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Red
750ml
Bottle: $159.94
Made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Sleeping Lady Vineyard is deep garnet-purple in color....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $89.90
6 bottles: $88.10
Ripe and focused, with a core of raspberry, mulberry and black currant pate de fruit notes that meld nicely with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $97.45
6 bottles: $95.50
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $204.94
6 bottles: $200.84
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $218.95
3 bottles: $214.57
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon is dark and brooding, earthy and layered. Notes of petrichor, cedar box, dusty savory...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $104.57 $109.20
12 bottles: $103.74
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon is a charming, sweetly fruited effort with loads of character. First produced in 1985 and...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $51.93
This is a generous, layered white with lots of cooked apples and hints of coconut and vanilla. Full body. Phenolic...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $41.93
12 bottles: $41.09
Ashes & Diamonds Blanc is a fully ripe and textured, yet bright, zesty and supremely age-worthy blend of Sauvignon...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $74.10 $78.00
Grand Vin is a wine of finesse and elegance that maintains fresh red and blue fruit flavors while exalting secondary...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.93
The 2018 Atlas Peak AVA Cabernet Sauvignon is stunning, displaying a deep garnet color that immediately captures the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $206.77
3 bottles: $202.63
Wonderful aromas of currants, plums, lavender, slate and violets follow through to a full body with tight, chewy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $132.84 $147.60
Wild blackberry, cassis, dark chocolate, tobacco and dark spice on the nose. Dried violets, too. It’s medium-to...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $26.83 $27.59
6 bottles: $26.29
Mandarin orange, quince and apple blossom with cheese rind, almonds, baking spices and a touch of saline minerality....
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White
750ml
Bottle: $32.18 $34.60
Golden apple, yellow plums, and a touch of banana peel followed by chamomile tea leaves, hawthorn, browned toast and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.84
12 bottles: $24.34
A prevalent sense of chaparral and wild herb marks the nose of this appellation cuvée, which also shows dark...
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Rose
750ml
Bottle: $19.20
12 bottles: $17.10
A soft, pale shade of pink in the glass, this mostly Central Coast-grown rosé blend of 72% Grenache, 11% Carignane,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.74 $15.00
The inestimable Randall Grahm has long been a poet of Picpoul, among other things, and this lovely example is loaded...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $78.85 $82.80
A perfumed, fresh nose filled with violets, lavender, black currants. The palate is plush, dense and precise,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $58.00
The Brandlin Estate Sauvignon Blanc is an opulent selection, rife with notes of mango, sweet lemon, and honeydew....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $38.89
12 bottles: $38.11
Eye: Garnet core, pink rose rim. Nose: Kumquat, exotic spice, wild strawberries, raspberries, Rainier cherry. Time...
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2018 2022 United States California Central Coast Napa Valley 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.

The long and narrow Central Coast wine region of California stretches for approximately two hundred and fifty miles down the Pacific coastline, and holds hundreds of important Californian wineries who grow a wide array of imported grape varietals. As with the rest of California, the Central Coast region benefits enormously from the hot and sunny climate, which allows the grapes grown there to reach full ripeness and express plenty of big, juicy flavors and rich aromas. Dozens of grapes varietals are grown successfully on the Central Coast, however, classic French varietals such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. The region is renowned for its modern and experimental approach to viticulture, and with over 90,000 acres under vine, this is a veritable powerhouse of wine production in one of the most important New World regions on earth.

When it comes to New World wines, and especially wines from the United States of America, Napa Valley is something of a standard bearer. Over its relatively short history, it has managed to transform itself from being a fairly insignificant region, to becoming one of the most important and highly regarding wine locations on earth. With an ideal climate for viticulture, blazing sunshine and a low level of rainfall, this valley is shielded on many sides by mountain ranges which help it maintain a consistent level of heat, light and moisture throughout the year. Today, Napa Valley is a home of innovation and quality, with dozens of grape varietals thriving in the fertile soils. However, the main varietals grown there have always been Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Merlot and Zinfandel, and the wines they produce are constantly lauded by critics and competitions across the globe.