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750ml
Bottle:
$39.69
12 bottles:
$38.90
Aromas of currants, cedar and violets follow through to a medium body and fine tannins with a lovely, light velvety...
750ml
Bottle:
$23.60
12 bottles:
$23.13
Deep, violet-ruby red in color, New York ICON Merlot is a fruity wine with notes of plums and blackberries. Intense,...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$42.75
Warm and plush, with ample red fruit and classic spice aromas and flavors. Gentle notes of tobacco, clove, and black...
750ml
Bottle:
$31.52
6 bottles:
$30.89
So vibrant for its age, this has so many herbal aromas it’s almost got a herb-liqueur nose! Very cool and elegant,...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$69.94
Saturated garnet. Deep, smoke- and spice-accented red and blue fruit qualities on the nose. Smooth and fleshy in...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$36.80
Leuta 1,618 Merlot DOC Cortona comes from a vineyard cultivated in Cortona - Tuscany - IT -. The intrinsic...
750ml
Bottle:
$137.99
6 bottles:
$137.20
A red with focus and precision and beautifully ripe, polished tannins. It’s medium-to full-bodied with...
750ml
Bottle:
$240.79
3 bottles:
$240.00
This has gorgeous aromas of walnuts, chocolate, spiced plums, licorice and grilled herbs. Rich and chewy with a full...
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Castello Di Ama Vigna L'apparita 2017
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$167.82
Intense and exotic on the nose with blackberry, blueberry, violet and walnut aromas that follow through to a full...
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Chateau Laroque Saint Emilion Grand Cru 2017
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$54.78
Composed of 99% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc, the 2017 Laroque sports a deep garnet-purple color and is redolent of...
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Duckhorn Merlot Three Palms 2017
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$156.11
Powerful, rich and complex, with a refined mix of currant, dark cherry and plum tart flavors backed by suave,...
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Le Macchiole Toscana Messorio 2017
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$159.95
This wine shows beautiful clarity and class on the nose with roses, tar, currants, green and black olives and plums....
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Le Macchiole Toscana Messorio 2017
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$172.80
This wine shows beautiful clarity and class on the nose with roses, tar, currants, green and black olives and plums....
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Masseto Toscana 2017
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$758.45
The clarity of the ripe blackcurrants, black cherries and flowers in the nose is entrancing. Lavender, too. It’s...
Chenin Blanc Merlot Rum 2017 750ml
Originating in France yet now grown in many parts of the New World, Chenin Blanc is one of the most versatile and highly regarded white wine grape varietals on earth. These green skinned grapes hold a relatively high acid content, and as such can be used for making still white wines of exceptional quality, as well as superb sparkling wines (such as the Crémant wines of the Loire Valley) and extremely aromatic dessert wines. Their natural transparency means that they are a fine grape for expressing their terroir in the bottle, and winemakers often experiment with this varietal to coax unusual and intense flavors from the grapes, such as allowing the development of noble rot on the fruit in order to make sweet and viscous wines of a unique character.
With its dark blue colored fruits and high juice content, Merlot varietal grapes have long been a favorite of wine producers around the globe, with it being found in vineyards across Europe, the Americas and elsewhere in the New World. One of the distinguishing features of Merlot grapes is the fact that they have a relatively low tannin content and an exceptionally soft and fleshy character, meaning they are capable of producing incredibly rounded and mellow wines. This mellowness is balanced with plenty of flavor, however, and has made Merlot grapes the varietal of choice for softening other, more astringent and tannin-heavy wines, often resulting in truly exceptional produce. Merlot is regarded as one of the key 'Bordeaux' varietals for precisely this reason; when combined with the drier Cabernet Sauvignon, it is capable of blending beautifully to produce some of the finest wines available in the world.
It is difficult to categorize rum as a single spirit, because of all the spirits found around the globe, rum is perhaps the one which varies most dramatically from place to place. Clear, white rum - a favorite for cocktail drinkers - is perhaps the most prevalent example found today, but there is a whole world of darker, spiced and molasses-rich rums to explore, thanks to the fascinating history and wide reach this drink has.
Rum came about during the colonial times, when sugar was a huge and world-changing business. The molasses left over from the sugar production industry could easily be distilled into a delicious alcoholic drink, and provided extra income for the sugar traders. Before long, it became a favorite of sailors and transatlantic merchants, and it quickly spread across the Caribbean and Latin America, where it remains highly popular today.
The production of rum is a basic and simple one - you take your molasses, add yeast and water, and then ferment and distil the mixture. However, as is often the case, the devil is in the detail. The variation in yeasts found from place to place, the maturation period, the length of the fermentation and the type of stills and barrels used provide the rainbow-colored variation that gives rum its spectrum of styles and characteristics.