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$66.68
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$66.00
Disgorged in June of 2021, the 2011 Brut Extended Tirage has pretty scents of red berries, crushed herbs, lemon pith...
750ml - Case of 6
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Bright yellow with fine bubbles. White stone fruit and some tropical aromas of pineapple and passion fruit on the...
750ml - Case of 12
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$63.64
Intense straw yellow with shades of amber. Aromas of grass, meadow flowers and fresh berries. Lovely palate of figs...
750ml - Case of 3
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$292.62
This cuvée is a tribute to the partnership between the James Bond producers and the Bollinger house. Made from 100%...
750ml - Case of 6
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$638.19
Fleshy and expressive, the 2011 Blanc de Noirs Les Ursules is drinking very well today, offering up aromas of orange...
750ml - Case of 6
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$183.28
The NV (2009) Extra Brut L’Apotre emerges from a parcel of sixty- year-old vines on clay-rich soils in Trepail....
750ml - Case of 6
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Disgorged in July 2020 with only one gram per liter dosage, Francis Egly's 2011 Brut Grand Cru Millésime is a...
750ml - Case of 3
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$277.80
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Perrier-Jouet Champagne Belle Epoque Brut 2011
750ml - Case of 6
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$205.95
Always a light, ethereal style of wine, this is also very fresh and still young. It will age with its taut minerality...
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Philipponnat Champagne Le Clos Des Goisses 2011
750ml - Case of 6
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$198.37
A brisk attack yields bright red fruit and elderberry with fine petillance. Disgorged after nine years on the lees...
750ml - Case of 6
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$362.88
A creamy version backed by well-honed acidity and a minerally underpinning. Lacks some depth and length, but...
750ml - Case of 6
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$116.24
A firm, fresh Comtes with a tight and composed palate. It’s full-bodied with a racy mid-palate. Long and...
750ml - Case of 3
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$221.28
A chalky rose Champagne, with raw silk–like texture, this leads with hints of smoke, oyster shell and dried thyme,...
750ml - Case of 6
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$143.95
Disgorged in May 2018 with seven grams per liter dosage, Vilmart's new 2011 Brut Coeur de Cuvée is showing...
Champagne Blend Sherry Trebbiano 2011 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.
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 Trebbiano varietal grape is a white wine grape originally from Italy, but which has been successfully planted and cultivated in several European countries, as well as in many parts of the New World. Although it is widely grown around the world, it remains relatively unknown to wine drinkers, perhaps because it has mostly been used traditionally as a blending varietal, and for the production of fortified wines. However, it is used very well in parts of Tuscany and elsewhere in Italy for single variety wines, where it is prized for its elegant character and beautiful citrus flavors, alongside floral aromas and a great expression of terroir. As such, Trebbiano wines often hold interesting mineral notes, making them fascinating and complex white wines perfect for matching with a wide range of foods.