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White
750ml
Bottle: $35.88
12 bottles: $35.16
Delivers attractive pear, melon and chamomile notes that turn creamy on the medium-weight palate, with crushed stone...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $15.87
12 bottles: $15.55
Bright and juicy, with good energy to its mix of apricot, peach and nectarine flavors. Fresh acidity carries the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.64 $15.41
12 bottles: $11.52
Brilliant garnet red color. The nose reveals nice aromas of ripe fruits (strawberry, blackberry) with delicate coffee...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.94 $25.20
12 bottles: $20.52
The Saint Emilion is bright red with purple highlights. The very fruity aroma of cherries and raspberries is also...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.94 $14.73
• Clairette, Grenache Blanc, and Roussanne. • From two parcels – One in the village of Montfrin and one in...
White
750ml
Bottle: $29.94
12 bottles: $29.34
Color: Straw yellow with golden highlights. Nose: White flowers and white-fleshed stone fruits evolving into notes...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.94
12 bottles: $12.35
Color: Pale yellow with green hints. Nose: Aromas of exotic fruits, white flowers and citrus fruits. Palate:...
White
750ml
Bottle: $14.30
12 bottles: $14.01
Color: Pale yellow with green hints. Nose: Aromas of exotic fruits, white flowers and citrus fruits. Palate:...
White
750ml
Bottle: $14.20
12 bottles: $13.92
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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White
750ml
Bottle: $12.50
12 bottles: $12.25
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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White
750ml
Bottle: $20.85 $21.59
12 bottles: $20.43
The 2022 Les Deux Albion Blanc is largely Viognier and Marsanne, and the Viognier really shows on the nose with its...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.90 $15.59
Based largely on Sauvignon Blanc with a smaller amount of Viognier, the 2022 Micro-Cosme Sauvignon Blanc And Viognier...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.94 $15.17
12 bottles: $13.18
In 2015, chateau owner Bertrand Gourdou was searching through an old desk when he came across a label that his...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.50
12 bottles: $12.25
This 100% Merlot from Bordeaux combines charm and roundness, offering a nose with a complex bouquet, with red and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.94 $15.17
12 bottles: $13.66
Lots of blackberry and tar character with medium body, firm tannins and a tangy finish. Drink after 2023.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.28
12 bottles: $16.93
Red
750ml
Bottle: $35.94
12 bottles: $35.22
• Practicing organic. • 100% Merlot. • A 3 ha parcel on the plateau of Canon Fronsac. • Limestone and clay...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $57.90
12 bottles: $51.87
The 2019 Château Lafleur-Gazin showed nicely, with an elegant, seamless, classy style as well as textbook Pomerol...
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Merlot Traminette White Rhone Blend France

With its dark blue colored fruits and high juice content, Merlot varietal grapes have long been a favorite of wine producers around the globe, with it being found in vineyards across Europe, the Americas and elsewhere in the New World. One of the distinguishing features of Merlot grapes is the fact that they have a relatively low tannin content and an exceptionally soft and fleshy character, meaning they are capable of producing incredibly rounded and mellow wines. This mellowness is balanced with plenty of flavor, however, and has made Merlot grapes the varietal of choice for softening other, more astringent and tannin-heavy wines, often resulting in truly exceptional produce. Merlot is regarded as one of the key 'Bordeaux' varietals for precisely this reason; when combined with the drier Cabernet Sauvignon, it is capable of blending beautifully to produce some of the finest wines available in the world.

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.

Year in, year out, France enjoys its prestigious reputation as the producer of the finest wines in the world. With a wine making history which spans several thousand years and owes its expertise to the Romans, it comes as little surprise that this most highly esteemed of the Old World wine countries continues to impress and enchant both novices and experts to this day. Despite the rise in quality of wines from neighboring European countries, not to mention the New World, the French wine industry continues to boom, with up to eight billion bottles being produced in recent years. However, France prides itself on always putting quality before quantity, and the wide range in fine produce is a testament to the dedication and knowledge of the wineries across the country. Indeed, from rich and complex reds to light and aromatic white wines, French wines are as varied and interesting as they are enjoyable to drink, making this country a firm favorite for wine lovers across the globe.