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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
12 bottles: $19.49
COLOR: Ruby red with violet highlights. NOSE: Intense bouquet of ripe fruits with notes of currants, blackberries and...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $13.80
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.32
100% Cortese. The perfect white to stock your fridge with when friends and family come over. Beautiful apricot and...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $30.60
12 bottles: $25.65
Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.57
12 bottles: $12.32
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
12 bottles: $28.36
• Practicing Organic. • 100% Dolcetto. • Sourced from a single site in Eola-Amity Hills AVA. • Destemmed,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $12.94 $14.30
12 bottles: $12.68
100% Cortese. The grapes used in this classic example of Gavi grew in the shadow of “Il Forte,” the iconic...
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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...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94
12 bottles: $16.60
This classic Dolcetto has an intense ruby color with violet reflections. The aroma is strong and fruity with notes of...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $18.20
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.50
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.90
Straw yellow with slightly greenish reflections. Intense scents of white flowers and fruit exacerbated by a delicate...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.94
12 bottles: $23.46
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.70
12 bottles: $11.47
A bright young dolcetto with clean, plummy fruit and a characteristic fruit-tea note. Medium body with fresh acidity...
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750ml
Bottle: $27.95
12 bottles: $27.39
This is a first release from Sandra and it is almost hard to believe that the wine turned out so beautiful (let’s...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.94
12 bottles: $13.66
• 100% Dolcetto. • From 1.5ha of vines. • Grown in calcareous soils. • Maceration with the skins for 4-5 days...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.94 $14.73
Made from 100% Cortese grapes, this delicious white is both soft and crisp. With a pleasant stony minerality, this...

Cortese Dolcetto Grenache Piedirosso 750ml

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.

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.