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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $253.78 $267.14
6 bottles: $240.91
Golden amber color. Aromas of toasted biscuit with raisins, charcoal briquettes, dried apricot, and grilled zucchini...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $34.56 $36.38
6 bottles: $30.47
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $34.56 $36.38
6 bottles: $30.47
Exotic and powerful nose of dried red plum, cherry blossom, butterscotch syrup, dried honey, and golden raisins. On...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $39.16
6 bottles: $30.47
A delicious dram with a sunny disposition, this drums out aromas of butter biscuits, raisins, vanilla sugar, cane...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $149.94
Saddle leather, golden berries, and tobacco are sturdy and stately aromas. The flavors open with velveteen honey,...
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96
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95
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Spirits
1.75Ltr
Bottle: $37.99
Gold color. Smoky aromas of dark browned biscuits, sourdough, smoked chocolate coated toffee, apricot, seaweed,...
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90
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Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $15.99
Gold color. Smoky aromas of dark browned biscuits, sourdough, smoked chocolate coated toffee, apricot, seaweed,...
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90
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $25.99
Gold color. Smoky aromas of dark browned biscuits, sourdough, smoked chocolate coated toffee, apricot, seaweed,...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $35.50
6 bottles: $34.70
The Epicurean is a blend of some of the finest Lowland Malts; a marriage of the best that the East and the West of...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $43.78 $46.08
12 bottles: $33.35
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $68.57 $72.18
12 bottles: $57.29
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.20
12 bottles: $20.78
• 100% Mavrodaphne. • Low yielding vines from loamy clay soils. • Fermented and aged in stainless steel.
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $27.30 $31.20
This golden and bright whiskey has mild aromas of apple and resin. The palate opens lightly in tones of oak, vanilla...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $35.75 $36.40
12 bottles: $35.04
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $24.98 $26.30
12 bottles: $21.57
This overachieving blend shows wonderful notes of white flower, beach sand, and graphite. Tasted the whisky has a...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $87.94 $97.79
Amazing depth of colour and outstanding red berry flavours, particularly strawberry, lend this red Icewine to pair...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $70.99 $76.94
This is a glorious icewine where acidity and sugar are in perfect harmony. The candied orange peel, ginger, straw and...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $66.94 $74.20
The 2019 Gold Vidal Icewine was fermented and aged for about 14 weeks in 90% new French oak. It comes in with 272...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $58.90 $60.00
6 bottles: $58.20
Vidal is a hybrid (Ugni Blanc and Seibel) that has a thick skin suitable for harvesting late in the season. It is the...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $21.02 $22.60
12 bottles: $20.33

Albarossa Blended Scotch Ice Wine Mavrodaphne

In the Archaea region, high in the Northern Peloponnese mountains, the predominant grape varietal grown is the prized Mavrodaphne. Meaning 'Black Laurel', the Mavrodaphne grapes have extremely dark skins, and ripen slowly under the Greek sunshine, helped by the mineral rich soils the vines thrive in. This grape varietal is mostly used to produce the opaque, inky fortified wine of the same name, which is popular all over Greece and elsewhere in the world. This fortified wine allows the grapes to really show off their complex and fascinating flavors, which range from a rich marzipan to flavors of bitter chocolate, sweet coffee, dried figs and prunes, as well as plenty of jammy fruit notes.

Mavrodaphne is produced in a traditional method which involves leaving the grape juice exposed to the sun in large vats, before having its fermentation halted by the addition of various distillates taken from previous successful vintages. This mixture contains plenty of residual sugar, which gives the end result its characteristic sticky sweetness, and also helps with the next fermentation process, which typically takes place in large underground cellars. The final product is a heady drink, absolutely bursting with unusual, rich and sweet flavors and carried in a dark and slightly viscous Port-like liquid.

Mavrodaphne grapes are also used for the production of still red wines, but are generally blended with varietals such as Agiorgitiko or imported grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon. Mavrodaphne grapes are excellent for mellowing more acidic varieties, and producing deliciously rounded wines, which have taken the international market by storm in recent decades.

Additional Information on Greek Wines


Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?