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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.85 $17.50
12 bottles: $16.63
A super-fresh riesling with lightly spicy edges to the lemon and sliced-pear fruit. There’s green apple on the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94 $17.49
12 bottles: $15.83
Fresh and bright cherry aromas and flavors. Medium body, light tannins and a bright finish. Lemony undertone. Drink now.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.95
12 bottles: $29.35
The 2020 Cerasuolo di Vitoria is peppery and perfumed, with a dusting of autumnal spices giving way to red currants...
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White
3.0Ltr
Bottle: $27.17 $28.60
6 bottles: $18.40
Black Box Riesling wine opens with notes of nectarine and honey with a bright, refreshing finish. This California...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $21.36 $22.48
12 bottles: $17.41
Intensely aromatic, this wine shows typical ripe Riesling characteristics, including honey, apricot, and white...
White
750ml
Bottle: $21.95
12 bottles: $21.51
Auten Vineyard, a gently sloping site on the west side of Cayuga Lake, was first planted to Riesling in 1997, with...
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White
750ml
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12 bottles: $20.53
The Riesling vines were first planted at Barrow Vineyard in 2013, when the Bloomers purchased the hillside site on...
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750ml
Bottle: $21.95
12 bottles: $21.51
Morehouse Road Vineyard, planted in 2001, differs from Auten in its east-west row orientation, and its Lima silt-loam...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.49 $18.41
12 bottles: $13.99
There is almost no other wine that is so defining for German white wine like the Riesling. With its racy acidity and...
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1.5Ltr
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.85 $18.00
While quite young at the moment, the stone fruit, lime and florals flow from nose to palate on this slippery, mostly...
White
750ml
Bottle: $15.94
12 bottles: $15.62
Kerosene, lime, white peach and apple blossom open on this appealingly aromatic Riesling. The palate is mostly dry...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.85 $19.20
Complex nose of crisp pear, yellow apple and fresh herbs. Medium-bodied with quite a dry balance for a wine that...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.50
Deep purple in color with violets and clove on the nose. Round and plush on the palate with plum, black pepper and...
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750ml
Bottle: $26.05
12 bottles: $25.53
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $223.15 $234.89
Delicate vanilla and apricot perfume this Cognac. The palate is more forward, showing mouthwatering butterscotch,...
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White
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $27.93 $29.40
6 bottles: $19.20
Brotherhood’s best selling wine, this beautiful Riesling has delicate floral and lime aromas and full, ripe...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $15.44 $16.25
12 bottles: $12.35
Brotherhood’s best selling wine, this beautiful Riesling has delicate floral and lime aromas and full, ripe...

Cognac Italian Red Blends Riesling

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.

Riesling grapes have been grown in and around central Europe for centuries, and over time, they became the lasting symbol of south Germany's ancient and proud wine culture. Whilst the reputation of German wines abroad has in the past been mixed, the Germans themselves take an enormous amount of pride in their wineries, and Riesling grapes have now spread around the globe, growing anywhere with the correct climate in which they can thrive. Riesling grape varietals generally require much cooler climatic conditions than many other white grapes, and they are generally considered to be a very 'terroir expressive' varietal, meaning that the features and characteristics of the terroir they are grown on comes across in the flavors and aromas in the bottle. It is this important feature which has allowed Riesling wines to be elevated into the category of 'fine' white wines, as the features of the top quality bottles are generally considered to be highly unique and offer much to interest wine enthusiasts.