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Red
750ml
Bottle: $46.87 $52.08
12 bottles: $41.79
Rich and velvety like devil’s food cake, this deep, delicious and full-bodied wine tastes like chocolate, cloves...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $36.84 $37.60
12 bottles: $36.10
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $79.80
A very balanced wine, with powerful aromas but also a lot of finesse, revealing floral notes, red fruits, scents of...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $64.95
Olmaia (made with certified organic fruit) has emerged as its own brand. The wine underlines the potential of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94
100% Côt (Malbec). Beautiful dark garnet color with ruby highlights. The nose has expressive spicy black fruits, and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $449.94
A good vintage - the problem was the yields,' says Jean-Louis. A tasting of principal component lieux-dits Péléat,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $38.40
While slender in profile, concentrated blackberry and cassis flavors reverberate through this piercing Syrah. It's...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94 $17.91
12 bottles: $15.83
Dark berries, tobacco and gravel on the nose. It’s medium-to full-bodied with fine-grained tannins. Dark spices on...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.79
6 bottles: $28.21
Bright red-ruby. Slightly porty aromas of blackberry, cassis, menthol licorice and pungent peppery herbs. Intensely...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.28
12 bottles: $18.89
Red
750ml
Bottle: $49.49
6 bottles: $48.50
This delivers a blast of cherry and red currant compote flavors out front, backed by lightly toasted vanilla and red...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $178.95
6 bottles: $175.37
Heitz purchased 40 acres of woodlands on Howell Mountain in 2002 and subsequently planted seven of those acres. The...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $298.83
Stony-mineral and flinty complexity here. This delivers a very taut, very compact and composed palate with tightly...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $209.95 $215.00
Blackberries, crushed violets, ample minerality, and some scorched earth notes all emerge from the 2016 Côte Rôtie...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $186.20
6 bottles: $185.00
Named after the lieu-dit, which is located next to Viallière, the 2016 Côte Rôtie Nève sports a deep...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $485.25
Readers wanting to understand pure granite soils need to taste the inky blue/black-colored 2016 Ermitage L’Ermite,...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $60.80
It is the utmost expression of the Cabernet Sauvignon variety, aged and evolved to perfection. This intense and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $199.94
A barrel selection chosen from a couple of vineyard blocks, the 250-case production 2016 Marsican Shiraz exudes...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $53.94 $55.60
6 bottles: $52.00
Fresh blackcurrants, dark plums, mulberries and cassis. Medium-bodied with crunchy fruit and acidity, grainy tannins...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $136.07 $151.19
A very intense, perfectly ripe and seamless cabernet that delivers a wealth of dark berries, blue fruits ad...
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Cabernet Sauvignon Malbec Syrah 2005

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.

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.