry and spice character, with hints of minerals. It’s medium-bodied, with chewy tannins and a...
750ml
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$70.00
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$68.60
Plenty of Pauillac character in terms of its tannic density and dark fruits, a little angular. Once you coax oxygen...
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Gruaud Larose can be underestimated in its early years but knows exactly how to show itself with a bit of bottle age,...
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$205.50
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A dark, grippy, structured version, with a strong charcoal spine running through the core of dark fig, steeped plum...
750ml
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$50.19
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$49.19
This is a wine that has great potential—you can tell from the firm tannins, tight acidity and closed texture....
750ml
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$59.94
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$58.74
Full in the mouth, this is a soft and juicy wine at the outset. There is a cushioned, plump feel to the wine, with...
750ml - Case of 6
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This is a little more ready to drink than the 2010 vintage at this point, but still delivers plenty of rich, fleshy...
750ml
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The 2011 Le Gay exhibits a deep ruby/blue/purple color in addition to a sumptuous nose of spring flowers, blueberries...
750ml
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Barrel sample. Ripe and sweet tannins combine easily with this wine's juicy fruit and spice notes. All of the...
Merlot Nebbiolo Red Bordeaux Sherry 2011
With its dark blue colored fruits and high juice content, Merlot varietal grapes have long been a favorite of wine producers around the globe, with it being found in vineyards across Europe, the Americas and elsewhere in the New World. One of the distinguishing features of Merlot grapes is the fact that they have a relatively low tannin content and an exceptionally soft and fleshy character, meaning they are capable of producing incredibly rounded and mellow wines. This mellowness is balanced with plenty of flavor, however, and has made Merlot grapes the varietal of choice for softening other, more astringent and tannin-heavy wines, often resulting in truly exceptional produce. Merlot is regarded as one of the key 'Bordeaux' varietals for precisely this reason; when combined with the drier Cabernet Sauvignon, it is capable of blending beautifully to produce some of the finest wines available in the world.
The Nebbiolo grape varietal is widely understood to be the fruit responsible for Italy's finest aged wines. However, its popularity and reliability as a grape which gives out outstanding flavors and aromas has led it to be planted in many countries around the world, with much success. These purple grapes are distinguishable by the fact that they take on a milky dust as they begin to reach maturity, leading many to claim that this is the reason for their unusual name, which means 'fog' in Italian. Nebbiolo grapes produce wines which have a wide range of beautiful and fascinating flavors, the most common of which are rich, dark and complex, such as violet, truffle, tobacco and prunes. They are generally aged for many years to balance out their characteristics, as their natural tannin levels tend to be very high.
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.