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The 2011 The Evil Twin is a blend of 65% Syrah and 35% Cabernet Sauvignon that was aged 22 months in 100% new French...
750ml - Case of 6
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$129.21
Altagracia, named after Bart Araujo’s grandmother, is a Bordeaux-style blend vinified in the same manner as the...
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Araujo Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele Vineyard 2011
750ml - Case of 3
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$321.61
Compelling aromas of black fruits such as brambleberries, plus blueberries and fresh mushrooms. Asphalt, too. Forest...
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Calera Pinot Noir De Villiers 2011
750ml - Case of 6
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$82.94
First up and seriously perfumed, the 2011 Pinot Noir de Villiers is a gorgeous wine that excels both for its...
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Calera Pinot Noir Mills Vineyard 2011
750ml - Case of 6
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$104.69
One of the more subtle wines in the range, the 2011 Pinot Noir Mills Vineyard impresses for its sense of proportion...
750ml - Case of 12
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$148.95
Super classic scents of sweet tobacco, dried flowers, mint, licorice and dried cherries emerge from Montelena's 2011...
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Chateau Montelena Chardonnay 2011
750ml - Case of 12
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$106.21
Scented of freshly squeezed lemons, lime leaves and orange blossoms with touches of struck match, crushed stones and...
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Dominus Cabernet Sauvignon 2008
750ml - Case of 6
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$288.12
Made in a more masculine style, the 2008 Dominus has all of that along with bigger body and more structure, fat,...
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Dominus Cabernet Sauvignon 2011
750ml - Case of 6
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$212.20
A perfumed and refined nose of rose petal, orange rind, raspberry and coriander flower. This elegant nature continues...
750ml - Case of 3
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$657.02
Beautifully done in an ultraripe style. Gushing, with a jammy berry pie mix of wild berry, blackberry and raspberry...
750ml - Case of 12
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$130.03
750ml - Case of 6
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750ml - Case of 6
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750ml - Case of 6
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$249.94
750ml - Case of 6
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$109.67
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Promontory (Harlan) Red 2011
750ml - Case of 3
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$1108.63
The 2011 Promontory is just starting to enter its first plateau of maturity. Dark, dense and layered, the 2011 is...
2008 2011 United States California Washington State 750ml
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.
Since it began in the 1820s, wine-production in Washington state has gone from strength to strength, with many of the finest United States wines coming out over the past twenty years hailing from this region. Today, the state is the second largest US producer of wines, behind California, with over forty thousand acres under vine. The state itself is split into two distinct wine regions, separated by the Cascade Range, which casts an important rain shadow over much of the area. As such, the vast majority of vines are grown and cultivated in the dry, arid desert-like area in the eastern half of the state, with the western half producing less than one percent of the state's wines where it is considerably wetter. Washington state is famed for producing many of the most accessible wines of the country, with Merlot and Chardonnay varietal grapes leading the way, and much experimentation with other varietals characterizing the state's produce in the twenty-first century.