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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $215.65 $227.00
The 2016 Extra-Brut Special Club Lieu-Dit Les Fortes Terres is showing beautifully, wafting from the glass with...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $270.94
3 bottles: $265.52
The 2018 Brut Les Fortes Terres (100% Meunier) is a bold, explosive wine that shows a notably exuberant expression of...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $125.23 $131.82
3 bottles: $120.66
An array of fresh berries and peach-driven stone fruits take center stage in terms of aromas and flavors. The palate...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $121.41 $127.80
100% Chardonnay. Didier Gimonnet’s aspiration for his entry NV is a cuvée with attack on the front, roundness in...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $139.83 $147.00
A very pale rosé champagne with delicate strawberry and raspberry aromas, but this is as much about the elegance of...
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Sparkling
Sparkling
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $142.27
4 bottles: $131.11
This offers fresh and attractive fruit aromas with a gently flinty, white-peach and white-flower fragrance on offer....
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Sparkling
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $98.95
6 bottles: $96.97
Although it is labeled Extra Brut, this wine's bottle age has done wonders for the crisp intensity of a dry...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $121.50 $135.00
A mouthwatering Champagne, with a fine mousse, this offers juicy flavors of plum, candied grapefruit zest, ground...
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White
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $23.52 $24.76
6 bottles: $14.73
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White
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $23.52 $24.76
6 bottles: $14.73
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $686.85 $723.00
The 2013 Champagne Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill Brut, composed of 95% Pinot Noir, is the 20th release of this cuvée,...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $686.85 $723.00
Very complex nose with a wide spectrum of candied citrus, dried peach and mirabelle tart aromas. Bold and rich,...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $243.00
3 bottles: $240.00
The 2015 Champagne Brut Vintage is 60% Pinot Noir, with the rest Chardonnay, and takes on the more noble feel of the...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $139.80 $147.16
3 bottles: $112.00
Peach, lemon, grapefruit, biscuit and some honey on the nose. Creamy and round with a juicy, peachy and lightly...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $90.25 $95.00
The NV Brut Tradition Grand Cru is fabulous. Rich, ample and creamy in the glass, the Brut Tradition captures all of...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $49.80
6 bottles: $48.80
The pale sparkling rosé 2022 De Nit is a blend of 49% Xarel.lo, 34% Macabeo, 12% Parellada and 5% Monastrell that...
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Champagne Blend Sherry 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.

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.