×
Case only
Spirits
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $38.40
Opens with aromas of honey, papaya and mango. Layered fla-vors on the palate of white pepper, balsamic, and ample...
12 FREE
White
750ml
Bottle: $169.93
12 bottles: $166.53
Complex and super intense Palo Cortado, loaded with concentration. Salted caramel, toffee, walnut and some tangy...
12 FREE
WA
96
JS
96
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $57.01
6 bottles: $42.86
This luscious cachaça is aged up to two years in barrels made from a rare Brazilian wood called amburana, hence the...
12 FREE
WE
94
Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $64.00
An exceptionally old fino, perhaps the oldest on the market, at about 15 years, from a gentle, gracious family, who...
12 FREE
DC
96
WA
95
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...
12 FREE
WA
90
Sale
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...
12 FREE
WA
91
White
1.0Ltr
Bottle: $20.95
12 bottles: $20.53
Stefan Braunewell makes a drier style Scheurebe “Unser Taglich” – “for everyday use”. He loves the variety,...
12 FREE
White
750ml
Bottle: $26.94
12 bottles: $26.40
100% Melon de Bourgogne. Pépière has vines in a couple of different zones of the cru of Monnières-St.-Fiacre...
12 FREE
White
750ml
Bottle: $27.94
12 bottles: $27.38
30-60 year old vines located north of the Lac de Grandlieu. Vineyards are planted densely with 7,000 vines per hectare.
12 FREE
White
12 FREE
White
500ml
Bottle: $43.64
6 bottles: $36.80
DECANTER WORLD WINE AWARDS 2018 - PLATINUM: Deliciously complex notes of fresh apple, chamomile, lemon and baked...
12 FREE
DC
97
JS
95
White
750ml
Bottle: $16.00
12 bottles: $15.68
Luc and Jerome Choblet are the third generation to make wine at their family estate, in the CĂ´tes de Grandlieu...
12 FREE
White
750ml
Bottle: $34.94
12 bottles: $34.24
12 FREE
White
12 FREE
White
750ml
Bottle: $29.90
12 bottles: $29.30
From a high desert site in the Gabilan Mountains, neighboring Pinnacles State Park. Harvested from a south facing...
12 FREE
White
500ml
Bottle: $39.94
12 FREE
White
500ml
Bottle: $27.94
12 FREE
Sale
White
500ml
Bottle: $31.93 $32.80
This dry Oloroso has a swoon-worthy nose of warm maple frosting and pecan pie. It's fresh on the palate, balancing...
12 FREE
WE
94
W&S
93
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $32.39
6 bottles: $28.79
From the minds of the multi-Grammy nominated dance music superstars SOFI TUKKER comes this organic, forest-friendly...
12 FREE
White
500ml
Bottle: $43.95
6 bottles: $43.07
The NV Antique Amontillado is amber-colored and has a subtle nose of tobacco, some iodine, pollen, beeswax and...
12 FREE
WA
92
WS
91

Cachaca Melon de Bourgogne Mencia Sherry 12 Ship Free Items

One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.


Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing with a wide range of foods.

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.