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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $15.99
Deep ruby-purple in color, this wine boasts exquisite aromas of blackberries, blueberries, plum and spice. It is well...
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $202.94
3 bottles: $198.88
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $135.94
3 bottles: $133.22
The NV Brut Le Brut is another absolutely compelling wine in this range. Le Brut is 90% Chardonnay and 10% Pinot...
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93
BH
91
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Red
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle: $18.29
Food-friendly and downright yummy this is a complex wine with lots of layers and notes of earth, leather, red fruit...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle: $78.34
Pale yellow in color with greenish highlights and a rich tropical bouquet. Medium bodied on the palate with a...
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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $34.52 $38.36
6 bottles: $27.43
Leather, black plum and cassis aromas carry the nose of this wine. The full-bodied palate brings jammy blackberry and...
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91
JS
90
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Red
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle: $14.40
The Astica Malbec offers a pure, fruit driven example of Argentina’s signature grape. Medium in body with juicy...
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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $23.37 $24.60
6 bottles: $15.00
Black violet color. Aromas of blackberry jam, mulberry preserves, black tea, dark chocolate, orange blossom, and...
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88
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $176.13 $185.40
60% Pinot Noir, 25% Chardonnay, 15% Meunier sourced from more than 300 crus, including 85% grands and premiers crus;...
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96
W&S
93
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $443.00
3 bottles: $440.00
Enticing, fragrant aromas of toast, lemon zest and an earthy-smoky nuance lead to a palate of subtle Bosc-pear,...
JS
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $242.25 $255.00
A finely detailed Champagne, with pointillist bubbles softly bursting on the palate, carrying a delicate, layered...
VM
93
WS
93
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $25.81 $27.17
6 bottles: $16.68
Verdi Spumante is a natural, sparkling beverage imported from Italy. Deliciously sparkling and zesty, it has a soft...
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $156.00
3 bottles: $152.88
Very clean and bright with transparency of sliced lemon, pear and chalk. Medium to full body with a very creamy...
JS
92
WS
90
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $147.00
3 bottles: $144.06
A very pretty rosé with dried-strawberry and apple aromas and flavors. Some spiced-pear and iron undertones....
JS
93
JD
90
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $99.80
3 bottles: $97.80
Up-front flavors of star fruit, baked plum, toast and lemon curd are backed by bright acidity and a lively, frothy...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $89.94 $92.60
3 bottles: $89.60
An open-knit Champagne, this is lightly wooly in texture, offering a smoke-tinged overtone to the modest notes of...
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $143.94
3 bottles: $141.06
Disgorged in July 2019 with 5.5 grams per liter dosage, the NV Brut Grande Réserve is based on the 2016 vintage,...
WA
92
WS
92
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $139.65 $147.00
The NV Brut Vignes de la Vallée is a blend of 70% 2012 and 30% perpetual reserve that spent a whopping 68 months en...
VM
93
WA
92
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $96.94
6 bottles: $95.00
The house's NV Brut Rosé de Cuvaison is another standout. Tar, smoke and game are some of the aromas and flavors...
WA
92
VM
92
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $104.22 $115.80
The NV Thienot Champagne Brut tastes like a baby Krug with its rich, nutty, powerful style. Ample apple and citrus...
JD
92
WS
91

Champagne Blend Malbec 1.5Ltr

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.

The purple Malbec variety grapes which now grow all over the Old and New Worlds had their origins in France, where they are one of the few grape varieties allowed to be used in the highly esteemed blended wines of Bordeaux. However, it is perhaps the New World Malbec wines which have attracted the most attention in recent years, as they thrive in hot southern climates in ways they cannot in their native country, where the damp conditions leave them highly vulnerable to rot. Malbec grapes are renowned for their high tannin content, resulting in full-bodied red wines packed with ripe, plummy flavors and held in their characteristically dark, garnet colored liquid. In many countries, Malbec is still used primarily as a varietal for blending, as it adds a great level of richness and density to other, lighter and thinner varietals. However, single variety Malbec wines have been greatly on the rise in recent years, with some fantastic results and big, juicy flavors marking them out as a great wine for matching with a wide range of foods.