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Red
750ml
Bottle: $142.90 $147.12
COLOR: Deep Violet. NOSE: The bouquet of this wine is an intense dark fruit, with hints of coffee, dark chocolate and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.76 $13.43
12 bottles: $10.45
Round, smooth and full-flavored. It has a purplish color and spicy aroma. Balanced with smooth tannins, rich plums...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $17.91
12 bottles: $13.99
Lots of fruit and flowers here. Elegant violets, dark cherries and a fine twist of peppery spice. Quite juicy on the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.36 $20.40
12 bottles: $16.63
A nicely juicy and fine-grained malbec with restrained sweet spices, blackberries, blueberries and a hint of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.50
12 bottles: $12.25
White
750ml
Bottle: $42.00
12 bottles: $41.16
Attractive and nervy nose with white pepper funk, wild berries and grapefruit. Full-bodied and flavorful for a rosƩ...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $24.00
12 bottles: $23.52
ā€¢ 100% ListĆ”n Blanco (Palomino). ā€¢ Sourced from ungrafted centenary vines at 500-600m altitude in the village of...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $10.93
Beautiful red fruits such as plums and cherries. The palate offers a balanced mouthfeel with flavors of redcurrant...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $11.99
Perfumed yet focused nose with lots of violets and deep but fresh blueberries. Very pure. A mineral undertone makes...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.08 $14.82
12 bottles: $10.46
An intense red-colored wine. The nose has aromas of ripe red fruit. It is elegant and balanced on the palate, with...
White
750ml
Bottle: $45.00
ā€¢ 100% Palomino. ā€¢ From a less-than-one-hectare parcel of 80-year-old vines planted in slate at high altitude....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.94
12 bottles: $12.35
Sweet berries and cherries with some dusty-earth aromas that follow through to a medium body, light tannins and a...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $57.89 $60.94
6 bottles: $57.34
Boondocks American Whiskey Cask Strength 118 Proof has distinctive aromas of rich caramel and vanilla. A robust and...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $41.42 $43.60
6 bottles: $35.73
Aged in American white oak barrels previously used to age bourbon Boondocks American Whiskey is made from corn, rye...
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Red
3.0Ltr
Bottle: $18.94
TASTING NOTES Bota Box Malbec is easy drinking, with a big, jammy fruit profile. Ripe blueberry and blackberry notes...
Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $65.94
The acidity of the Riesling grape keeps this sweet dessert wine in balance with notes of honey and caramel.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.57
12 bottles: $28.00
Planting a forest one bottle at a time. Browne Family Vineyards is honored to partner with One Tree Planted....
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $28.49 $29.99
6 bottles: $23.99
SWEET START TO A SMOOTH NIGHT. BSB-Brown Sugar Bourbon is our OG classic. The smooth whiskey flavor warms up the...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $24.79 $26.10
6 bottles: $20.20
Infused with burnt sugar flavor, Bubba's BS Burnt Sugar Whiskey delivers a unique taste experience to any party....
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $24.79 $26.10
6 bottles: $20.20
Lock up the taste of Bubba's with Bubba's MC Marshmallow Chocolate Whiskey. Whether as a shot or in a drink with...

American Whiskey Ice Wine Malbec Sherry

The United States of America is a country of great cultural diversity, influenced by migrating nations from across the world. As such, its whiskey industry is a fascinating and complex one, which represents the range of regional differences found there.

The Irish were the original pioneers of American whiskey, and when they emigrated in their thousands from the old country, they brought their skills, knowledge and distillation techniques with them, to give them something to remind each other of home in the New World. This is why American whiskey goes by the Irish spelling, with the additional ā€˜eā€™, and why many traditional American whiskies closely resemble the original Irish style.

Today, there are several different types of American whiskey, and the styles and production techniques are now set out in US federal law, cementing a set of characteristics and production methods to preserve and protect the industry.

Corn whiskey, which is made from a minimum 80% corn in the mash and aged for a short period, is probably the most historic of the American whiskey styles, but others like rye whiskey, which is made from a minimum of 51% rye and aged in charred barrels, are growing in popularity among a new generation of drinkers looking for something unique, interesting and independently produced. Alongside these styles, we find Tennessee whiskey, which uses maple charcoal for sweeter notes, the softer wheat whiskies, the world-dominating Bourbon whiskies, and others which are peculiar to specific states and regions.

The purple Malbec variety grapes which now grow all over the Old and New Worlds had their origins in France, where they are one of the few grape varieties allowed to be used in the highly esteemed blended wines of Bordeaux. However, it is perhaps the New World Malbec wines which have attracted the most attention in recent years, as they thrive in hot southern climates in ways they cannot in their native country, where the damp conditions leave them highly vulnerable to rot. Malbec grapes are renowned for their high tannin content, resulting in full-bodied red wines packed with ripe, plummy flavors and held in their characteristically dark, garnet colored liquid. In many countries, Malbec is still used primarily as a varietal for blending, as it adds a great level of richness and density to other, lighter and thinner varietals. However, single variety Malbec wines have been greatly on the rise in recent years, with some fantastic results and big, juicy flavors marking them out as a great wine for matching with a wide range of foods.

Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.

Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.

Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.