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White
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
Showing straw yellow, Camporengo Garganega releases an appealing, elegantly balanced bouquet composed of floral...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $319.20
A nose like a private library with old books on the shelves, dried lavender and violets on the desk, and sunbeams and...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $36.80
Leuta 1,618 Merlot DOC Cortona comes from a vineyard cultivated in Cortona - Tuscany - IT -. The intrinsic...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.87
A delicate white wine with bright aromas of white flowers, green apples and lemon curd on the nose. Fresh citrus and...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $18.13
A delicate white wine with bright aromas of white flowers, green apples and lemon curd on the nose. Fresh citrus and...
White
750ml
Bottle: $16.66
12 bottles: $16.33
Organoleptic specifications Straw yellow with greenish hues. Nose shows scents of apple, pear and pleasant mineral...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.05
Shows minerally hints of petrol and smoke on the nose that transition to underscore poached apricot, Meyer lemon peel...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.25
This Falanghina has a beautiful, delicate, and floral component on the nose while full and refreshing on the palate....
White
750ml
Bottle: $27.95
12 bottles: $27.39
Tintore di Tramonti and Piedirosso from 3 parcels between 270-600m, planted in pergola, 1 hectare total. Vines age...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.56 $23.50
Grapes are hand-harvested, destemmed, and macerated in open-topped wooden vats for 20 days without refrigeration....
Red
750ml
Bottle: $46.50
6 bottles: $45.57
The powerful Quercegobbe Toscana from Petra comes into the glass with dense crimson. After the first swirl, this red...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.93 $18.34
Brothers Dario, the oenologist and Andrea, the agronomist, are responsible for more than 70ha of proprietary...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.44 $18.34
12 bottles: $17.42
Color: Brilliant straw yellow colour with greenish hints. Perfume: The delicate nose is reminiscent of almond...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $39.95
A different, fuller-weighted brood, boasting ample stone fruits, nutmeg and truffle. Savvy use of oak (tonneaux and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.95
6 bottles: $17.59
This is a fresh and expressive Soave, with classic aromas of white flowers, almond blossoms, marzipan and a touch of...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $137.99
6 bottles: $137.20
A red with focus and precision and beautifully ripe, polished tannins. It’s medium-to full-bodied with...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $59.93
The salubrious flagship, crafted with a cordon cut technique to concentrate the fruit across a meld of three...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $28.95 $29.60
Vibrant and mineral, it's full of lemongrass, wax, seaweed and lemon candy with a peaty depth and hints of noble rot....
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White
750ml
Bottle: $34.93
12 bottles: $34.23
Offers a rich note of petrol on the nose, which underscores the palate's flavors of blood orange, pink grapefruit...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.93
12 bottles: $17.57
Energetic, mid-weighted Soave. Delicious drinking. Prosaic in the best sense, with attractive notes of garden herbs,...
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Falanghina Garganega Merlot Other Italian Reds Italy 750ml

Italy is a fine country for white grape varietals, and white wines have been produced in this ancient country for thousands of years. One of the more popular varietals in the modern age is Garganega, which is currently the 5th most planted white grape across Italy. This grape is most closely associated with the Veneto region of Italy, although it is also grown in Sicily, where it is known as Grecanico Dorato. Garganega is a rigorous, hardy grape, which can grow in huge yields - explaining its popularity in the past. Today, winemakers must be careful to keep yields as low as possible, as this a varietal which can easily lose its distinctive characteristics and fine qualities when grown in bulk.


We know Garganega most commonly from the Soave wines which have been consistently popular over the past few decades. Indeed, the Soave Classico wines which still sell in large quantities across the globe are made from 70%-100% Garganega varietal grapes, and these wines showcase the varietal’s fresh and delicate qualities. The most common flavors present in Garganega wines are delicate, citrus notes, balanced by a hint of almond, and the best examples have remarkable balance and length, with wonderful aromatic notes.

With its dark blue colored fruits and high juice content, Merlot varietal grapes have long been a favorite of wine producers around the globe, with it being found in vineyards across Europe, the Americas and elsewhere in the New World. One of the distinguishing features of Merlot grapes is the fact that they have a relatively low tannin content and an exceptionally soft and fleshy character, meaning they are capable of producing incredibly rounded and mellow wines. This mellowness is balanced with plenty of flavor, however, and has made Merlot grapes the varietal of choice for softening other, more astringent and tannin-heavy wines, often resulting in truly exceptional produce. Merlot is regarded as one of the key 'Bordeaux' varietals for precisely this reason; when combined with the drier Cabernet Sauvignon, it is capable of blending beautifully to produce some of the finest wines available in the world.

There are few countries in the world with a viticultural history as long or as illustrious as that claimed by Italy. Grapes were first being grown and cultivated on Italian soil several thousand years ago by the Greeks and the Pheonicians, who named Italy 'Oenotria' – the land of wines – so impressed were they with the climate and the suitability of the soil for wine production. Of course, it was the rise of the Roman Empire which had the most lasting influence on wine production in Italy, and their influence can still be felt today, as much of the riches of the empire came about through their enthusiasm for producing wines and exporting it to neighbouring countries. Since those times, a vast amount of Italian land has remained primarily for vine cultivation, and thousands of wineries can be found throughout the entire length and breadth of this beautiful country, drenched in Mediterranean sunshine and benefiting from the excellent fertile soils found there. Italy remains very much a 'land of wines', and one could not imagine this country, its landscape and culture, without it.