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Today it is part of the Fladgate Partnership - alongside Taylor’s, Croft and Wiese & Krohn - but like many of the...
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Very deep colour with compote of red berries, ripe concentration on the nose with aguardiente following onto the...
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750ml
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A big, bold and rich Port that is smooth and very plush with a velvet feel. The style is ripe and rounded, a...
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750ml
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A refined Tawny, offering a complex array of sweet cherry, dark plum and wild berry flavors, with accents of cinnamon...
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750ml
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Juicy, with plenty of crushed cherry and Asian spice flavors that feature milk chocolate notes. Cocoa powder and...
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Lots of pleasant, fresh red berries here with a hint of red licorice adding interest. Medium-bodied with fresh...
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Bottle: $21.90
A round, lush version, displaying black cherry, plum and accents of violet and earth. Balanced and succulent, with...
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750ml
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Clear, deep garnet with purplish highlight.
750ml
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Barbera d'Alba comes from the hilly areas around the city of Alba in Piemonte. Franco Amoroso Barbera d'Alba is rich...
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This has aromas of nutmeg, chocolate, cherries and poached plums. It’s medium- to full-bodied with lightly chewy...
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Franco Amoroso Barbera'Asti is elegant and polished with layers of dark red cherry fruit, lively acidity and subtle...
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Plum and cherry aromas are ripe and rich with intense fruitiness. Sleek attack, quite concentrated and assertive, but...
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750ml
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Our Barbera d'Alba comes from a wonderful range of estate vineyards. It is fermented for an average of 20 days and...
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750ml
Bottle: $30.90
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An outstanding example of Barbera from old vines, some dating back to 1949. Strained, deeply rooted plants produce...
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750ml
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Wine of notable structure with intense ripe fruit aromas and hints of spice. Full-bodied and smooth on the palate....
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Wine of notable structure with intense ripe fruit aromas and hints of spice. Full-bodied and smooth on the palate....
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750ml - Case of 12
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Intense ruby color. Free nose with notes of cherry and berries. Corresponding taste, full-bodied and balanced by...
750ml
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This traditional process allows the maintenance of the fresh acidity and spicy notes of an easy-to-drink, fragrant,...

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?