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White
750ml
Bottle: $26.40
Chopped apples, fresh pears, hints of smoke and nougat on the nose. Creamy and full-bodied, balanced by vibrant...
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Rose
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
100% Xinomavro grown in the high-altitude (660m) sandy soil of Amyndeon, Greece’s only appellation for rosé....
White
750ml
Bottle: $13.94
12 bottles: $13.66
Made from 100% Chardonnay, half of which was fermented in oak giving lovely depth and complexity.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $28.64
12 bottles: $28.07
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Rose
750ml
Bottle: $15.17
12 bottles: $14.87
An impressive wine to the sight, due to its marked reddish hues. In the nose, it has a medium to high intensity, with...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $14.25
Alta Vita embodies the spirit and purpose-driven lifestyle of the Sardinians. The wine is full-bodied, robust and...
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Rose
750ml
Bottle: $17.49 $18.41
12 bottles: $13.99
This pale pink wine is full of white peach and strawberry aromas and flavors that give way to a soft lovely texture.
White
750ml
Bottle: $14.94
12 bottles: $13.99
Chardonnay greenish yellow. Shades of apple and lemon combined with touches of pineapple and honey. White fruits and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.41 $15.17
12 bottles: $12.36
With rich fruit flavors, Altoona Hills Chardonnay shows considerable complexity, reinforced with subtle notes of...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $39.84 $44.00
The color of this wine is best described as pale straw with a slight tint of emerald green. The nose opens as a...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $24.94 $35.94
Moving to the four Chardonnays I was able to taste, the 2018 Chardonnay Sonoma Coast reveals a light gold color as...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $23.90
Yummy spices like nutmeg, vanilla bean and cloves waft from the glass before rich golden apple, spiced apple, light...
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Rose
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.95
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Rose
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $15.00
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Rose
750ml
Bottle: $18.69 $20.40
12 bottles: $18.32
80% Carignano, 20% Alicante Nero (aka Grenache). This is the 1st Rosato from Ampeleia! The Carignano was...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.90 $15.83
12 bottles: $14.25
Lime juice, chalk, plumeria and peach make for a zippy, yet ripe nose on this bottling. The palate's citrusy core...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
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Rose
750ml
Bottle: $20.89 $23.20
Wild strawberry, nectarine, jasmine, watermelon rind, white cherry, citrus.
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Rose
375ml
Bottle: $10.94 $12.00
This wine displays a pale peach, almost rose gold hue in the glass, and the striking aroma of fresh cherry limeade...
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Rose
750ml
Bottle: $13.89
12 bottles: $13.61
This wine displays a pale peach, almost rose gold hue in the glass, and the striking aroma of fresh cherry limeade...
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90

Grenache Chardonnay Rose / Blush Sideritis

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.

Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.