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White
750ml
Bottle: $45.94
12 bottles: $45.02
Rated 92 - The 2019 Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains Alesia comes from a blend of sites in the Santa Cruz Mountains....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $90.00
12 bottles: $85.50
Rated 93 - Chiseled stone, crushed strawberry, dark carnation and pleasantly toasty oak aromas show on the nose 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
Rated 94 - This young bottling will have a long cellar life, thanks perhaps to the old-vine attributes. Aromas of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.95
12 bottles: $33.27
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750ml
Bottle: $71.60
6 bottles: $70.17
Rated 94 - As these mountaintop vines mature, the fruit gains more prominent character, yet the telltale structure...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $71.60
6 bottles: $70.17
Rated 93 - The entire lineup of Clos de la Tech wines walks on a different plain than most other Pinot Noir, so...
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750ml
Bottle: $71.60
6 bottles: $70.17
Rated 95 - Quite dark in the glass, this block-designated bottling from a ridgetop vineyard at 2,350 feet begins with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $53.20
6 bottles: $52.14
Rated 94 - Rich, deep and effusive, the 2016 Pinot Noir Santa Cruz Mountain Estates is a fabulous introduction to the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.75
6 bottles: $33.08
Rated 93 - A dark shade in the glass, this blend from multiple vineyards begins with aromas of dried berry, iodine,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $43.84 $47.20
12 bottles: $43.70
Rated 94 - Subtle aromas of dark cherry, toasted mahogany and roasted nut are very balanced on the nose of this...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $32.90 $34.20
12 bottles: $31.35
Rated 92 - Rich and complex, with notes of salted hazelnut, fresh lemon curd, tangerine and Honeycrisp apple, showing...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $34.83 $37.20
12 bottles: $34.20
Rated 91 - Cranberry, crumpled thyme, dusty earth and a hint of fresh oregano show on the nose of this bottling....
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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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Red
750ml
Bottle: $89.93 $96.00
Rated 97 - #52 in Top 100, 2022. A brilliant, youthful, unevolved wine that will give Ridge's Monte Bello a run for...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $58.94 $63.00
12 bottles: $58.71
Rated 95 - Powerfully ripe yet racy and thrilling with acidity, this deeply concentrated Chardonnay exhibits a...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $21.49 $24.00
Rated 90 - Complex and distinctive, with pear, nectarine and Honeycrisp apple flavors, salted melon accents and a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $61.89 $67.20
Rated 91 - This is more bone than flesh, with a wiry tannic structure around a core of savory, damson plum and blood...
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United States California Santa Cruz County Santa Cruz Mountains

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.