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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.94 $15.83
Sea salt, Brazil nut and dried chamomile notes are racy and filigreed, with a stony edge on the finish. Drink now.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $69.95
6 bottles: $68.55
The NV El Tresillo Amontillado Fino is from the El Tresillo solera (hence the same name as the 1874 Amontillado). It...
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WA
90
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White
750ml
Bottle: $27.94 $31.19
Shows lovely focus and persistence, with a prominent thread of bitter almond that runs from start to finish, while...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $59.93 $64.79
The NV Villapanes Oloroso wears a dark amber-brown robe and has a very intense nose, showing some marmalade, dark...
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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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White
750ml
Bottle: $11.46 $13.00
12 bottles: $11.23
This traditional dessert wine compares favorably to the most famous imported brands of cream sherry - only ours is...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $27.14 $28.57
Toasted pastries, coffee bean and chocolate confections create potent aromas. The flavors open on a savory note,...
UBC
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White
750ml
Bottle: $20.90 $22.80
12 bottles: $19.58
Straw yellow color with green shimmers. Intense aroma, rich with notes of flowers, fruity with hints of citrus. Good...
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Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $25.64 $26.99
12 bottles: $20.97
Made with a blend of sugar cane “from eight different countries” in the Caribbean and South America, the bottle...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $31.56 $33.22
Made with a blend of sugar cane “from eight different countries” in the Caribbean and South America, the bottle...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $47.78 $50.30
6 bottles: $39.76
Copper color. Aromas and flavors of molasses cookies, caramelized lime, toffee, and cherry cola with a slightly...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $47.78 $50.30
6 bottles: $39.76
Copper color. Aromas and flavors of molasses cookies, caramelized lime, toffee, and cherry cola with a slightly...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $17.91
12 bottles: $13.99
Our Lugana Maiolo is made from Turbiana grapes and takes its name from the Cascina Maiolo farm, founded in 1710. The...
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White
375ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $15.80
Straw yellow in color with a greenish tint. Fragrant notes of melon, tangerine and grapefruit with a touch of mint....
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $21.51
Straw yellow in color with a greenish tint. Fragrant notes of melon, tangerine and grapefruit with a touch of mint....
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $26.94
Founded at the end of the 1980s, Ca’ Lojera was one of the first ‘new generation’ wineries of Lugana. Its wines...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $32.24
Slightly reductive. Smoky, with hints of savoury and salty aromas. Lime zest flavours mingled with peaches and fresh...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $14.96 $15.75
12 bottles: $12.40
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $17.80 $18.74
12 bottles: $14.81
Cane Run delivers a superior drinking experience with its aroma of sweet, light brown sugar. It tastes of delicate...
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $32.39 $34.09
6 bottles: $28.81
Made from traditional Jamaican rums infused with natural spices and aged in oak casks, Canerock Jamaican Spiced Rum...

Ice Wine Rum Sherry Trebbiano

It is difficult to categorize rum as a single spirit, because of all the spirits found around the globe, rum is perhaps the one which varies most dramatically from place to place. Clear, white rum - a favorite for cocktail drinkers - is perhaps the most prevalent example found today, but there is a whole world of darker, spiced and molasses-rich rums to explore, thanks to the fascinating history and wide reach this drink has.

Rum came about during the colonial times, when sugar was a huge and world-changing business. The molasses left over from the sugar production industry could easily be distilled into a delicious alcoholic drink, and provided extra income for the sugar traders. Before long, it became a favorite of sailors and transatlantic merchants, and it quickly spread across the Caribbean and Latin America, where it remains highly popular today.

The production of rum is a basic and simple one - you take your molasses, add yeast and water, and then ferment and distil the mixture. However, as is often the case, the devil is in the detail. The variation in yeasts found from place to place, the maturation period, the length of the fermentation and the type of stills and barrels used provide the rainbow-colored variation that gives rum its spectrum of styles and characteristics.

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.

The Trebbiano varietal grape is a white wine grape originally from Italy, but which has been successfully planted and cultivated in several European countries, as well as in many parts of the New World. Although it is widely grown around the world, it remains relatively unknown to wine drinkers, perhaps because it has mostly been used traditionally as a blending varietal, and for the production of fortified wines. However, it is used very well in parts of Tuscany and elsewhere in Italy for single variety wines, where it is prized for its elegant character and beautiful citrus flavors, alongside floral aromas and a great expression of terroir. As such, Trebbiano wines often hold interesting mineral notes, making them fascinating and complex white wines perfect for matching with a wide range of foods.