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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $37.16 $39.12
6 bottles: $28.80
Especially recommended for sweetening cocktails made with dark spirits, this liqueur is made with Cognac, Mandarin...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $217.96
12 bottles: $136.80
The wonderful bouquet offers scents of walnuts, dried flowers, dried pears and white raisins. Palate entry is...
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Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $23.79 $25.04
12 bottles: $18.43
Stewed sweet plum, baked raisin, pie crust, and vanillin lead elegant nose of this refined Cognac. The palate has...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $52.90 $55.68
12 bottles: $33.73
Stewed sweet plum, baked raisin, pie crust, and vanillin lead elegant nose of this refined Cognac. The palate has...
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Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $30.42
12 bottles: $25.32
Excellent, Highly Recommended (Tried & True) - 2020 ULTIMATE SPIRITS CHALLENGE
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $45.21 $51.67
Excellent, Highly Recommended (Tried & True) - 2020 ULTIMATE SPIRITS CHALLENGE
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $262.54
12 bottles: $231.08
The opening whiffs find scents of pears, grapes, and mature oily, buttery, aromas; in the second sniffing round the...
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $102.60 $108.00
Martingale is fresh, fragrant, and refined; offering an exquisite balance of complexity and smoothness. True to...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $43.89 $46.79
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $48.94 $51.59
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.25
12 bottles: $17.89
A sharp, fresh nose features astringent fruit, new pencils, clean earth and a refined florality that more than holds...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $35.52
6 bottles: $34.81
COLOR: Dark red purple hues. NOSE: Balsamic notes, intense aromas and spicy finish. FLAVOR: Long finish, sapid.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.93 $19.60
6 bottles: $17.57
The DOC Cannonau di Sardegna has an intense ruby red color. The mouthfeel is fresh, with a good structure and dense,...
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $67.94
The aroma of this 7-year-old cognac reveals scents of ripe apricot, dried fig, cedar-wood, and vanilla, with a trace...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.87
12 bottles: $19.47
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $63.16 $66.48
6 bottles: $60.00
Freshly baked spice cake, preserved stone fruits and vanilla are all integrated aromatically. The texture is velvety,...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $49.68
6 bottles: $40.80
Luscious aromas of grapes, apricots, and fruit tarts are sumptuous. Effortlessly silky in the mouth, the fruitiness...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $44.09 $50.39
Light, crisp and mixable if so desired, this brandy is scented with aromas of golden raisin and honey. On the palate,...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $31.68
6 bottles: $25.20
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $90.52 $95.28
6 bottles: $88.80
Like walking into a cigar smoke-filled library, the nose is rife with exotic woods, spices, and a touch of dried fig....
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Grenache Cognac Ice Wine Pecorino

The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.


For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.

For over three hundred years, Cognac has enjoyed its reputation as the king of brandies. Indeed, it is widely regarded as the finest drink to be distilled from grapes to be found anywhere in the world, and it is a testament to its producers and the master craftsmen who make it that this reputation has never faltered, and remains as strong as ever to this day.

Cognac is produced solely in the beautiful towns of Cognac and Jarnac, found about fifty miles north of Bordeaux, on the west coast of France. Here, around six thousand grape growers work exclusively in the production of white wine, used for the Cognac distilleries which are scattered throughout the region. The wines are made primarily from the Ugni Blanc or Trebbiano grape - one of the most commonly planted grape varietals in the world - which benefit from the cool, coastal climate and mineral rich soils which are found there. The wines themselves wouldn’t be suitable for drinking in themselves, as they are high in acid and low in alcohol, but this makes them ideal for distillation, and they can impart their wonderful, complex, rich flavors to the brandy.

Cognac varies quite significantly from bottle to bottle, depending on how long it has been aged for, and which appellation it comes from. The Cognac region is split into six separate Crus, all with their own distinctive characteristics, and the spirit can be aged from two years (VS) to six (Hors d’Age and Napoleon) and longer.