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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $34.52 $38.36
6 bottles: $27.43
Leather, black plum and cassis aromas carry the nose of this wine. The full-bodied palate brings jammy blackberry and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.45
12 bottles: $19.06
Aromas of dark cherries, charred wood, bark and mushrooms. It’s medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins and an...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $27.93 $30.00
Fermented with native yeast and aged in concrete for six months and then moved to French oak (mostly used) for an...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.83 $25.20
12 bottles: $22.80
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $18.23
This wine is brilliantly elegant, generous, and fruity. It has a deep, subtle color with purple highlights, smooth...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.87 $22.08
12 bottles: $17.81
A firm, silky red with berry, chocolate and light walnut aromas and flavors. Medium body. Medium chewy tannins and a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $74.90
6 bottles: $73.40
The intense and high-pitched 2018 Aluvional Gualtallary has finesse, which is the challenge in this very wild zone of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $82.45
There's more fruit in the 2018 Aluvional Los Chacayes than in the 2017, as if the cooler year delivered more red...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $79.85
6 bottles: $78.25
I loved the 2018 Aluvional Paraje Altamira at first sight. There's a bit more of everything, more aromatic...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $154.90
6 bottles: $151.80
Aromas of crushed fruit with mushrooms, dried flowers, ash, charcoal, iodine and bark, following through to a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.85
12 bottles: $16.51
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.30
12 bottles: $14.01
Ripe dark fruit, leather, baking spices and wet compost on the nose. Some walnuts, too. Medium-to full-bodied, firm...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.92 $19.92
12 bottles: $18.24
An aromatic red with notes of ripe blue fruit, fresh flowers, vanilla, licorice, chocolate and herbs. Medium-to...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.25 $30.79
12 bottles: $28.50
Coming from the Uco Valley in Argentina, the 2018 Southern Sojourn is 75% Malbec and 25% Cabernet Sauvignon that was...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $16.33
The 2018 Malbec Mauricio Lorca from Vista Flores, Uco Valley is unaged and purple in color, delivering pure aromas of...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $42.94
The 2018 Malbec Pyros Vineyard Block N° 4 from the Pedernal Valley was aged for 12 months in French barrels, a tenth...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $97.99
The 2018 Malbec Pyros Limestone Hill from the Pedernal Valley, San Juan is made with grapes from vines planted in a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $49.94
6 bottles: $48.94
Discreetly plush on the nose with blackberries, blueberries and violets. Licorice, too. Full body. Firm and very...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $103.78
The aromatics here really seduce you with their blackberry and dried-strawberry notes and undertones of wet earth,...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $208.97
This is a really deep, decadent red, showing incredibly rich black soil, black olives and violets. Full body and rich...
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Fruilano Malbec Sherry 2018

The purple Malbec variety grapes which now grow all over the Old and New Worlds had their origins in France, where they are one of the few grape varieties allowed to be used in the highly esteemed blended wines of Bordeaux. However, it is perhaps the New World Malbec wines which have attracted the most attention in recent years, as they thrive in hot southern climates in ways they cannot in their native country, where the damp conditions leave them highly vulnerable to rot. Malbec grapes are renowned for their high tannin content, resulting in full-bodied red wines packed with ripe, plummy flavors and held in their characteristically dark, garnet colored liquid. In many countries, Malbec is still used primarily as a varietal for blending, as it adds a great level of richness and density to other, lighter and thinner varietals. However, single variety Malbec wines have been greatly on the rise in recent years, with some fantastic results and big, juicy flavors marking them out as a great wine for matching with a wide range of foods.

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.