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Nose: White flower, orange peel, nectar, maple. Palate: Full bodied. Finish: Long, gentle finish.
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Bright cherry red with juicy strawberry and savoury, cured meat aromas. Sweet berry fruit translates on the palate...
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$48.00
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$45.60
A beautifully dense and complex sake, the Ichiban Matoi contains notes of fresh tropical fruit like melon, papaya and...
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$176.34
Subtle sweet rice notes with a delicate fruitiness and a mellow sherry finish.
750ml
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$22.95
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$22.49
100% Gamay. Averaging 40 years of age, Valérie's Gamay vines are planted on clay-limestone soils in the heart of the...
720ml
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Rich toasted notes, flavors of hazelnut and cacao, a swirl of spices.
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Delicate and complex with notes of white flowers, honeydew, pear, and vanilla. The palate is smooth and silky with...
720ml - Case of 6
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$150.00
This sake is rich and floral with notes of rose, cherry, and almond. The palate is full and velvelty with deep and...
750ml
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$62.40
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$59.28
Beautiful nose of pear and white flowers. Lychee, mint, green apple. Bright palate and candied pineapple. Ripe, red...
750ml
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$108.00
The success of Zaku is due in no small part to their tireless and innovative Toji brewmaster Tomohiro Uchiyama. He...
Grenache Gamay Petit Verdot Sake Schioppettino 12 Ship Free Items
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.
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.