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750ml
Bottle: $45.94
12 bottles: $45.02
The 2019 Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains Alesia comes from a blend of sites in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It has a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $85.50 $90.00
Chiseled stone, crushed strawberry, dark carnation and pleasantly toasty oak aromas show on the nose of this blend of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.90 $42.00
Poised and precise ripe black cherry and black currant, with some undertones of leather and cocoa. The wine rests...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $26.84 $28.20
12 bottles: $26.30
This young bottling will have a long cellar life, thanks perhaps to the old-vine attributes. Aromas of amaro-like...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.20
12 bottles: $27.64
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750ml
Bottle: $71.60
6 bottles: $70.17
As these mountaintop vines mature, the fruit gains more prominent character, yet the telltale structure remains....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $71.60
6 bottles: $70.17
The entire lineup of Clos de la Tech wines walks on a different plain than most other Pinot Noir, so consumers should...
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750ml
Bottle: $71.60
6 bottles: $70.17
Quite dark in the glass, this block-designated bottling from a ridgetop vineyard at 2,350 feet begins with earthy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $53.20
6 bottles: $52.14
Rich, deep and effusive, the 2016 Pinot Noir Santa Cruz Mountain Estates is a fabulous introduction to the Clos de la...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.75
6 bottles: $33.08
A dark shade in the glass, this blend from multiple vineyards begins with aromas of dried berry, iodine, mahogany and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $43.84 $46.00
12 bottles: $43.70
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon is the wine to focus on in this range in 2018. Dark and brooding, the 2018 is such a...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $32.90 $34.20
12 bottles: $31.35
Rich and complex, with notes of salted hazelnut, fresh lemon curd, tangerine and Honeycrisp apple, showing a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $34.83 $37.20
12 bottles: $34.20
Cranberry, crumpled thyme, dusty earth and a hint of fresh oregano show on the nose of this bottling. There's a...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $47.93
12 bottles: $46.97
AROMA : Key lime, lemongrass, graham cracker. FLAVOR : Lemon bar, white tea, saline.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $53.88
12 bottles: $52.80
SAVERIA vineyard in Santa Cruz mountains is a hidden vineyard near the town of Aptos, a mere 4.5 miles from the...
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750ml
Bottle: $89.93 $96.00
#52 in Top 100, 2022. A brilliant, youthful, unevolved wine that will give Ridge's Monte Bello a run for its money,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $58.94 $63.00
12 bottles: $58.71
Powerfully ripe yet racy and thrilling with acidity, this deeply concentrated Chardonnay exhibits a masterful balance...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $21.49 $24.00
Complex and distinctive, with pear, nectarine and Honeycrisp apple flavors, salted melon accents and a savory note of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $61.89 $67.20
This is more bone than flesh, with a wiry tannic structure around a core of savory, damson plum and blood orange...
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United States California Santa Cruz County 750ml

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.