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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...
White
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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Red
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle: $82.65
Aromas of blackcurrants, iodine, oyster shell, and dark chocolate. Medium- to full-bodied with polished fine tannins...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $43.20
Aromas of blackcurrants, iodine, oyster shell, and dark chocolate. Medium- to full-bodied with polished fine tannins...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $70.20
92-94 Amici's 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve will spend 22 months in oak before bottling. It features deep cedar and...
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White
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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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.89 $21.20
Dark garnet velvet in color and texture, this Cabernet from Paso Robles highlights what the region is quickly being...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $81.95
The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Knights Valley is the second vintage of Anakota's second-label Cabernet, meant for...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.89 $19.19
12 bottles: $17.53
The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon delivers vivid aromas of violet, boysenberry and black currant with trailing hints of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $54.94 $60.79
Dark and concentrated fruit and wood aromas are intense but not overblown on the nose of this rich bottling. Very...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $54.71 $60.79
Dark in the glass, this is a dense expression from the estate's top blocks, offering aromas or elderberry, açaí and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.90 $15.83
12 bottles: $14.25
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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White
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
Red
750ml
Bottle: $75.94
6 bottles: $74.42
Saturated flavors of black cherries, black olives, dark chocolate and tobacco are wrapped in velvety, persistent...
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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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Red
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle: $159.00
96-97 This is a very beautiful red with currant and berry character. Very fine and polished tannins, too. The impact...
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Red
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle: $158.94
A full-bodied cabernet sauvignon that’s fruity on the nose with notes of crushed raspberries, berries and herbs....
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White
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
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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White
750ml - Case of 6
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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Cabernet Sauvignon Chardonnay Gamay Schioppettino

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.

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.