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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.07 $20.08
12 bottles: $13.99
Our Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon has aromas of black cherry, plum and violet. Flavors of cherry and cocoa integrate...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.89
12 bottles: $29.29
Our 2020 vintage is intense and focused, with aromas of plum, blackberry, and sour cherry, complemented by notes of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.87 $32.08
12 bottles: $23.47
A juicy, fruity red with currant, chocolate and spice notes. It’s medium- to full-bodied with round tannins and a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.85 $16.66
Foxglove is the reliable value arm of Varner Wine, which makes fine chardonnays and pinot noirs. Foxglove expands...
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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...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.08 $20.08
12 bottles: $14.25
White
750ml
Bottle: $23.94
12 bottles: $23.46
Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.08
12 bottles: $15.85
Notes of dark fruit, brown spice, and a dusting of toasted tobacco for a distinctly Paso Robles taste.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.36 $20.40
12 bottles: $16.63
HorsePlay Cabernet Sauvignon captures all the natural gifts of the Paso Robles wine region in the bottle. Like the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.38 $20.40
12 bottles: $16.63
Our Intercept Cabernet Sauvignon has aromas of ripe blackberries, red currants, and dried herbs. The wine is...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $19.38 $20.40
12 bottles: $16.63
The Intercept Chardonnay is medium-bodied with spiced apples, citrus, and biscuit notes. Rich from barrel...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.55 $35.28
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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Red
750ml
Bottle: $31.75 $35.28
6 bottles: $31.20
The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Hilltop is terrific as well as a great value. Cassis, ripe blue fruits, graphite, leafy...
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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $46.32 $48.76
6 bottles: $37.60
A classic wine icon for thirty vintages – one of America’s favorite Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignons.
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Red
3.0Ltr
Bottle: $104.31 $109.80
A classic wine icon for thirty vintages – one of America’s favorite Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignons.
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Red
375ml
Bottle: $12.81 $13.48
12 bottles: $12.36
A classic wine icon for thirty vintages – one of America’s favorite Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignons.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.36 $22.48
12 bottles: $17.48
A classic wine icon for thirty vintages – one of America’s favorite Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignons.
Red
750ml
Bottle: $92.08
3 bottles: $88.00
Almost opaque in the glass, this luxury bottling entices with intense aromas of black currant and blackberry sauce on...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.85
12 bottles: $25.33
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White
750ml
Bottle: $10.44 $11.70
Medium-full bodied with balanced flavors of vanilla, orange blossom, pear and apple. Toasty oak adds to the long,...

Cabernet Sauvignon Chardonnay United States California Central Coast San Luis Obispo

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.

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.