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Bottle: $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...
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Bottle: $36.84 $37.60
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This delivers a blast of cherry and red currant compote flavors out front, backed by lightly toasted vanilla and red...
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Red
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Bottle: $178.95
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Heitz purchased 40 acres of woodlands on Howell Mountain in 2002 and subsequently planted seven of those acres. The...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $53.94 $55.60
6 bottles: $52.00
Fresh blackcurrants, dark plums, mulberries and cassis. Medium-bodied with crunchy fruit and acidity, grainy tannins...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $136.07 $151.19
A very intense, perfectly ripe and seamless cabernet that delivers a wealth of dark berries, blue fruits ad...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $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...
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Red
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Bottle: $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...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.94 $20.80
12 bottles: $19.54
Appearance: Deep Red Aroma: Cherry, vanilla, sweet smoke, forest floor, dried leaf, tobacco, mint, spice, cherry...
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750ml
Bottle: $344.95 $383.28
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Nathan Coombs Estate is profoundly scented of Black Forest...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $267.95 $295.20
#66 in Top 100 Wines from USA, 2021. This is the debut vintage of this wine from the esteemed Bordeaux owner, Alfred...
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Full-bodied, rich and decadent in the mouth, it fills the palate with spice-laced black fruit preserves, framed by...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.86
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Alluring nose with chocolate covered red cherries, coconut and sweet spices. Good balance, plush on the palate....
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Bottle: $64.08
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Bottle: $349.27
The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon is blended of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot and was...
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Bottle: $307.78
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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $135.04
The beautiful core marries creamy, warm plum fruit with a layers of loam, yet stays open and accessible in feel,...
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750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $506.87
Ripe, broad and fleshy, this lets beautiful plum sauce and blackberry compote notes drape effortlessly over a...
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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $559.53
Ripe, broad and fleshy, this lets beautiful plum sauce and blackberry compote notes drape effortlessly over a...
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Cabernet Sauvignon Champagne Blend United States California Washington State 750ml

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.

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.