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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.01
Purato Nero d'Avola is packed with punchy fruit, with an excellent structure, yet is completely approachable.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $10.90 $12.05
Purato Nero d'Avola is packed with punchy fruit, with an excellent structure, yet is completely approachable.
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $21.90 $22.80
12 bottles: $21.66
Black Muscat, another under appreciated muscat variety, is known in Europe as a table grape variety, Muscat Hamburg,...
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $23.90
12 bottles: $23.42
Essensia is a full-bodied sweet wine made with Orange Muscat grapes. The experience of Essensia is unmistakable: a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.07 $15.63
Nero d’Avola gives this wine a red passion color, hints of ripe fruit and an intense and harmonious taste....
Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $84.94
The 2012 Vin Santo is compelling, as it so often is. Caramel, honey, brown sugar and kirsch are some of the many...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94
12 bottles: $15.62
A firm and lightly chewy nero d'avola with earth and spice and some mushroom undertones. Medium body, solid tannins...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.94
12 bottles: $21.50
From a 1.5-hectare vineyard planted around 30 years ago. The vines are traditionally pruned in alberello, in other...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $22.84 $23.75
12 bottles: $22.38
This is a Vin Santo that is traditional both in its blend of Trebbiano and Malvasia grapes as well as in its method...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.12
6 bottles: $18.74
Insieme represents our wish to produce a totally natural wine, with absolutely no chemicals, from the grape to the...
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $93.94
12 bottles: $92.06
The 2019 Graacher Domprobst Riesling Beerenauslese is coolish, flinty and floral on the precise and aromatic nose...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $47.94
12 bottles: $46.98
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $118.95
Balls-to-the-wall power here, an enveloping BA that's elegant and not voluptuous, with creamy-malty flavors but even...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $105.94
The Selbachs’ 2006 Zeltinger Schlossberg Riesling Beerenauslese smells of resin, caramel, white raisins, and...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $18.23
Intense ruby red colour with garnet reflections in more mature wines. Aromas of rose and geranium. Still wine,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.71 $17.59
12 bottles: $12.36
Soft and velvety. Distinct characteristics of fruitiness come forth. Pairs well with Risotto, first courses of baked...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.57 $18.41
12 bottles: $14.69
The 2020 Nero d' Avola is darkly inward today, showing only hints of dusty black currant and sage. This is a soft and...
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Case only
Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $42.88
Charming wine with a very intense amber color; the alcoholic component enhances a wide and complex aroma with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.90 $24.00
• A blend of 60% Nero d’Avola with 40% Frappato from 10 to 25 year old vines. • Spontaneous fermentation occurs...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.94
12 bottles: $20.52
Intense ruby red color with aromas of cherry and raspberry, and a nicely balanced spicy background. Full, warm, and...

Colorino Dessert Wine Other Italian Reds Nero D'avola

Italy’s largest island, Sicily, has a wine producing history that can put most other European regions to shame. It was producing quality wines before the days of the Roman empire, and even the Ancient Greeks were not the first to cultivate vines on the island. For as long as anyone knows, the key grape varietal of Sicily has been Nero d’Avola, the beautiful, deep blue skinned grape which produces the region’s characterful, powerful red wines. While in the past, Nero d’Avola was mainly used as a blending grape, due to its deep color and intensely full body, it is today being increasingly celebrated as a single varietal wine grape, and is perfect for those who like their wines boisterous, loud and strong.



Nero d’Avola is grown pretty much everywhere on Sicily, as demand for wines made from this grape have never been higher. Despite its power and body, it is quite a versatile grape - it can be aged in oak barrels, which produces a dense and dark wine which puts its intense characteristics to good use, but it is also often drunk quite young, which allows its jammy, plummy character to come forward. It is also used to make rose wines in some appellations of Sicily, demonstrating a softer side to this otherwise heavy, deeply flavorful grape.