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A to Z has worked over the years with more than 100 Oregon vineyards, noting different profiles within each region,...
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CHERRY | CINNAMON | VIBRANT Pulled from multiple vineyards throughout the northern Willamette Valley, this wine...
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750ml
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Pretty and inviting, the medium-bodied 2021 Pinot Noir Breaking Ground pours a ripe ruby color and has a perfume of...
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Boysenberry, ripe raspberry, and citrus on the nose. Medium-bodied with nuanced acid and fine tannin texture. Crisp...
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Red
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Opens with a refreshing beam of cherry and cranberry fruit, then draws in black tea and dusky spice flavors that...
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750ml
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This handsome, brooding Pinot offers multilayered raspberry and cherry flavors highlighted by spiced cinnamon and...
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Red
750ml
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Entirely from Knudsen Vineyard, Spirithouse Pinot Noir displays the delicacy and refinement of the Dundee Hills,...
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Red
750ml
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The aromatics suggest cherry, currant, vanilla and anise. On the palate there is a mixture of red raspberry and Bing...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.39 $24.88
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Red
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This elegant, energized wine combines bright raspberry and red-cherry aromas with flinty, mineral accents and...
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Red
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Tight with tension and focus, this serves up brooding raspberry and pomegranate flavors that are accented with orange...
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Red
750ml
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A fleshy, open-knit style, with a coating of melted licorice and sweet toast over a core of plum and cherry puree...
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Red
1.5Ltr
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Offers notes of plum preserves and cherry clafoutis that glide through, with sweet toast around the edges. The soft,...
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750ml
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Offers notes of plum preserves and cherry clafoutis that glide through, with sweet toast around the edges. The soft,...
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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $119.48 $132.76
Frankly ripe, with a wave of jammy plum and blackberry preserves flowing through, laced with sweet toast and...
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750ml
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Frankly ripe, with a wave of jammy plum and blackberry preserves flowing through, laced with sweet toast and...
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Sparkling
750ml
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• 100% Pinot Noir. • Single vineyard, Nine One Six Vineyard, Steels Creek. • Grey loam topsoil over grey/yellow...
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750ml
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Clean lines of black raspberry, dank forest floor and light mint show on the nose of this bottling. The palate lands...
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Red
750ml
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Pinot Noir from limestone and decomposed granite soils of Enz Vineyard in Lime Kiln Valley (San Benito County). The...
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750ml
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Bright strawberry, cherries, dried flowers, and sappy underbrush notes all emerge from the 2021 Pinot Noir Willamette...
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Champagne Blend Pinot Noir 2021 Australia United States

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.

Regularly described as being the grape varietal responsible for producing the world's most romantic wines, Pinot Noir has long been associated with elegance and a broad range of flavors The name means 'black pine' in French, and this is due to the fact that the fruit of this particular varietal is especially dark in color, and hangs in a conical shape, like that of a pine cone. Despite being grown today in almost every wine producing country, Pinot Noir is a notoriously difficult grape variety to cultivate. This is because it is especially susceptible to various forms of mold and mildew, and thrives best in steady, cooler climates. However, the quality of the fruit has ensured that wineries and vintners have persevered with the varietal, and new technologies and methods have overcome many of the problems it presents. Alongside this, the wide popularity and enthusiasm for this grape has ensured it will remain a firm favorite amongst wine drinkers for many years to come.

Whilst most of Australia consists of arid deserts and dense bushland, the oceanic coasts to the south of the country have a terrain and climate ideal for vine cultivation and wine production. It took several decades of failed attempts at the end of the 18th century in order to produce vines of a decent enough quality for making wine, but since those first false starts, the Australian wine industry has continued to grow and grow. Today, wine production makes up for a considerable part of the Australian economy, with exports in recent years reaching unprecedented levels and even overtaking France for the first time ever. Whilst the greatest successes in regards to quality have been the result of the Syrah grape varietal (known locally as Shiraz), Australia utilizes several Old World grapes, and has had fantastic results from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Riesling, Chardonnay and more. As the Australian passion for locally produced wine continues to develop, wineries have begun experimenting with a wider range of grape varietals, meaning that nowadays it isn't uncommon to find high quality Australian wines made from Petit Verdot, Sangiovese, Tempranillo and Viognier, amongst many others.

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.