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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $62.70 $66.00
An enticing nose reveals pronounced peat complemented by seamlessly integrated wood notes. On the palate, the...
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94
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93
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $249.94
Removing the cask heads to expose more wood during toasting, we’ve turned Ardbeg whisky upside down and inside out....
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $109.43 $115.19
Rated 96 - Powerful, muscular, well-textured, and invigorating. Even within the realm of Ardbeg, this one stands out....
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Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $83.99
Bright and crisp aromas of crunchy butter crackers, smoked grains, and campfire are lively and invigorating. The...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $43.04 $49.19
A nose filled with sea spray, sea salt, dried cherry, dried fig, freshly hewn oak, and burnt driftwood. Distinctively...
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96
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94
Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.93
12 bottles: $19.53
Ruby red in color with aromas of wild blackberry and ripe plum. Intense and elegant on the palate with notes of red...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.00
12 bottles: $14.25
Intense aromas of marasca cherry and redcurrant with hints of blackberry jelly. Dynamic and enveloping on the palate...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $61.77 $65.02
6 bottles: $58.25
An impeccably balanced lowland malt, displaying a dazzling spectrum of aromas, from fresh-cut grass to dried cereal...
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95
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92
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $61.60
6 bottles: $50.95
Smooth and light, this single-malt Scotch segues effortlessly from vanilla, butterscotch and coconut sweetness to...
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93
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90
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $84.49 $88.94
6 bottles: $79.10
An assortment of dried fruit interweaves with fresh chopped pine and hazelnut ganache on the nose. A silky, smoky...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $96.89 $101.99
Founded during the ‘whisky boom’ of the late 19th century, Aultmore Distillery has changed hands several times...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.90
Cannonau is a typical grapevine in Sardinia that here in Usini assumes unique organoleptic nuances that are found in...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $62.21 $71.10
Matured in American oak ex-bourbon & double-fired American oak casks, bringing elegant complexity and warmth Natural...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $189.79 $199.78
This late-night expression is rich and autumnal, developed and amplified to unexpected heights, while staying...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $64.14 $67.52
6 bottles: $63.92
Malt-forward on the nose, but with nice, bright aromatics like lemon oil, heather honey, green apple skin, and hints...
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93
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92
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $56.90 $65.03
Soft melodies of warm cereal, almond biscotti, maple honey, backed bramble fruit sing from the glass. The palate is...
WE
96
UBC
96
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $108.29 $113.99
COLOUR: Bronze. NOSE: Baked apple and creamy hazelnut malt with overtones of ginger-spiced apricot and honey. TASTE:...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $190.37 $200.39
A wonderfully complex nose expressing caramel apples, toffee cake, and old cedar, all wrapped up in subtle nuances of...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $71.41
Toffee and cocoa aromas nestle with mild peat on the nose. The palate mingles toffee and dark chocolate with dried...
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96
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $358.79
4 bottles: $355.19
COLOUR: Deep amber. NOSE: Smoked apricot, dark cherry chocolate, hazelnut toffee. PALATE: Baked fruit, toasted oak...
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Grenache Ice Wine Nero D'avola Single Malt Scotch

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.

Italy’s largest island, Sicily, has a wine producing history that can put most other European regions to shame. It was producing quality wines before the days of the Roman empire, and even the Ancient Greeks were not the first to cultivate vines on the island. For as long as anyone knows, the key grape varietal of Sicily has been Nero d’Avola, the beautiful, deep blue skinned grape which produces the region’s characterful, powerful red wines. While in the past, Nero d’Avola was mainly used as a blending grape, due to its deep color and intensely full body, it is today being increasingly celebrated as a single varietal wine grape, and is perfect for those who like their wines boisterous, loud and strong.



Nero d’Avola is grown pretty much everywhere on Sicily, as demand for wines made from this grape have never been higher. Despite its power and body, it is quite a versatile grape - it can be aged in oak barrels, which produces a dense and dark wine which puts its intense characteristics to good use, but it is also often drunk quite young, which allows its jammy, plummy character to come forward. It is also used to make rose wines in some appellations of Sicily, demonstrating a softer side to this otherwise heavy, deeply flavorful grape.