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Red
750ml
Bottle: $51.07 $51.79
6 bottles: $51.00
From Adi Badenhorst, Swartland's savoury, mineral and meaty tones chime though here, the fruit taken from a single...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.20
12 bottles: $18.82
Cinsault and Pais.
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $29.80
A fresh, complex, aerial Marsanne-based white wine. Notes of pear, peach, floral (hawthorn) and anise with a hint of...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $98.94
Golden yellow in color with aromas of white pear and apple blossom. Rich and textural on the palate with flavors of...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $26.94
12 bottles: $26.40
• 100% Fiano from 20-year-old vines. • Fiano vineyards are in the zone of Lapio at 500 meters above sea level....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.90 $27.60
Cinsault from the historic Bechtold Vineyard in the Mokelumne River AVA of Lodi. The twenty-five acre own-rooted...
White
750ml
Bottle: $27.12
12 bottles: $26.58
White
750ml
Bottle: $22.94
12 bottles: $22.48
Picariello’s Fiano Di Avellino is a wonderful, textured, phenolic white wine that is bursting with an underlying...
White
750ml
Bottle: $28.94
12 bottles: $28.36
The Ciro 906 bottling is only produced in the best, cooler vintages. 906 is the number of this parcel on the official...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.90
12 bottles: $17.54
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White
750ml
Bottle: $19.85 $22.00
Chamomile traces complement sweet flowers and crushed yellow apples as the 2022 Fiano di Avellino opens in the glass....
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White
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White
750ml
Bottle: $38.00
12 bottles: $37.24
• Practicing organic. • 100% Marsanne. • From multiple steep parcels in the villages of Mauves, Tournon – the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.01
12 bottles: $24.50
The 2021 Cinsault is from a nice vintage, cool and with healthy grapes that ripened well. It comes from a 65-year-old...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $21.50
Straw yellow in color with fresh notes of spice mixed with lime blossoms and honey. Palate shows mineral notes that...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $25.99 $28.88
12 bottles: $23.56
A lithe, light-bodied white, with a subtle skein of ground cardamom and ginger winding through ripe pear and apple...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.30
12 bottles: $14.01
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $17.50
The 2021 Zweigelt was grown on the southern edge of Kamptal on alluvial gravels. Subtle reduction is still smoky and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $7.88 $11.25
Zweigelt is a crossing between Blaufränkisch and St. Laurent created by Dr. Fritz Zweigelt at the Klosterneuburg in...
Red
1.0Ltr
Bottle: $18.94
12 bottles: $18.56
Rich and plummy quite lush for a ‘basic’ Liter wine, with almost a New World fleshiness.
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Cinsault Fiano Marsanne Savatiano Zweigelt Wine

Savatiano is probably Greece's most well known and most widely grown grape varietal, as it is the primary grape used in the production of Retsina, where the fermenting juices of the Savatiano varietal are flavored with pine resin in order to make this distinctive and famous wine. One of the reasons for the wide cultivation of this grape is due to its hardiness, and resistance to drought conditions. In the sun-drenched and dry, rocky Greek landscapes, this makes it an ideal vine to grow for wine-makers who require a strong and bounteous yield each year.

However, there are plenty of examples of Greek white wines which use the Savatiano grape but withhold from the addition the pine resin flavoring, allowing the true characteristics of this varietal to shine through. The result is often very pleasing indeed, with Savatiano grapes generally producing extremely well balanced and rounded white wines, with a juicily fruity flavor. Their aromas can vary quite a lot, with many Savatiano wines bearing the fragrance of citrus fruits, and also occasionally having a strong floral aroma reminiscent of elder and rose. Due to the relatively low acidity of Savatiano grapes, the wines which use them (including Retsina) generally bolster themselves with the addition of smaller quantities of more acidic varieties, such as Assyrtiko or Rhoditis, in order to improve their sometimes weak structure.

Additional Information on Greek Wines


Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?