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Spirits
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This medium-bodied whisky begins with an enticing nose of leather and a hint of firewood. A sip reveals a delicate...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $60.31 $63.48
12 bottles: $44.57
This medium-bodied whisky begins with an enticing nose of leather and a hint of firewood. A sip reveals a delicate...
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Spirits
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To create this extraordinary blend, Crown Royal™ Whiskies are hand selected and infused with the rich flavor of...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $27.35 $28.79
To create this extraordinary blend, Crown Royal™ Whiskies are hand selected and infused with the rich flavor of...
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The Florio Vecchioflorio Marsala Superiore Dry appears amber-colored with gold highlights in the glass. The nose...
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375ml
Bottle: $11.45 $12.05
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Warm and round with an elegant background of dried fruit and raisins.
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750ml
Bottle: $15.49
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Warm and round with an elegant background of dried fruit and raisins.
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $32.15 $33.84
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Caramel apple, butterscotch, peanut brittle, dried flowers, and vanilla bean are the prominent qualities in the...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $65.66 $69.12
A complex nose with citrus fruits, hints of sultanas, barrel tones, mild vanilla, butterscotch, and manuka honey. The...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $58.80
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Deep amber color. Aromas of creme brulee, coconut macaroon, and spiced chocolate nuts with a supple, dry-yet-fruity...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $32.09 $33.78
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Ultra smooth finish, light touch of spice with tropical fruit notes of sweet, caramelized apples.
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375ml
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375ml
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Amazing depth of colour and outstanding red berry flavours, particularly strawberry, lend this red Icewine to pair...
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This is a glorious icewine where acidity and sugar are in perfect harmony. The candied orange peel, ginger, straw and...
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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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375ml
Bottle: $58.90 $60.00
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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: $21.79 $22.94
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Delicate nose of vanilla bean, white flower, nougat, and toffee. Fruit-forward on the palate with apricot, peach,...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $45.36 $47.75
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Bottle: $33.40 $35.16
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Canadian Whiskey Ice Wine Marsala Sherry

Marsala is a well known fortified wine from Italy’s largest island, Sicily. A largely misunderstood and undervalued fortified wine, it is most commonly associated with its sweet variety - usually used as a cooking wine - although the finest dry Masalas are able to stand up to more revered, similar wines such as Sherry and Madeira. Marsala has been made in Sicily since the mid 18th century, and it grew wildly popular around Europe as sailors introduced it to port towns across the continent. Marsala wine has a beautiful set of flavors, most typically including apricot, tamarind, vanilla and tobacco, making it a delightfully intense treat when served as a sipping wine.



Marsala wine comes in several different varieties, and most of them are a world away from the sweet wines used in sauces and chicken dishes. Amber, golden and ruby versions of Masala are produced, from a range of different native grape varietals, and many of the finest are aged for over ten years to achieve a fascinating set of complex flavors and a remarkably smooth finish. It is usually made from the Grillo, Inzolia, Damaschino and Catarratto white grapes, although the ruby Masala wines uses typical Sicilian red varietals such as Nero d’Avola and Calabrese, among others.

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.