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Delivers attractive pear, melon and chamomile notes that turn creamy on the medium-weight palate, with crushed stone...
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$15.87
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Bright and juicy, with good energy to its mix of apricot, peach and nectarine flavors. Fresh acidity carries the...
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Grilled Pineapple, Citrus Blossom, Olive Oil, Stone Fruit, Butterscotch.
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• Clairette, Grenache Blanc, and Roussanne.
• From two parcels – One in the village of Montfrin and one in...
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$42.00
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Attractive and nervy nose with white pepper funk, wild berries and grapefruit. Full-bodied and flavorful for a rosé...
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$24.00
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• 100% Listán Blanco (Palomino).
• Sourced from ungrafted centenary vines at 500-600m altitude in the village of...
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• 100% Palomino.
• From a less-than-one-hectare parcel of 80-year-old vines planted in slate at high altitude....
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$29.94
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Color: Straw yellow with golden highlights.
Nose: White flowers and white-fleshed stone fruits evolving into notes...
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Color: Pale yellow with green hints.
Nose: Aromas of exotic fruits, white flowers and citrus fruits.
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750ml
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Color: Pale yellow with green hints.
Nose: Aromas of exotic fruits, white flowers and citrus fruits.
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750ml
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The effusive nose of apple, sliced pear and white peach pulls you into this bold dry white that has some positive...
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$12.94
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A white blend of 80% Grenache Blanc and 20% Viognier. Peachy and perfumed on the nose and palate with exotic herbs...
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$10.01
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750ml
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$21.59
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The 2022 Les Deux Albion Blanc is largely Viognier and Marsanne, and the Viognier really shows on the nose with its...
750ml
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$15.59
Based largely on Sauvignon Blanc with a smaller amount of Viognier, the 2022 Micro-Cosme Sauvignon Blanc And Viognier...
750ml - Case of 12
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Pale lemon in color with aromas of white peach and apple blossoms. Fresh and clean on the palate with notes of key...
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Mostly Viognier, the 2022 Côtes Du Rhône Blanc will give Guigal’s Côtes Du Rhône a run for its money. Fresh...
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A blend of 60% Clairette and 20% each of Grenache and Roussanne, aged half in barrels and half in tank, the 2022...
Sherry Savatiano Vermentino Nero White Rhone Blend
Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.
Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.
Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.
Savatiano is probably Greece's most well known and most widely grown grape varietal, as it is the primary grape used in the production of Retsina, where the fermenting juices of the Savatiano varietal are flavored with pine resin in order to make this distinctive and famous wine. One of the reasons for the wide cultivation of this grape is due to its hardiness, and resistance to drought conditions. In the sun-drenched and dry, rocky Greek landscapes, this makes it an ideal vine to grow for wine-makers who require a strong and bounteous yield each year.
However, there are plenty of examples of Greek white wines which use the Savatiano grape but withhold from the addition the pine resin flavoring, allowing the true characteristics of this varietal to shine through. The result is often very pleasing indeed, with Savatiano grapes generally producing extremely well balanced and rounded white wines, with a juicily fruity flavor. Their aromas can vary quite a lot, with many Savatiano wines bearing the fragrance of citrus fruits, and also occasionally having a strong floral aroma reminiscent of elder and rose. Due to the relatively low acidity of Savatiano grapes, the wines which use them (including Retsina) generally bolster themselves with the addition of smaller quantities of more acidic varieties, such as Assyrtiko or Rhoditis, in order to improve their sometimes weak structure.
Additional Information on Greek Wines
Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?
The Rhone region of France has been producing superb quality white blended wines for centuries, and is a region highly respected and esteemed around the world, with plenty of New World countries keen to emulate the styles and techniques displayed by the historic wineries and skilled vintners of the area. The secret to the Rhone's success when it comes to blended white wines is the careful and expert selection of certain grape varietals, which each lend special features to the blended wine and bring balance and harmony to the bottle. Most commonly, blended white Rhone wines feature no more than two grapes of either the Viognier, Rousanne, Marsanne or Grenache Blanc varietals, and are renowned for their exceptional flavors and highly aromatic, floral character.