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750ml - 1 Bottle
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$1722.89
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Bollinger Champagne La Grande Annee 2004
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$165.95
Light, bright gold. Powerful orchard and pit fruit aromas are complemented by smoky lees, iodine, chamomile and...
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Bollinger Champagne La Grande Annee Rose 2004
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$170.45
This grand rosé is rich and rounded. Its red fruit flavors are layered with toast and spice notes, with depth that...
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Bollinger Champagne R.D. Extra Brut 2004
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$213.64
#53 TOP 100 CELLAR SELECTIONS 2019. The wine's name stands for recently disgorged and this vintage Champagne was...
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Bollinger Champagne R.D. Extra Brut 2004
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$214.55
#53 TOP 100 CELLAR SELECTIONS 2019. The wine's name stands for recently disgorged and this vintage Champagne was...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$183.28
This is an iteration of a legendary Champagne. Perfectly balanced, still packed with white fruit but just touching...
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Chateau d'Yquem Sauternes 2004
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$379.95
Barrel Sample. This is a beautiful Yquem, not huge or powerful, but with crispness, honey and freshness, very...
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Chateau Doisy-Vedrines Sauternes 2004
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$45.14
Vivid, quite intense nose with a spicy savoury twist to the sweet expressive fruit. The sweet palate has a nice...
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Chateau Guiraud Sauternes 2004
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$65.53
Spicy, with dried apricot and lemon character. Full, yet tight and long. Medium sweet, with a spicy finish. An...
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Delamotte Brut Blanc De Blancs Vintage 2004
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$218.26
The 2004 Blanc de Blancs has developed notable aromatic complexity and nuance over the last few years. Smoke, slate,...
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Dom Perignon Champagne Brut 2004
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$209.95
The 2004 Dom Pérignon is a totally different beast. It is the product of a very long and cool growing season marked...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$355.83
The 2004 Dom Pérignon is a totally different beast. It is the product of a very long and cool growing season marked...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$403.95
The 2004 Dom Pérignon is a totally different beast. It is the product of a very long and cool growing season marked...
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Dom Perignon Champagne Brut Rose 2004
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$440.07
A wine of pure and total pleasure, the 2004 Dom Pérignon Rosé is explosive and hedonistically rich, with tons of...
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$479.28
A wine of pure and total pleasure, the 2004 Dom Pérignon Rosé is explosive and hedonistically rich, with tons of...
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Dom Perignon Champagne P2 Plenitude 2004
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$555.42
The 2004 Champagne Plentitudes 2 is a stark contrast to the 2003 vintage and offers a more compact and linear...
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Dom Perignon Champagne P2 Plenitude 2004
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$409.83
The 2004 Champagne Plentitudes 2 is a stark contrast to the 2003 vintage and offers a more compact and linear...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$143.02
Champagne Blend Melon de Bourgogne Semillon/sauvignon Blanc 2004 750ml
The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.
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.