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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.74 $17.49
COLOR: The color is ruby red with violet highlights. NOSE: The bouquet is fruit-forward with notes of currants,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $17.49
12 bottles: $15.83
COLOR: The color is ruby red with violet highlights. NOSE: The bouquet is fruit-forward with notes of currants,...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.89
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COLOR: Ruby red with violet highlights. NOSE: Intense bouquet of ripe fruits with notes of currants, blackberries and...
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750ml
Bottle: $12.57
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Dolcetto d'Alba is a wine that is characterized by its fragrance and freshness: it has a ruby-red colour with hues of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.93 $18.66
12 bottles: $17.01
A fresh and bright dolcetto with bright cherry and lemon-peel aromas and flavors. Medium body. Crisp finish. Drink now.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.94
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• Practicing Organic. • 100% Dolcetto. • Sourced from a single site in Eola-Amity Hills AVA. • Destemmed,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.90 $20.88
6 bottles: $17.50
Ruby red in colour. On the nose, fragrant, fruity bouquet with hints of flowers. This is a very versatile piedmontese...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $68.02 $71.60
6 bottles: $68.00
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Red
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This classic Dolcetto has an intense ruby color with violet reflections. The aroma is strong and fruity with notes of...
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Spirits
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Light and delicate on the pallet, with soft notes of honey and an oaky depth.
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Red
750ml
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.70
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A bright young dolcetto with clean, plummy fruit and a characteristic fruit-tea note. Medium body with fresh acidity...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $41.80 $44.00
12 bottles: $35.63
The taste of sandalwood is present, a precious ingredient in Oriental incense used for aromatherapy, meditation, and...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $49.30 $51.90
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This skillfully aromatic whisky smells softly herby, floral, and nutty. On the palate, it’s smoky with some...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $65.55 $69.00
6 bottles: $63.17
The combination of mature single malts from Lowlands, Scotland and Niigata, Japan that have been double distilled in...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $155.13 $163.30
An intriguing nose combines exotic aromas of ripe banana, mango flesh, dried papaya, and key lime with indulgent oak...
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Colorino Dolcetto Grenache Japanese Whiskey 750ml

In Italian, Dolcetto means 'little sweet one' – a slightly misleading name, as the black grapes of this varietal have relatively little natural sugar and almost almost produce dry wines. However, the Dolcetto grapes are remarkably popular with those looking for a full, rounded and highly flavorful wine, and are grown extensively in their native Italy, and in many other countries around the world. Dolcetto varietal grapes tend to have quite a high level of tannin, due to their thick, black skins, and low acidity, resulting in interesting wines with a large feel in the mouth, despite being relatively light in body. They are most commonly associated with big, complex flavors such as liquorice and prunes, and are regularly described as having a finish similar to the flavor of bitter almonds.

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.

Whisky might not be the first thing that springs to mind when we think of Japanese fine produce, but over the past one hundred years, this fascinating and multi-faceted country has diligently forged a unique whisky identity which is growing in popularity, and which is entirely its own.

The story of Japanese whisky begins in 1918, when Masataka Taketsuru was sent to Scotland to undertake a tour of single malt distilleries in the Highlands, and bring home a knowledge of whisky and distillation skills. He returned full of inspiration, helped no doubt by his new Scottish wife, and alongside his friend, Shinjiro Torii, set up what would become a successful whisky industry.

Today, the Japanese whisky industry is spread over a relatively small handful of distilleries, which continue to use Scottish techniques and recipes, but with a hefty dose of distinctly Japanese experimentalism. This is displayed most obviously in the barrelling techniques the Japanese use - to create a distinctly Oriental set of tasting notes, native Japanese oakwood casks are used for ageing, alongside casks taken from plum wine producers, which impart a beautiful set of floral flavors to the whisky.

While some distilleries produce some excellent single malts, the majority of Japanese whiskies are blended, which reveals a unique set of flavors and aromas ranging from honeysuckle and orange blossom, to toffee and acetone.