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A fresh, well-cut white, offering modest flavors of apple, beeswax and almond skin. Hints of lemon zest and smoke...
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Pale straw color. On the nose, persistent and aromatic, offering floral notes and nuances of fresh peach and golden...
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750ml
Bottle: $13.94 $14.73
A crisp, fresh Pinot Grigio with notes of white flowers, citrus, and a hint of honey. Lively and bright on the...
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750ml
Bottle: $18.62 $19.60
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.94
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Chardonnay greenish yellow. Shades of apple and lemon combined with touches of pineapple and honey. White fruits and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.41 $15.17
12 bottles: $12.36
With rich fruit flavors, Altoona Hills Chardonnay shows considerable complexity, reinforced with subtle notes of...
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750ml
Bottle: $11.90
12 bottles: $11.66
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White
750ml
Bottle: $39.84 $44.00
The color of this wine is best described as pale straw with a slight tint of emerald green. The nose opens as a...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $23.90
Yummy spices like nutmeg, vanilla bean and cloves waft from the glass before rich golden apple, spiced apple, light...
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750ml
Bottle: $14.90 $15.83
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Lime juice, chalk, plumeria and peach make for a zippy, yet ripe nose on this bottling. The palate's citrusy core...
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750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
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Bottle: $27.64
Granny Smith aromas meet with something flinty and vegetal. This wine is lean, racy, muscular and linear with bright...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $11.70
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Intense nose of apricot and cheese, derived from wild ferment and age on oak lees. Long dry finish with intense...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.08 $14.82
12 bottles: $11.40
Fragrant bouquet of fruity and delicate with elegant floral notes. The palate doesn't disappoint, thanks to a...
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Bottle: $26.56 $27.96
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White
750ml
Bottle: $41.94
12 bottles: $41.10
• 100% Chardonnay. • Old Wente selection planted in 1999 by Ulises Valdez on Goldridge Soil in a block of...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.20 $18.00
12 bottles: $14.69
Stonefruit, nectarine and a light hint of lemon on the nose. Bright, tangy and light in the mouth with both nectarine...
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Bottle: $91.80
This is a generous, layered white with lots of cooked apples and hints of coconut and vanilla. Full body. Phenolic...
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Bottle: $51.93
This is a generous, layered white with lots of cooked apples and hints of coconut and vanilla. Full body. Phenolic...
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1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle: $91.80
Slightly more expensive, the 2019 Chardonnay A26 is cut from the same cloth as the Mountain Select release yet offers...
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Chardonnay Friulano Grappa Pinot Gris Pisco

Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.

Like so many of the great spirits of Europe, Grappa was born from a need to make resources go that little bit further, to eke out the last drop of flavor and potential from the crops of winemakers. Indeed, Italian vintners invented Grappa as a way to make use of the pomace - leftover grape skins, stems, pulp and seeds - which remained after the juice was extracted from the fruit needed to make wine. Over the centuries, the process was refined, and the distillation of Grappa became an art in itself. Today, top Grappa producers use a range of state of the art equipment, from continuous stills to pot stills, to manufacture a wide variety of Grappas, each with their own distinct characteristics.


Most of us know Grappa from our local Italian restaurants, where it is commonly served as a digestif. However, in the twenty first century, there is a high interest in unique, boutique Grappas, which showcase the talent of the distillers through a range of interesting qualities. Grappa can be aged in oak, in which case it takes on a beautiful golden color, quite different from the clear Grappas we are most familiar with. The high end Grappas are a world away from the harsh spirit many of us have encountered, and have a smooth, gentle quality which can be nothing short of a revelation.

The Pinot Grigio or Pinot Gris grape varietal is now one of the most widely grown vines in the world, due to the surge in popularity of Pinot Grigio wines over the past twenty years or so. These grayish-blue fruits, which hang in their distinctively conical bunches, are responsible for a very broad range of wines famous for their variety of color tones and flavors Pinot Grigio varietal grapes are highly influenced by terroir, climate and particularly the skill and expertise of the vintners who process them. As such, there are full bodied, amber colored wines made from this grape, and there are equally delicious yet far leaner, paler, lighter bodied and crisp white wines made from the same species in other parts of the world.