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A White Wine for Red Wine Lovers. Fidelio is sourced from Farella, our cool-climate Estate vineyard in the...
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A powerful, driving wine, the Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain is loaded with character. Inky dark fruit,...
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Crisp and chalky on the nose, this appellation blend offers aromas of grapefruit peel, white-fleshed fruits and a...
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The 2018 The Ultimate Debate is released only in magnums and is a mix of the single vineyards. The final blend is 62%...
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A rich, round red with plum, berry, chocolate and walnut character. Lots of cherry flavors. It’s full-bodied with...
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#2 in Top 100 Wines from USA, 2021. This has incredible nuances and delicacy with power. It’s full-bodied with lots...
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Lake shows beautiful red, black plum and cassis flavors, and fine tannins supported by a perfect thread of acidity.
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Composed of 95% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot, the stunning, full-bodied 2010 Dominus boasts an exceptional...
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#96 Wine of the World 2022. Lovely aromas of red cherry, thyme and white chocolate. Medium-bodied with dusty,...
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Moving to the Pinot Noirs, this is easily the finest lineup I've tasted from Andy Smith. These are magical wines that...
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#8 in Top 100 Wines from USA, 2021. Blackberry and black chocolate with mint, conifer and clove. Sweet tobacco,...
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Made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon State Ranch was aged for 18 months in French oak, 50%...
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#15 in Top 100 Wines from USA, 2021. Extremely perfumed and floral with lavender, lilacs and violets to the sweet,...
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2010 2018 2023 United States California 1.5Ltr

Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.

California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.