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12 bottles: $166.53
Complex and super intense Palo Cortado, loaded with concentration. Salted caramel, toffee, walnut and some tangy...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $29.94
12 bottles: $26.45
Kafe Anme delivers a bitter balance of roasted coffee and sweet chocolate with hints of local orange, vanilla bean,...
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Utilizing Haitian Bitter Orange, Zoranj Anme is a delectable, citrusy rum-based liqueur that is sweetened by natural,...
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750ml
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This is bright for a cream Sherry, with green tea and singed ginger notes out front, providing heft to the date,...
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750ml
Bottle: $14.94 $15.83
Sea salt, Brazil nut and dried chamomile notes are racy and filigreed, with a stony edge on the finish. Drink now.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $69.95
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The NV El Tresillo Amontillado Fino is from the El Tresillo solera (hence the same name as the 1874 Amontillado). It...
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750ml
Bottle: $27.94 $31.19
Shows lovely focus and persistence, with a prominent thread of bitter almond that runs from start to finish, while...
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750ml
Bottle: $59.93 $64.79
The NV Villapanes Oloroso wears a dark amber-brown robe and has a very intense nose, showing some marmalade, dark...
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750ml
Bottle: $11.46 $13.00
12 bottles: $11.23
This traditional dessert wine compares favorably to the most famous imported brands of cream sherry - only ours is...
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750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
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750ml
Bottle: $45.60
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This special edition amaro is barrel-aged for 12 months. It's brown in the glass and has an intense herbal aroma of...
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750ml - Case of 6
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History tells us that the inventors cooked the bark of cinchona on iron plates before macerating it. My grandfather,...
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750ml - Case of 6
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The bittersweet, grapefruit-y flavor of this rosy-red craft liqueur lands somewhere between Campari and Aperol. It...
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The true origin of Concerto remains shrouded in mystery though many attribute its origins to a group of monks with...
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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $27.95
Using only fresh lemons, we create our sweet artisanal liqueur as it has always been on the Amalfi Coast. A...
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Bottle: $35.60
Deep brown in the glass, this walnut liqueur offers a pleasing dark chocolate scent and fleeting sweetness on the...
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750ml
Bottle: $214.93
A fascinating 40-year-old spirit – Speyside by way of the tropics. Expressive aromas and flavors of both fleshy...
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Cognac Liqueur Petite Sirah Sherry NV 750ml

For over three hundred years, Cognac has enjoyed its reputation as the king of brandies. Indeed, it is widely regarded as the finest drink to be distilled from grapes to be found anywhere in the world, and it is a testament to its producers and the master craftsmen who make it that this reputation has never faltered, and remains as strong as ever to this day.

Cognac is produced solely in the beautiful towns of Cognac and Jarnac, found about fifty miles north of Bordeaux, on the west coast of France. Here, around six thousand grape growers work exclusively in the production of white wine, used for the Cognac distilleries which are scattered throughout the region. The wines are made primarily from the Ugni Blanc or Trebbiano grape - one of the most commonly planted grape varietals in the world - which benefit from the cool, coastal climate and mineral rich soils which are found there. The wines themselves wouldn’t be suitable for drinking in themselves, as they are high in acid and low in alcohol, but this makes them ideal for distillation, and they can impart their wonderful, complex, rich flavors to the brandy.

Cognac varies quite significantly from bottle to bottle, depending on how long it has been aged for, and which appellation it comes from. The Cognac region is split into six separate Crus, all with their own distinctive characteristics, and the spirit can be aged from two years (VS) to six (Hors d’Age and Napoleon) and longer.

Petite Sirah was first brought from France to America in the 1880s. It later went on to become one of the only grapes to make it through the devastating Phylloxera virus in the 1890s, both World Wars, and the Great Depression. During Prohibition, it was a main ingredient used to make sacramental wines. In fact, through the 1960s it was a major blending grape in a number of the finest wines produced in California.

By itself, a bottle of Petite Sirah usually has no problem making a quick impression on consumers. With a large amount of natural color and tannins, wines made with the grape commonly feature intensive sweet fruit characteristics like fresh raspberry or blackberry jam, black pepper spice, and plenty of backbone or structure.

There are a number of different styles available. Some concentrate on highlighting fresh, fruity flavors; others are bigger, more voluptuous; and it keeps going up the ladder until you reach the powerful, more machismo-style category.

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.