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Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.95 $25.60
12 bottles: $23.56
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.44 $16.25
An impressive, concentrated Nouveau, with ripe, fresh cherry and garrigue flavors that show a salty mineral...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.24 $19.20
This wine features a complex bouquet of raspberries, mulberries, rose petals, and wet stone. The palate is supple,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.00 $20.00
Floral and fruity, the aromas of strawberry, peach, violet and spicy cinnamon are common.
White
750ml
Bottle: $29.93
12 bottles: $29.33
The colour is bright on a pale yellow with light green hues. The nose is intense and well-balanced with hints of...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $73.90 $76.39
12 bottles: $72.42
Full and broad, with a well-structured framework for the green plum and citrus cream flavors, while subtle fleur de...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $17.91
Fermented naturally (carbonic maceration) and aged in cement and stainless steel. Fermentation lasts 8 – 12 days....
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White
750ml
Bottle: $40.66 $42.80
• Practicing organic. •70% Marsanne, 30% Roussanne. • 40+ year old vines. • Rocky gravel terroir. •...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $29.90 $33.19
• Vines planted on steep slopes (with a grade of up to 35%) facing south by south-east. • Grapes are hand picked...
White
750ml
Bottle: $25.10
12 bottles: $24.60
Very smoky and flinty in the nose, this is a powerful and exciting dry white for the Southern Rhone. So much...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
This small-batch Brouilly leads with delicious black fruit. The wine has a nose of pencil shavings, black plum, dried...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
What an attractive nose of violets this Fleurie has. A firmly structured wine for this appellation with serious...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.75
12 bottles: $18.38
Deep purple in color, this wine has an aromatic nose of blackberry, blueberry and hints of hibiscus. This vintage...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $44.94
12 bottles: $44.04
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $37.94
12 bottles: $37.18
From Gamay vines planted in 1978 in the coolest of the domaine's red wine parcels, the 2019 Mâcon-Cruzille Beaumont...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $37.94
12 bottles: $37.18
Offering up aromas of cherries, sweet red berries, violets and spices, the 2020 Mâcon-Cruzille Beaumont is medium to...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.94
12 bottles: $22.48
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.00
12 bottles: $17.64
This producer also owns vineyards in Burgundy and gives the Burgundian wood-aging treatment to the Beaujolais....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.90
12 bottles: $19.50
The 2019 Moulin-à-Vent Coeur de Terroirs, from 50-year-old vines, is matured in barrels and demi-muids. It has a...
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Blaufrankisch Gamay Schioppettino White Rhone Blend Wine

The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.


The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.

The Rhone region of France has been producing superb quality white blended wines for centuries, and is a region highly respected and esteemed around the world, with plenty of New World countries keen to emulate the styles and techniques displayed by the historic wineries and skilled vintners of the area. The secret to the Rhone's success when it comes to blended white wines is the careful and expert selection of certain grape varietals, which each lend special features to the blended wine and bring balance and harmony to the bottle. Most commonly, blended white Rhone wines feature no more than two grapes of either the Viognier, Rousanne, Marsanne or Grenache Blanc varietals, and are renowned for their exceptional flavors and highly aromatic, floral character.