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750ml
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The fruit for this Riesling is picked at a very ripe stage which leads to a wine bursting with flavor.This wine is...
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750ml
Bottle: $32.94 $33.60
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Our Riesling stands out from the pack. The ripe and tropical aromatics pop with lychee, pear, peach and melon. The...
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750ml
Bottle: $24.95
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The 2021 Riesling Sagemoor Vineyards from DeLille Cellars wafts up with sweet floral perfumes, candied ginger, lime...
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750ml
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750ml
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This classic dry Riesling has been aged for nine months in stainless steel tanks on the lees (yeast cells), giving...
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750ml
Bottle: $22.90
12 bottles: $22.44
High-toned and citrusy fruit aromas dominate the initial attack here, with floral notes and saline minerality...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.24 $18.04
Focused and tight, with a mix of yuzu, yellow apple, fennel and bitter almond notes that race along through the...
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750ml
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375ml
Bottle: $14.51
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Honeyed apricot, lemon zest and gentle florals lead. There's a musky, mushroomy underbelly. The palate is dry and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $31.93
12 bottles: $31.29
From Wiemer's original block of now 45-year-old vines, this is a concentrated, opulent Riesling, with class and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $25.94
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This wine spotlights unique characteristics from all three of Wiemer’s vineyard sites. Small selections of grapes...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $36.07 $40.08
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Crackles nicely with pippin apple, lime and slate notes. Reveals flashes of yellow apple and chamomile on the finish,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.25
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Grapes planted by Monty Stamp, a founder of Lakewood Vineyards, produced this delightfully sweet libation.
Red
750ml
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Aroma : Black cherry, sarsaparilla, cacao. Flavor : Salted plum, black raspberry, cola.
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750ml
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This wine shows white peach and apricot on the nose with an oyster shell minerality and waxy honeycomb aromas to...
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Soft tannin and stimulating acidity rise to meet this deeply fruited, social wine. Carignan from this beloved site...
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750ml
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The 2021 Carignane from Jessie's Grove is fabulous. Rich, deep, and dynamic, the 2021 is done in a style that shows...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $15.41
12 bottles: $14.64
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Carignan Riesling 2021 United States

Carignan is an ancient blue-skinned grape varietal, thought to be indigenous to the Aragon region of Spain. However, today it is most commonly associated with the fine wines of southern France, and has been grown in many countries around the world which have the warm and dry conditions it requires to thrive. Carignan is recognized as being quite a sensitive vine, highly susceptible to all kinds of rot and mildew, although producing excellent results when given the right conditions and handled correctly. Its high tannin levels and acidity make the Carignan grapes very astringent, and as such, they are often used as a blending grape to give body to other, lesser bodied varietals. Despite this, with careful treatment, Carignan can produce superb single varietal wines packed full of character and unique attributes.

Riesling grapes have been grown in and around central Europe for centuries, and over time, they became the lasting symbol of south Germany's ancient and proud wine culture. Whilst the reputation of German wines abroad has in the past been mixed, the Germans themselves take an enormous amount of pride in their wineries, and Riesling grapes have now spread around the globe, growing anywhere with the correct climate in which they can thrive. Riesling grape varietals generally require much cooler climatic conditions than many other white grapes, and they are generally considered to be a very 'terroir expressive' varietal, meaning that the features and characteristics of the terroir they are grown on comes across in the flavors and aromas in the bottle. It is this important feature which has allowed Riesling wines to be elevated into the category of 'fine' white wines, as the features of the top quality bottles are generally considered to be highly unique and offer much to interest wine enthusiasts.

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.