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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $32.48 $34.19
6 bottles: $30.40
More delicate and floral than many garnachas from this area with a great balance on the palate between delicately...
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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $31.73 $33.40
6 bottles: $29.60
A super brambly red that has abundant rich and ripe, dark berry and cherry aromas. The palate is a riot of fresh dark...
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White
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $38.49
6 bottles: $37.72
This Graves is distinguished by its high percentage of Sémillon, sourced from vineyards in the greatest white wine...
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White
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $15.94 $18.22
This is a simple, refreshing white Bordeaux from importer Guillaume Touton, who works with several hundred producers...
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White
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $23.22 $25.80
6 bottles: $21.60
This is a simple, refreshing white Bordeaux from importer Guillaume Touton, who works with several hundred producers...
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Red
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $256.02 $269.50
This is a very tight and fine-grained red with a compressed mouthfeel. The fruit comes through to a class and...
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White
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $461.95 $487.37
This is an exotic dry white with dried mango and pineapple and some slate throughout. Full-bodied with dense, rich...
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White
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $445.70 $474.15
This has a fresh, floral aroma, with honeysuckle and elderflower notes leading the way, followed by a rather creamy,...
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White
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $507.84 $540.26
Distinctive, with jasmine and elderflower notes leading off, followed by a racy set of white peach, white ginger and...
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White
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $401.44
A minerally and solid Ygrec with sliced pear, dried lemon and some green melon. Full and layered with a lemon-sherbet...
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White
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $381.60
Lime and spicy pear with crushed stone. Kumquats. Smoke and iron. Kiwi. Full and rounded with bitter pear and steel....
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White
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle: $2286.02
The white of the vintage is the 2016 Haut Brion Blanc, a Sauvignon-dominated blend that includes just under 30%...
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White
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $1153.95 $1222.46
An intriguing flash of mint gives way quickly to white peach, tangerine, dried pineapple and singed macadamia nut...
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White
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle: $1233.76
Gorgeous, showing Bosc pear and Jonagold apple fruit laced with a bright green plum note and backed by alluring...
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White
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $119.95
Gorgeous nose, pineapple, passionfruit and mandarin - smells so expressive. Fully flavoured on the palate, this is a...
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White
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle: $86.52
This estate, owned by the Kressmann family, is particularly known for its white. Lightly wood aged, this wine is...
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White
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle: $111.88
Attractive, fresh-lemon and grassy nuances with wild herbs and slightly flinty elements, too. The palate has such...
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White
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $619.70 $659.26
This has loads of dried lemon, aniseed and fennel seeds aromas and flavors. Lemon zest as well. Full body and dry...
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White
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $705.53
This is tight and bright and shows so much energy and panache. Such a beautiful Margaux white with the stone,...
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White
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle: $685.70
The depth and intensity is very beautiful, yet with electrifying acidity that gives this wine energy and excitement....
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Cortese Grenache Vermentino Nero White Bordeaux 1.5Ltr Wine

The Cortese white wine grape varietal has been grown in and around south Piedmont, Italy, for at least five hundred years. Its delicate nature and moderate acidity have made it a favorite with people around the world, and it is most commonly served alongside the excellent seafood and shellfish dishes of the part of Italy it is traditionally grown in. Cortese grapes are easily identifiable by their lime and greengage flavors, and their generally delicate and medium bodied character. Cortese wines are also notable for their freshness and crispness, again, making them an ideal match for seafood. Whilst colder years often produce harsher, more acidic Cortese wines, practices such as allowing malolactic fermentation can solve any such problems and still produce delicious white wines made from this varietal.

The purple skinned grapes of the Grenache varietal have quickly become one of the most widely planted red wine grapes in the world, flourishing in several countries which have the correct conditions in which they can grow to ripeness. They thrive anywhere with a dry, hot climate, such as that found in central Spain and other such arid areas, and produce delightfully light bodied wines full of spicy flavors and notes of dark berries. Their robustness and relative vigor has led them being a favorite grape varietal for wineries all over the world, and whilst it isn't uncommon to see bottles made from this varietal alone, they are also regularly used as a blending grape due to their high sugar content and ability to produce wines containing a relatively high level of alcohol.

France is widely known as being the home of many of the world's finest white wines, and within France, the name which rings out across the wine world and is always associated with excellence of quality and flavor is Bordeaux. The white wines of the magnificent Bordeaux region are typically blended, and rely on the winemaker's skill and expertise to achieve the fine balance between the primary grape varietals used. Most blended white Bordeaux wines are made up of Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon and Muscadelle varietals, although there are actually nine grapes officially allowed by French wine law for the inclusion in Bordeaux white wines. The other six are Sauvignon Gris, Merlot Blanc, Ugni Blanc, Colombard, Ondenc and Mauzac, although the use of these other grapes has been in steady decline over the past century.