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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.52
12 bottles: $17.86
Ruby-red coloured wine tending to violet-purple. Soft fruit aroma with a prevalence of plum and morello cherry. Well...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.93
12 bottles: $21.49
• 100% Aglianico. • From Montemiletto, within the Taurasi DOCG appellation. • Altitude is 500-700 meters. •...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $20.00
Red ruby tending to garnet. Complex nose with scent of cherry, black plum, herbal such eucalyptus. Notes of tobacco,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.90
12 bottles: $16.56
Stewed damson, licorice root and a faint waft of dried tobacco leaf, the calling card of aglianico. Mid-weighted and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.50
12 bottles: $18.53
The 2020 Aglianico del Vulture Superiore Gricos lifts from the glass with a pretty bouquet that mixes dusty rose with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.03 $15.59
12 bottles: $13.99
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.94
Fresh and stylish, with abundant cured tobacco, ground anise and white pepper accenting ripe black plum and currant...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.05
Deep ruby. Intense aromas of black cherry, wild blackberry, violet and spices. Elegant and soft on the palate, with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.84 $19.60
12 bottles: $18.62
100% Aglianico grown in calcareous clay soils. Maceration on the skins is 10-12 days in steel, followed by six months...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.94 $15.75
A pristine and slightly rustic expression of aglianico with red cherry jam, rust, roasted herbs, peppercorn and cocoa...
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Aglianico Blended Scotch Grignolino Rye Whiskey 2020

Aglianico is a black skinned grape most commonly associated with the exquisite wines of the Campania region of Italy. It thrives most happily in hot and dry climates, and as such, has had plenty of success in the New World, particularly in the United States, where it is used to great effect in many red wines. It was believed to come from Greece several thousand years ago, brought by Pheonician tradesman, and was wildly popular in Roman times, when it was used in the finest wines made by the Roman empire. Aglianico grapes produce full bodied red wines which have a high tannin and acid content. As such, it has excellent ageing potential, and with a standard amount of time in a barrel, it rounds out and mellows to produce beautifully balanced wines.

Rye Whiskey is enjoying something of a renaissance of late, with sales rocketing in recent years thanks to a growing interest in strong, unique flavors, and small, independent distilleries. Rye Whiskey is a drink which is all about powerful, bold flavors, with plenty of spice and bitterness when drunk young. Aged, however, it takes on a deep set of subtle notes which are beautifully mellow and complex, and becomes a fascinating example of what whiskey can be when made with expert hands.

In order for an American Whiskey to be labeled a Rye Whiskey, it must have a mash content which is no less than fifty one percent rye. This separates it from Bourbon, and it is this which gives it its distinctive flavor and spiciness. Toffee, cinnamon, caraway, cloves and oak are typical tasting notes, and ‘straight rye’ whiskies - which are aged in charred oak barrels - take on plenty of the smokiness of the wood, adding a further, fascinating facet.

Rye Whiskey has its spiritual home in the northeastern states of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and cities like Pittsburgh produced vast quantities of Rye Whiskey in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most the old distilleries were closed during the prohibition era, after which time rye whiskey more or less disappeared completely, but the twenty-first century is seeing old recipes being resurrected and released to rave reviews.