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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.84 $18.40
12 bottles: $17.48
A rich and distinct with complex notes of blackberry, coffee, nutmeg, and caramel. A velvety smooth finish of plump...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.24
Cherry pie and red licorice notes are rounded, forward and open-knit in style, ending with a frank dose of vanilla on...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $54.94 $60.79
Dark and concentrated fruit and wood aromas are intense but not overblown on the nose of this rich bottling. Very...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $78.94 $87.60
The 100% Syrah 2019 Fracture comes all from the Booker Estate Vineyard and is another pure, balanced, incredibly...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.20 $18.00
12 bottles: $11.75
Dark ruby in color, with aromas of classic Paso blackberry and spice. Mouth-filling flavors of ripe plum, vanilla oak...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.56
12 bottles: $12.31
Lovely dark fruit driven Cabernet with blackberries and toasted oak on nose. The palate is integrated showcasing the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.94 $15.00
12 bottles: $11.12
Dark mulberry, brambly blackberry, violets, and cocoa aromas. Soft juicy black fruit and leather flavors combine in...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $55.94 $57.20
The 2019 Estate Blend is comprised of 51% Syrah, 17% Mourvèdre, 14% Grenache, 7% Tempranillo, 6% Graciano, 3%...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.90 $16.66
Foxglove Chardonnay always represents a great value. With this wine you have the richness of fruit from California's...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $79.84
12 bottles: $78.24
The 2019 Chopping Block is a gorgeous blend of 52% Syrah, 31% Mourvèdre and 17% Grenache grown on limestone that...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.55 $34.80
6 bottles: $31.20
This is one of the more widely available Cabs in American restaurants, and yet manages to be thoroughly enjoyable...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $38.00
12 bottles: $37.24
The 2019 Chardonnay Oceano Spanish Springs Vineyard comes from a cooler site outside of San Luis Obispo that's just a...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $169.26
The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve checks in as 95% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot that was aged 15 months...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $103.94
Pure perfection from Paso Robles, the 2019 Estate Cuvee checks in as 50% Syrah, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 5% Petit...
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2019 United States California San Luis Obispo 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.