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Abreu Red Blend Cappella 2015
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$583.60
96-100 The 2015 Cappella should be close to perfection when it is finally released in several years. Inky...
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Abreu Red Blend Cappella 2017
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$441.23
Beautiful stuff, the 2017 Capella offers a perfumed, complex style with lots of cassis and darker fruits as well as...
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Abreu Red Blend Las Posadas 2011
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$402.18
The 2011 Las Posadas is a relatively delicate wine for Howell Mountain, but the vines were pretty young back then....
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Abreu Red Blend Las Posadas 2014
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$511.46
This is loaded with potent blueberry, acai berry and fig compote flavors that are dense but remarkably polished and...
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Abreu Red Blend Las Posadas 2015
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$650.34
A big version, with broad-shouldered currant and fig paste notes, wrapped in tar and roasted mesquite accents. The...
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Abreu Red Blend Thorevilos 2017
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$519.95
Even better than the awesome 2016, Abreu's 2017 Thorevilos Proprietary Red takes those familiar piney-herbal notes...
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Abreu Red Blend Thorevilos 2018
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$758.68
This doesn't pull any punches, with a deep well of compact black currant and blackberry paste flavors entangled with...
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle:
$132.88
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$67.56
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Adrien Renoir Champagne Grand Cru Le Terroir NV
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle:
$120.45
Renoir's NV Extra-Brut Grand Cru Le Terroir is showing very well, unfurling in the glass with aromas of nashi pear,...
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Adrien Renoir Champagne Grand Cru Le Terroir NV
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$57.94
Renoir's NV Extra-Brut Grand Cru Le Terroir is showing very well, unfurling in the glass with aromas of nashi pear,...
Champagne Blend Gamay Red Blend White Rhone Blend Pre-Arrival Wine
The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.
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.