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This is an elegant wine with aromas of black cherry, cassis, plum, vanilla, oak and a hint of chocolate. In the glass...
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750ml
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A warm and inviting nose, evokes dark cherries, violets, and cardamon spice along with notes of grilled meat and...
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The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Knights Valley is the second vintage of Anakota's second-label Cabernet, meant for...
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Bottle: $22.90 $24.40
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This Cabernet is sustainably farmed and produced from a blend of our best hillside blocks on Olive Hill Estate. A...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.67 $24.08
12 bottles: $19.00
Friendly and direct, with cherry pie and blackberry puree notes mixed with a light vanilla thread. Gently toasted...
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750ml
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A full-bodied red with redcurrants, rust and black chocolate aromas and flavors. Savory. Granular soft tannins. Very...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $35.94 $39.59
Very pretty depth with a tile and rock-like texture to this. Minerally. Redcurrant. Medium to full body. Juicy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $44.65
12 bottles: $43.76
The wine is very aromatic with notes of mint, blueberry and black fruits. Deep flavors of black cherry are balanced...
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Deep ruby color, fresh with layered dark fruits, blackberry, black raspberry, cedar, allspice, cinnamon and hints of...
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Passion fruit and Bing cherry come off the nose of this wine with a distinctive, wet gravel minerality. As you look...
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Red
750ml
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Grapes for this wine are sourced from many regions within California including the North and Central Coast...
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750ml
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Red
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Attractive oak spice, turned earth and tobacco aromas lead to an expansive palate rich in cooked berries, dark plums...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
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Our Seven Ranchlands Cabernet has layers of brooding blackberry, blueberry, and plum notes, plus wafts of chocolate...
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Bottle: $22.80
12 bottles: $18.24
The wine is dark ruby with aromas of black cherry, plum, and brown spice with hints of toasted oak. The fruit follows...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.62 $16.25
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Clos Sonoma Cabernet Sauvignon showcases the depth and exquisite complexity of the Dry Creek Valley. With layered...
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750ml
Bottle: $39.31 $43.68
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Delivers a nicely energetic and enticing beam of crushed plum and boysenberry fruit that sparkles with anise and...
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750ml
Bottle: $48.48
12 bottles: $42.18
A new value-priced wine from the team at Sinegal, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon DETAILS checks in as 80% Cabernet...
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Albarino Cabernet Sauvignon Champagne Blend United States California Carneros Sonoma Valley 750ml

The pale skinned grapes of the Albarino varietal have been grown in and around Spain and Portugal for almost a thousand years, where they are highly enjoyed and prized by the locals for their distinctive aroma, and sharp, tart acidity levels. Over the past century, their influence has spread to the New World, and many vineyards keen to emulate the white wines of Spain have had considerable success with this varietal. The light bodied wines which are produced from the Albarino grapes have wonderfully aromatic properties, and carry ripe flavors of soft summer fruits, apricot and peach, with a mild and pleasantly bitter after taste brought on by their thick skins. Because of their acidic nature, they are a fantastic match for many Spanish foods, and are best served chilled on a hot day.

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.

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.

Carneros is one of California's key wine producing regions, situated close to the Pacific coast. Although Carneros is relatively young, having been first used for viticulture in the 1940's, it has proven to be a highly successful region, capable of growing high quality grapes and producing wines of real character and distinction. Unlike many other regions of California, Carneros is considerably cooler, and benefits from the tempering effect of Pacific fog on the vineyards. As a direct result of this, Carneros wineries are able to produce fine grape varietals which require cooler temperatures, such as Chardonnay and Pinot Noir – grapes perfect for the sparkling wines the region has become famous for. However, plenty of still red and white wines are made in the region, from a wide array of grape varietals.

California's beautiful and remarkably fertile Sonoma Valley has grown over the decades to become one of the United States' most respected and profitable wine regions, with wineries within the region benefiting from the superb Californian sunshine, low rainfall and wonderfully rich soils. Because of this vital combination of excellent conditions, the region is able to grow a wide range of grape varietals for use in the production of an impressive array of wines, with many different red and white wine grapes flourishing each year and producing excellent and characterful results. The soils have been enriched by volcanic activity, and the presence of geothermal springs, which make this region a unique one, and very much the beating heart of California's ever growing wine industry.