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The wine has a deep, rich purple color. Intense red fruits are on the nose, with black pepper spice and a touch of...
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750ml
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This wine has great color, with a dark purple and red hue. There are spicy, earthy aromas of black cherry, black...
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Bottle: $169.93
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Complex and super intense Palo Cortado, loaded with concentration. Salted caramel, toffee, walnut and some tangy...
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Red
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Bottle: $28.00
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The 2016 Zinfandel Monte Rosso Vineyard is medium garnet-purple in color and opens with notions of raspberry tart,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.89 $17.49
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This is a very successful Zinfandel, blending earth, spice and fruit into a savory, yet thirst-quenching package....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.13
6 bottles: $27.57
A rich wine with layers of raspberry, cherry, and blackberry complemented by vanilla, licorice, and toast....
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Bottle: $21.35
A lush, full-bodied Zinfandel that blaze dark berry, earth and grassy aromas that complement a rich and complex...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.48 $18.40
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $45.36 $50.40
The 2019 Zinfandel Cat's Cradle is similarly hued but has a purer, crisper, more youthful vibe as well as ample plum...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $43.20 $48.00
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Dark plum and black-cherry flavors show great richness and breadth in this mouth-filling, slightly tannic wine as it...
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750ml
Bottle: $11.94 $12.57
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Fruity and friendly, aromas of bubblegum and berry candy are light and fresh. Juicy watermelon, cherry candy and pink...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $12.76 $13.43
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Very well balanced wine with low level of alcohol. Very aromatic, cotton candy and strawberry aromas. Light in the...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.20
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Ruby color. Elegant, with fresh fig and ripe red berry aromas (black cherry, wild strawberry), as well as delicate...
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The Beau! Beaujolais comes from a forty year-old high-density vineyard. Fermentation is traditional, 100%...
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Tightly focused and refined for a Zinfandel, this version packs in deep flavors of black cherry, licorice and roasted...
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Red
750ml
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Dynamic and generous, this Zin combines old-school briar with sleek suppleness, serving up stylish flavors of...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $12.43 $13.08
The Basics Our signature varietal, this wine is always a crowd pleaser. The Taste In making White Zinfandel, the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.32 $19.28
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Bursting with aromas of luscious black cherry, blackberry with hints of toasted coconut and Tahitian vanilla. Silky...
Red
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If there is a red grape more expressive in its youth than Valdiguié, we've yet to meet it. It's so many vibrant,...
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This is a big fruit bomb of a Zinfandel from very old vines, offering intense strawberry-boysenberry syrup aromas...
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Gamay Sherry White Zinfandel Zinfandel 750ml

The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.


The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.

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.

The precise origins of what became known as the Zinfandel grape variety are uncertain, although it has clear genetic equivalents in both Puglia and Croatia. However, when it was brought to the New World in the mid 19th century, it became known as the Zinfandel, and has been consistently popular and widely grown ever since. These very dark and very round grapes have a remarkably high sugar content, resulting in relatively high levels of alcohol in the wines they are made into, with bottles often displaying as much as fifteen percent. What makes the Zinfandel such an interesting grape, though, is the fact that the flavors produced by this varietal vary considerably depending on the climate they are grown in. In cooler valley regions, the Zinfandel grapes result in wines which hold strong flavors of tart and sweet fruits; raspberry, redcurrant and sweet cherry, held in a very smooth and silky liquid. Conversely, warmer regions result in more complex and spicy notes, including anise, pepper and hedgerow berries.