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Red
750ml
Bottle: $51.07 $51.79
6 bottles: $51.00
From Adi Badenhorst, Swartland's savoury, mineral and meaty tones chime though here, the fruit taken from a single...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.20
12 bottles: $18.82
Cinsault and Pais.
Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
Ruby red in color with aromas of wild blackberry and ripe plum. Intense and elegant on the palate with notes of red...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.00
12 bottles: $14.25
Intense aromas of marasca cherry and redcurrant with hints of blackberry jelly. Dynamic and enveloping on the palate...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.90
Cannonau is a typical grapevine in Sardinia that here in Usini assumes unique organoleptic nuances that are found in...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.90 $27.60
Cinsault from the historic Bechtold Vineyard in the Mokelumne River AVA of Lodi. The twenty-five acre own-rooted...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.44 $13.09
12 bottles: $9.51
Completely Dry. Baco and oak aging produced a bold, intense wine perfect for red meat dishes.
Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.25
12 bottles: $15.93
Known in France as Grenache, this classic Cannonau is full-bodied, pure and authentic. It is a brilliant Ruby red and...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.01
12 bottles: $24.50
The 2021 Cinsault is from a nice vintage, cool and with healthy grapes that ripened well. It comes from a 65-year-old...
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750ml
Bottle: $37.69 $41.70
Red
750ml
Bottle: $59.94
#76 TOP 100 WINES OF SOUTH AFRICA 2022. Rather inviting aromas of red cherries, baked strawberries and grated nutmeg....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94
12 bottles: $16.60
A lifted, light red with ripe tannins, depth, and drinkability from whole bunch fermentation. As always, there is a...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.25
12 bottles: $17.89
A sharp, fresh nose features astringent fruit, new pencils, clean earth and a refined florality that more than holds...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $35.52
6 bottles: $34.81
COLOR: Dark red purple hues. NOSE: Balsamic notes, intense aromas and spicy finish. FLAVOR: Long finish, sapid.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.93 $19.60
6 bottles: $17.57
The DOC Cannonau di Sardegna has an intense ruby red color. The mouthfeel is fresh, with a good structure and dense,...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $30.95
12 bottles: $30.33
From a 60-80-year-old vineyard with granitic soil. 50% foot-stomped, 50% hand de-stemmed with zaranda, fermented in...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.87
12 bottles: $19.47
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.89
The 2021 Hub, named after jazz trumpet player Freddie Hubbard because the wine comes from a higher and rockier place...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $59.94
12 bottles: $49.94
The pure Cinsault 2021 Miles was dedicated to Miles Davis and produced with grapes from an old vineyard in the zone...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $37.50
The single-vineyard Cinsault 2021 Monk comes from a rented vineyard in Guarilihue-Tiajacura on silt and iron soils...
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Aidani Baco Noir Baga Grenache Cinsault Wine

One of the most ancient of the Greek grape varietals, Aidani has been cultivated on and around the Cyclades for millennia for its versatility and gently pleasing aromatic qualities. Wines made primarily with Aidani grapes tend to have a milder alcohol content than other classic Greek wines, and relatively low acidity. This makes Aidani wines a perfectly pleasant accompaniment to a wide range of traditional Greek foods, and equally pleasant to drink chilled at any time under the Greek sun. Nowadays, Aidani grapes are mostly likely to used as a blending grape, often being mixed with Assyrtiko grapes to balance out and mellow the acidity and high alcohol content found in them.

As a blending grape, the Aidani offers light, delicate floral tones, often reminiscent of a Muscat. On the island of Naxos, it has been traditionally blended with the Athiri grape to produce the island's signature sweet wine, Apiranthos, where the subtleties of the Aidani grape are really allowed to shine through. However, elsewhere in Greece you are far more likely to find the blend of these two distinctive grapes in dry white wines, where the Aidani is used primarily not for its flavor, but for its aroma and mellowing effect.

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?

The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.


For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.