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White
750ml
Bottle: $55.93 $57.60
12 bottles: $51.30
Mellow, intricately blended spices, butter, toast and generous fruit flavors give this wine a pleasing, rich...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $61.94
This wine from one of Kosta Browne's founders shows just-ripe black cherry and blackberry flavors that are compelling...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $24.84 $27.60
12 bottles: $18.24
Red
750ml
Bottle: $37.00
6 bottles: $36.26
Shows accents of fresh-cracked white pepper to the dried red fruit and berry flavors, which are framed by crunchy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $32.04 $35.60
6 bottles: $21.20
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750ml
Bottle: $41.88
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Floral aromatics of violets and red flowers, with a bright palate of fresh yet salty berry and dense but ripe,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $37.90
12 bottles: $37.14
The Dutton Ranch Chardonnay showcases the appellation and our vision for this wine beautifully, giving us the classic...
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1.5Ltr
Bottle: $69.50
6 bottles: $68.11
Upbeat, strawberry aromas in a fine, bright and fragrant mode. This is really expressive pinot. The palate has soft,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.85
12 bottles: $33.17
A textbook Russian River Valley Pinot, with a burst of pomegranate and black cherry fruit laced with blood orange,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.94
12 bottles: $17.58
A premium oaked Chardonnay, Duxinaro has roasted pineapple and toasty aromas with more lime and peaches on the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $46.44 $51.60
6 bottles: $37.22
Juicy and friendly, with tasty, up-front plum and black cherry fruit lined with hints of potpourri and rose petal...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.94 $43.60
This 2019 vintage from Hallberg Ranch is characterized by a fruit outburst and mild acidity. The wine is extroverted,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $38.34 $41.59
12 bottles: $36.09
With its fragrant Meyer lemon and vanilla perfume, citrus zest notes on entry and gushing fruit, the 2021 vintage...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $46.44 $51.60
12 bottles: $45.60
A fragrant dried rose petal and berry potpourri flows a lush, juicy entry. Darker raspberry preserve and blackberry...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $41.42 $43.60
6 bottles: $40.00
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White
750ml
Bottle: $42.00
12 bottles: $41.16
This wine comes from our uppermost mountain vineyard grown at 2000 ft above the Pacific. Sobrante loam soils packed...
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750ml
Bottle: $41.88
12 bottles: $41.04
The 2021 Pinot Noir Olivet Ranch is laced with crushed red berry fruit, spice, cedar, tobacco, incense and dried...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $74.93
Aromas are complex with citrus, yeastiness, pear, honey and just a touch of sweet, toasty French oak. Across the...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $71.89
Aromas are complex with citrus, yeastiness, pear, honey and just a touch of sweet, toasty French oak. Across the...
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United States California Sonoma Valley Russian River Valley

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.

California's beautiful and remarkably fertile Sonoma Valley has grown over the decades to become one of the United States' most respected and profitable wine regions, with wineries within the region benefiting from the superb Californian sunshine, low rainfall and wonderfully rich soils. Because of this vital combination of excellent conditions, the region is able to grow a wide range of grape varietals for use in the production of an impressive array of wines, with many different red and white wine grapes flourishing each year and producing excellent and characterful results. The soils have been enriched by volcanic activity, and the presence of geothermal springs, which make this region a unique one, and very much the beating heart of California's ever growing wine industry.

Of all the wine producing regions in California, Sonoma County is one of the most highly regarded, having had a long and fruitful history which has helped shape the American wine industry. Within Sonoma County, we find the AVA of Russian River Valley, a beautiful viticultural area centred around the Russian river, and responsible for around one sixth of Sonoma’s high quality wine production. The vineyards of the region were first planted some two hundred years ago by immigrant communities coming over to California. At first, the vines planted here were generally for private consumption - a reminder of home gardens in Spain and Italy - but by the beginning of the twentieth century, business was booming with a couple of hundred wineries in operation, thanks to the unique nature of the terroir and the effectiveness with which the grapes were growing.

The Russian River Valley is renowned worldwide for the character and quality of its wines, which are the result of the region’s perfect, cool climate, which is affected by the Pacific fog which rolls in over the valley. This coolness tempers the strong sunshine of the area, and allows for a longer, slower ripening season - thus adding character and expression to the grape varietals which grow there. The main vines grown in Russian River Valley are cool climate grapes - Pinot Noir and Chardonnay - which make up for over forty percent of the grapes grown there. The hillier parts of Russian River Valley have had great success with Syrah and Zinfandel, and other parts of the region are experimenting successful with Bordeaux grapes, too.