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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $159.60 $168.00
Hans Reisetbauer is widely recognized as one of the world‘s great farmer-distillers, relentless in his pursuit of...
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $74.10 $78.00
The latest creation from master distiller Hans Reisetbauer. A cuvée of 50% Jamaican and 50% Reisetbauer‘s own...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $134.83
Founded by Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Concha y Toro in Puente Alto, Almaviva excels with its Bordeaux-inflected...
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1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle: $352.95
#97 Wine of the World 2022. Fresh and deep nose, full of blueberries, minty cassis, mussels, cigars, dark spice and...
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Red
375ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $91.50
#97 Wine of the World 2022. Fresh and deep nose, full of blueberries, minty cassis, mussels, cigars, dark spice and...
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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $183.00
#97 Wine of the World 2022. Fresh and deep nose, full of blueberries, minty cassis, mussels, cigars, dark spice and...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $148.95
A fresh and discreet Almaviva with subtle pencil shavings and cigar box to the cassis and hints of chili chocolate...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $53.78
Lots of finely roasted sweet spice and roasted sesame to the blackberries, cassis and iron, together with hints of...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $54.92
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.95
12 bottles: $25.43
From Marco: Rotburger, Sankt Laurent, Blauburger, Merlot and a few white vines, probably planted unintentionally, who...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $54.93
#9 TOP 100 WINES OF CHILE 2022. Such demure depth and focus on the nose, showing high-grade cedar wood with brooding...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $73.20
6 bottles: $72.00
The color is intense, deep ruby-red with violet highlights. The nose, intense and potent revealing black fruit aromas...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $56.54 $59.52
Deep and fresh blackberries and blueberries with tangy black-peppercorn, tar and dried-herb notes. Super-fresh and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.32
6 bottles: $19.91
Aromas of cooked cherries, blackberries, blackcurrants and dried herbs. Oyster shells, too. It’s medium-to...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $35.94
6 bottles: $35.22
COLOR: Intense purple-red and bright. NOSE: Expressive of wild, such as blueberries, raspberries and plums, rhubarb,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.93 $17.49
12 bottles: $15.83
A fleshy textured red, with a nice floral, red currant underpinning, this picks up mineral and plum details that...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $119.89 $120.79
This has a polished nose of black olives, oyster shells, thyme, salted chocolate, graphite, black fruit and cassis....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $139.93 $144.79
Complex and intense with a rare mineral quality for the hot 2020 vintage. Fresh blueberries, wild herbs, hot stones...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $16.66
12 bottles: $15.83
I initially found the 2021 Agreste too wild ("agreste" means "wild" in the Spanish language) with earthy notes, hints...
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Red Blend Rum Seltzer Austria Chile

It is difficult to categorize rum as a single spirit, because of all the spirits found around the globe, rum is perhaps the one which varies most dramatically from place to place. Clear, white rum - a favorite for cocktail drinkers - is perhaps the most prevalent example found today, but there is a whole world of darker, spiced and molasses-rich rums to explore, thanks to the fascinating history and wide reach this drink has.

Rum came about during the colonial times, when sugar was a huge and world-changing business. The molasses left over from the sugar production industry could easily be distilled into a delicious alcoholic drink, and provided extra income for the sugar traders. Before long, it became a favorite of sailors and transatlantic merchants, and it quickly spread across the Caribbean and Latin America, where it remains highly popular today.

The production of rum is a basic and simple one - you take your molasses, add yeast and water, and then ferment and distil the mixture. However, as is often the case, the devil is in the detail. The variation in yeasts found from place to place, the maturation period, the length of the fermentation and the type of stills and barrels used provide the rainbow-colored variation that gives rum its spectrum of styles and characteristics.

Archaeological evidence suggests that grapevines have been grown and cultivated in what is today modern Austria for over four thousand years, making it one of the oldest wine producing countries in the world. Over the centuries, relatively little has changed in Austrian wine, with the dominant grape varietals continuing to be Grüner Veltliner, Zweigelt, Pinot Noir and others. Austria is renowned for producing excellent and characterful dry white wines, although in the eastern part of the country, many wineries specialist in sweeter white wines made in a similar style to those of neighboring Hungary. Today, Austria has over fifty thousand hectares under vine, split over four key wine regions. The domestic wine industry remains strong, with Austrians drinking their local produce outside in the summer, and people around the world are beginning to once more rediscover this fascinating and ancient wine culture.

Chile has a long and rich wine history which dates back to the Spanish conquistadors of the 16th century, who were the first to discover that the wonderful climate and fertile soils of this South American country were ideal for vine cultivation. It has only been in the past forty or fifty years, however, that Chile as a modern wine producing nation has really had an impact on the rest of the world. Generally relatively cheap in price,Whilst being widely regarded as definitively 'New World' as a wine producing country, Chile has actually been cultivating grapevines for wine production for over five hundred years. The Iberian conquistadors first introduced vines to Chile with which to make sacramental wines, and although these were considerably different in everything from flavor, aroma and character to the wines we associate with Chile today, the country has a long and interesting heritage when it comes to this drink. Chilean wine production as we know it first arose in the country in the mid to late 19th century, when wealthy landowners and industrialists first began planting vineyards as a way of adopting some European class and style. They quickly discovered that the hot climate, sloping mountainsides and oceanic winds provided a perfect terroir for quality wines, and many of these original estates remain today in all their grandeur and beauty, still producing the wines which made the country famous.