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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $74.94
Intense yellow with highlights veering towards gold reflexes in color. Notes of fine tropical fruit with so, delicate...
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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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375ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $20.52
Pale yellow in color with greenish highlights and a rich tropical bouquet. Medium bodied on the palate with a...
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Sparkling
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $29.34
Pale yellow in color with greenish highlights and a rich tropical bouquet. Medium bodied on the palate with a...
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Sparkling
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $43.95
So pink, reflections veering towards salmon pink. Intense red berry and fruit compote aromas. Delicate but...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $35.05
12 bottles: $34.35
Rated 92 - White spring flower, orange zest and bread crust aromas are front and center. The elegant, creamy palate...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $29.94 $32.80
Rated 88 - The NV Franciacorta Golf 1927 is composed mostly of Chardonnay with a dollop of Pinot Noir. It’s rich...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $68.59
6 bottles: $67.80
Rated 92 - Aromas of yellow spring flower, mature stone fruit and bread crust waft out of the glass on this elegantly...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $61.55 $64.79
The grapes for this wine come from a single vineyard where the more than twenty-year-old vines enjoy the benefits of...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $53.94
12 bottles: $52.86
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $27.85 $29.50
12 bottles: $27.29
Rated 92 - This is very dry and chalky with lemon-rind and dried-pear character. Medium-fine bubbles give form to the...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $49.90
12 bottles: $48.90
This rose is characterized by a soft pink color that turns over the years to old pink, by an exuberant foam and a...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $36.90
12 bottles: $34.20
The Bellavista La Scala Vendemmia Brut Franciacorta DOCG from Bellavista seduces with very fine ascending perlage in...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $34.94
Rated 92 - Some bread dough and pie crust to the lightly cooked apples and hints of pear skins. It’s full-bodied...
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91
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $23.31 $25.90
Rated 92 - Notes of sliced apples, ripe guava, bread dough, roasted almonds and custard. Medium-to full-bodied and...
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92
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $22.93
12 bottles: $22.47
Rated 90 - A salmon-orange colored sparkling with aromas of strawberries, plum stones, chalk and candied orange....
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $32.90
6 bottles: $32.24
A fragrant wine, which immediately seduces you with its originality, presaging an exceptionally fresh taste. The...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $67.94 $74.00
6 bottles: $66.58
Rated 92 - A very attractive Franciacorta that frames Thai desserts and Cornish pasties against a sea of lemons and...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $33.82 $35.60
6 bottles: $28.80
Rated 92 - Aromas of white spring flower and yellow apple come to the forefront along with a whiff of brioche on this...
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90
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $23.63 $27.00
Rated 91 - Here's a lovely sparkling wine that offers a floral fragrance of white flowers and tropical fruit. The...
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Champagne Blend Italy Lombardy Franciacorta

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.

There are few countries in the world with a viticultural history as long or as illustrious as that claimed by Italy. Grapes were first being grown and cultivated on Italian soil several thousand years ago by the Greeks and the Pheonicians, who named Italy 'Oenotria' – the land of wines – so impressed were they with the climate and the suitability of the soil for wine production. Of course, it was the rise of the Roman Empire which had the most lasting influence on wine production in Italy, and their influence can still be felt today, as much of the riches of the empire came about through their enthusiasm for producing wines and exporting it to neighbouring countries. Since those times, a vast amount of Italian land has remained primarily for vine cultivation, and thousands of wineries can be found throughout the entire length and breadth of this beautiful country, drenched in Mediterranean sunshine and benefiting from the excellent fertile soils found there. Italy remains very much a 'land of wines', and one could not imagine this country, its landscape and culture, without it.

The beautiful north westerly wine region of Lombardy in Italy is home to many of the country's most characterful and well respected wines, most of which are grown on the shores of the stunning Lake Garda. The lake itself plays a vitally important part of the region's viticulture, as the climate around the river is cooler than in surrounding areas, thus tempering the heat of the vineyards and allowing the vines which grow there to ripen more slowly. For centuries, Lombardy wines have been considered amongst the finest in Italy, and today, the wine industry of the region is doing very well indeed. With wineries in Lombardy utilizing a successful blend of traditional and modern techniques, they are continually producing wines which express the excellence of the terroir the vines are grown on, and which contain fascinating and unique flavors and aromas.