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375ml
Bottle: $43.84
12 bottles: $42.96
Pure grape aromas that remind me of fermenting must but then goes to stems and dried flowers. Full-bodied, medium...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $72.90 $79.20
Pure grape aromas that remind me of fermenting must but then goes to stems and dried flowers. Full-bodied, medium...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $50.95 $55.99
This is a wonderful wood-aged, mature Port full of the classic old gold flavors and intense acidity over a dry...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $122.40 $136.00
This is a beautiful wine, aged tawny at its peak. The wood aging has given the old gold character that shines though...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $65.51 $72.79
Wonderfully aromatic with dark berry and stone character. Violets as well. Full to medium body. Precise and focused...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $68.49
6 bottles: $67.12
Just beginning to mature, this single vineyard Port from Dow's flagship estate is dense, generous and full of spice...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $14.64 $16.24
12 bottles: $13.59
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $27.94
12 bottles: $24.48
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $47.54
6 bottles: $46.59
Cherry candy, mulled plum and steeped red currant notes give this a caressing and flattering feel while black tea and...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $14.92 $16.24
12 bottles: $13.59
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $15.94
12 bottles: $14.09
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $15.99 $17.94
Made with wild blueberries which are small, concentrated and brimming with flavor. Blueberries are slowly fermented...
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $32.80
6 bottles: $32.14
This is a young, fruity style of Late Bottled Vintage. It emphasizes red fruits with a full, sweet richness. The...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $199.94
6 bottles: $195.94
Deep red color with dense violoet tones. Intense and elegant aromas dominated by ripe black fruits such as...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.49
12 bottles: $23.02
Colour: Deep ruby red with typical purple hues. Nose: Wide, vinous with notes of violet, cherry, currant, plum and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $30.95
12 bottles: $30.33
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $16.66
12 bottles: $15.83
An excellent representation of the Barbera variety, it has intense ruby red color and violet reflections. Del Martìn...
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $109.00
6 bottles: $107.80
The 1975 Colheita Port (Feuerheerd’s) is a blend of 35% Touriga Franca, 15% Touriga Nacional, 20% Tinta Barroca,...
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750ml
Bottle: $83.94
The 2017 Vintage Port, not quite bottled when seen but the final blend, is a field blend (with typical grapes like...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $32.40 $36.00
12 bottles: $28.12
The NV 10 Year Old Tawny was bottled in 2013 with a bar top cork. It comes in at 106.7 grams per liter of residual...
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Barbera Mencia Port Blend Robola

For centuries now, the beautiful red grapes of the Barbera varietal have been grown in Italy, where they are prized for their unusual high acid content and low tannins, brought about by their thin skins. The Barbera grape varietal thrives in warmer climates, and has had some success overseas in the new world, where its strongly aromatic flavors of intense hedgerow fruits make it a favorite with wineries and wine drinkers looking for a grape which offers plenty of interesting characteristics. Interestingly, the differences between young and aged wines made from this varietal are quite significant, with younger bottles holding a plethora of berry flavors, including blueberry and raspberry notes, and oak aged wines made from the Barbera grape being much loved for their ability to become extremely complex and spicy, and picking up vanilla flavors from the wood they are barreled in.

Port wine is Portugal’s great gift to the world. Coming from the ancient harbour capital city of Porto and the surrounding Douro Valley region, Port wine has been made by Portuguese vintners for at least four hundred years, although viticulture has been continually happening in the area for well over two thousand years. Port is a fortified wine, meaning it is a wine which has been bolstered by the addition of grape brandy. Originally, this was used as a method of preservation, allowing the delicate Portuguese wines to survive the journey by sea to trading partners in the UK and France. However, the wonderful taste and unique character the fortification process lends to the wine soon became massively popular, and before long, this new wine style was a hit all across Europe.


Unlike some other fortified wines, Port is made by adding brandy before the wine itself has completed its fermentation. The result of this is that plenty of the grapes’ natural sweetness is maintained in the barrel, meaning it is exceptionally smooth and rounded on the palate. Port comes in many different styles - Tawny Port wines are prized for their richness and mellow character, Reserve and Late Bottled Ports are full of fruit flavor. Vintage Port is a complex, wonderful thing - capable of standing up to some of the finest wines in the world when it comes to depth of flavor and fascinating features.

In the mountains of Cephalonia, the mineral rich soils assist in the growing of one of the finest of Greece's white grape varietals – the Robola grape. These noble yellowish grapes are notable for the wines they produce, which generally contain summer fruits, peach and citrus aromas, coupled with flavors which extend beyond the usual range of white wines, revealing smoky and mineral notes, and a lengthy, lemony after-taste. These fine characteristics helped the regions it is grown in gain AOC status, and wine-makers in this area have many generations of practice in bringing out the elegant and subtle characteristics of this grape.

Robola, and the other wines of Cephalonia have a long and illustrious history, being mentioned even in ancient epic poems such as Homer's Iliad. However, it was the Venetians who first recognized the great potential of Robola grapes, which quickly became the focus for the areas wine-makers and tradesmen. Nowadays, Robola wines act as an excellent example of a refined Greek dry white wine, which can be either drank as a light and refreshing summer aperitif, or alongside grilled white meats, salads, or white fish. Robola wines, as a rule, do not age particularly well, and it is highly recommended that bottles are drunk young, within two years of bottling. By doing so, you can enjoy the unique characteristics of this remarkable wine, complete with the balanced combination of chalky, smoky citrus flavors and delicate peach aromas which typify the finest examples of Robola varietal wines.

Additional Information on Greek Wines


Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?