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750ml - Case of 12
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$17.32
100% Cortese. The perfect white to stock your fridge with when friends and family come over. Beautiful apricot and...
750ml
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$12.94
$14.30
12 bottles:
$12.68
100% Cortese. The grapes used in this classic example of Gavi grew in the shadow of “Il Forte,” the iconic...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$17.90
Straw yellow with slightly greenish reflections. Intense scents of white flowers and fruit exacerbated by a delicate...
750ml
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$13.94
$14.73
Made from 100% Cortese grapes, this delicious white is both soft and crisp. With a pleasant stony minerality, this...
750ml
Bottle:
$16.94
12 bottles:
$16.60
This 100% hand harvested Semillon is from a single vineyard in the Tupungato region of the Uco Valley. The lower...
1.5Ltr
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$45.94
6 bottles:
$45.02
The Gavi DOCG del Comune di Gavi has always been integral to the historic identity of Villa Sparina.
It is a great...
375ml
Bottle:
$12.94
$13.87
12 bottles:
$12.68
A tangy and fresh Gavi full of sliced apples, lemon zest and stones. Medium-bodied and textured on the palate with...
750ml
Bottle:
$20.40
12 bottles:
$19.99
One hundred per cent Listán Blanco (aka Palomino Fino) from ungrafted vines. These vines are pergola-trained and...
Pre-Arrival
Chateau Le Puy Marie-Cecile VdF 2022
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$60.95
Marie-Cécile is produced exclusively from semillon grapes. The wine is vinified and matured in used barrels, by...
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$80.05
I also loved the 2020 Château Suduiraut Pur Semillon, a 100% Semillon that will also shine on the dinner table....
Pre-Arrival
Tyrrell's Semillon Vat 1 2006
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$109.72
With lifted lime citrus aromas the palate is seamless, showing the typical powerful fruit core which is balanced by...
Cortese Sherry Semillon
The Cortese white wine grape varietal has been grown in and around south Piedmont, Italy, for at least five hundred years. Its delicate nature and moderate acidity have made it a favorite with people around the world, and it is most commonly served alongside the excellent seafood and shellfish dishes of the part of Italy it is traditionally grown in. Cortese grapes are easily identifiable by their lime and greengage flavors, and their generally delicate and medium bodied character. Cortese wines are also notable for their freshness and crispness, again, making them an ideal match for seafood. Whilst colder years often produce harsher, more acidic Cortese wines, practices such as allowing malolactic fermentation can solve any such problems and still produce delicious white wines made from this varietal.
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.
Semillon was, at one point not so long ago, widely believed to be one of the most grown grape varietals in the world. Whilst today the numbers of Semillon grapes has dropped considerably, it remains a widely planted grape with vineyards all over Europe and the New World dedicated to making the most of this special and flavorful varietal. The grapes are recognizable by their golden color, and the fact that they can take on a pinkish hue in particularly warm climates. The wines the Semillon grape produces are notably varied, and are often very crisp and dry, or sweet and soft, full of a wide range of flavors Commonly, dry Semillon wines are particularly citrus in flavor, with a delicate and summery bouquet. The vine is hardy and vigorous, and notable for being easy to grow and produce high yields from.