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1.5Ltr - Case of 6
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$159.00
96-97 This is a very beautiful red with currant and berry character. Very fine and polished tannins, too. The impact...
750ml
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$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...
750ml
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$269.45
3 bottles:
$264.06
Woven within the 1,100-acre ranch are gardens and orchards where wild turkeys, deer, and bear roam free. And amongst...
1.5Ltr
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$182.20
3 bottles:
$179.20
Montelena's 2016 Chardonnay is terrific. Fresh, nuanced and light on its feet, the 2016 is striking for its freshness...
750ml
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$93.94
Montelena's 2016 Chardonnay is terrific. Fresh, nuanced and light on its feet, the 2016 is striking for its freshness...
750ml
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$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...
750ml
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$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...
750ml
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$87.93
$93.20
12 bottles:
$87.40
A wonderfully rich, savoury nose leading into notes of lusciously ripe blackberry, blackcurrant and cherry, with a...
750ml
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$123.19
6 bottles:
$122.40
Deep purple color. Aromas and flavors of black cherry, blackberry preserves, allspice, and grilled pumpernickel with...
750ml
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$53.94
$55.60
6 bottles:
$52.00
Fresh blackcurrants, dark plums, mulberries and cassis. Medium-bodied with crunchy fruit and acidity, grainy tannins...
750ml
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$136.07
$151.19
A very intense, perfectly ripe and seamless cabernet that delivers a wealth of dark berries, blue fruits ad...
750ml
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$149.90
$151.19
6 bottles:
$147.59
Hints of graphite and black truffle with a dark-berry thread on the nose, leading to a full-bodied and flavorful...
750ml
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$139.95
$151.19
Super fresh boysenberry and mulberry aromas lead to a palate that has a very fleshy, long and dense core of fine...
750ml
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$344.95
$383.28
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Nathan Coombs Estate is profoundly scented of Black Forest...
750ml
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$42.05
12 bottles:
$41.21
From a vineyard that has since been designated as part of the new Petaluma Gap appellation, this wine shows the fog...
750ml
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$31.00
12 bottles:
$30.38
Preserved lemon, orange blossoms, white grapefruit, and struck flint, with saline-like minerality due to strong...
750ml
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$266.95
$295.20
#66 in Top 100 Wines from USA, 2021. This is the debut vintage of this wine from the esteemed Bordeaux owner, Alfred...
Cabernet Sauvignon Chardonnay 2002 2015 United States California
Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.
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.