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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $99.59
6 bottles: $95.99
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750ml
Bottle: $64.94
12 bottles: $63.64
• Practicing organic. • 100% Syrah. • From multiple parcels of old vines from the villages of Mauves, Tournon,...
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750ml
Bottle: $74.00
12 bottles: $72.52
92-94 The flagship 2022 Saint Joseph Le Paradis Saint Pierre comes from a single parcel of vines and pure granite...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $52.00
12 bottles: $50.96
91-93 Cassis, liquid violets, ground pepper, and an undeniable sense of minerality emerge from the 2022 Saint Joseph...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $36.00
12 bottles: $35.28
91-93 Red and black fruits, flowers, chalky minerality, and spicy, subtly leather-like nuances all emerge from the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.99
12 bottles: $18.61
Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.90
12 bottles: $14.60
Lots of cherries, blueberries and plums with some dried herb and cured meat aromas. Medium-bodied with plush tannins....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $30.94
12 bottles: $30.32
Vinified from certified organic grapes, the 2022 Crozes-Hermitage checks in at a modest 12% alcohol. Blood orange...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $32.28
12 bottles: $27.39
91-93 From one of my favorite producers, the 2020 Crozes-Hermitage Domaine reveals a dense purple hue to go with a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $59.94
12 bottles: $58.74
92-94 Highly perfumed blackberry, cherry, olive and floral aromas are complicated by suggestions of exotic spices and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $27.74 $29.60
Deep violet. Lively aromas of fresh blackberry, cherry and candied flowers, along with cracked pepper and olive...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.90 $21.20
100% Syrah, this is an elegant, earthy wine that loves to find itself paired with a roast chicken or duck.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $34.96 $36.80
Textured and lythe. Flavors of fresh blueberries and blackberries are accented by notes of fresh cracked black...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $59.84 $63.19
12 bottles: $59.28
I tasted barrels from a couple of the lieux-dits that will go into Faury's 2020 Cote Rotie, both of which impressed...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.85 $34.79
12 bottles: $33.17
91-93 Deep, bright-rimmed ruby. Pungent floral and black pepper flourishes complement smoke-inflected dark berry...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.94
12 bottles: $22.48
• Grapes are 80% de-stemmed. • 10 day maceration in temperature-controlled cuves. • Daily pump-overs and...
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750ml
Bottle: $104.24
12 bottles: $97.95
A blend of grapes from Bassenon, Maison Rouge and Lancement, the 2019 Cote Rotie Blonde du Seigneur contains about 5%...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $65.94 $70.99
From a muscovite-based site above Chavanay, the 2019 Saint Joseph Terres d'Encre doesn't come across as being from a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.79
12 bottles: $38.99
This bright, alluring wine leads with violet, plum and black pepper, all wrapped around a core of graphite. Sleek and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $44.80
12 bottles: $43.90
Offers a vibrant beam of cassis and violet flavors that race along, with smoked meat and iron accents. Floral and...
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Carricante Cognac Syrah 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.

Known as Syrah in most countries around the world, and Shiraz in Australia and certain other regions of the New World, this grape varietal has proven over the centuries to be one of the most powerful and flavorful red wine grapes there is. It is now one of the planet's most widely grown grapes, and is a favorite with wineries as a result of its robustness and versatility. It isn't easy to identify many characteristics of this particular varietal, due to the fact that it is highly versatile and shows significant differences in flavor and character depending on the terroir it is grown in, and the climatic conditions of the region. However, Syrah is most widely associated with full bodied, strong and loud red wines, packed full of fruity and spicy flavors, held in a beautifully deep red liquid.