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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.64 $15.41
12 bottles: $11.52
With an abundance of fruit aromas, the wine is produced from 100% Petite Syrah grapes from the vineyards of the...
White
750ml
Bottle: $45.00
• 100% Palomino. • From a less-than-one-hectare parcel of 80-year-old vines planted in slate at high altitude....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $9.84 $10.58
Aromas of cocoa and mocha, with flavors of boysenberry, blackberry and blueberry.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.93 $15.48
12 bottles: $11.58
This wine is rich, concentrated with aromas of blackberry, cumin, dried herbs and florals. The palate offers black...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $15.49
12 bottles: $15.19
Pretty, yellow gold colour revealing straw tints. Apricot and floral notes of white and yellow flowers. Good...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $39.94
12 bottles: $39.14
Brotte Condrieu "Versant Doré" (golden hillside) is a tribute to this sunny, steep terroir. Made from 100% Viognier,...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $18.94
Brilliant yellow in color with distinctive floral overtones of white rose petals, linden blossom, and acacia. Flavors...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $20.48
Brilliant yellow in color with distinctive floral overtones of white rose petals, linden blossom, and acacia. Flavors...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $47.99 $51.60
Only a 30-minute drive southeast of Napa, Suisun Valley (which became an AVA in 1982) is still largely undiscovered....
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750ml
Bottle: $13.95
12 bottles: $13.67
Certified HVE3*. From one of the highest acid grapes on planet earth, Gros Plant! (a.k.a. Folle Blanche). This...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.64 $19.60
12 bottles: $15.83
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.87 $15.41
12 bottles: $11.52
Cline Viognier shows juicy tropical fruit, fresh apricot and notes of mandarin orange and grapefruit. It’s luscious...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $11.94 $13.00
• 100% Viognier. • From the pastoral hills near the village of Vias along the Mediterranean coast. • 20+ year...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.36 $13.01
12 bottles: $8.08
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.36 $15.90
Gold color, Very aromatic wine with a hint of dry apricot, fresh white flower, honey and bit of buttery on the mouth....
750ml
Bottle: $15.17
12 bottles: $14.87
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.94 $18.80
12 bottles: $17.58
Intense perfume of apricot, honeysuckle, white flowers and lavender honey. This wine strikes a beautiful balance...
White
750ml
Bottle: $64.94
12 bottles: $63.64
• Vines planted on steep slopes (with a grade of up to 55%) facing south by south-east. • Grapes are hand picked...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $34.67 $35.99
Our Petite Sirah hails from Stone Tree Vineyard in the heart of the Wahluke Slope AVA and exemplifies the luscious...
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White
375ml
Bottle: $35.94
An exuberance of perfectly ripe yellow and white peaches, apricots, melon, pineapple and delicate white floral aromas...
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Caino Folle Blanche Sherry Petite Sirah Viognier Wine

Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.

Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.

Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.

Petite Sirah was first brought from France to America in the 1880s. It later went on to become one of the only grapes to make it through the devastating Phylloxera virus in the 1890s, both World Wars, and the Great Depression. During Prohibition, it was a main ingredient used to make sacramental wines. In fact, through the 1960s it was a major blending grape in a number of the finest wines produced in California.

By itself, a bottle of Petite Sirah usually has no problem making a quick impression on consumers. With a large amount of natural color and tannins, wines made with the grape commonly feature intensive sweet fruit characteristics like fresh raspberry or blackberry jam, black pepper spice, and plenty of backbone or structure.

There are a number of different styles available. Some concentrate on highlighting fresh, fruity flavors; others are bigger, more voluptuous; and it keeps going up the ladder until you reach the powerful, more machismo-style category.

Although primarily associated with the Rhone region of France, the precise origins of the Viognier grape variety are unknown, and the subject of much debate. However, these fine and delicate green skinned grapes are an important varietal for many of France's most elegant white wines, and they are quickly beginning to spread around the New World, too, where wineries are discovering their unique qualities and unusual character. Viognier grapes are notoriously difficult to grow, due to the fact they are highly susceptible to mildew, but wineries persevere with them nonetheless, producing wines which are highly aromatic and have a great, fruit-forward character. Their delicate aroma suggests sweetness due to its flowery, sappy nature, but the wine itself generally very dry and crisp, and full of summery, light and refined qualities.