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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $26.34
Bright straw yellow in color with gentle and persistent foam. An extraordinarily fresh bouquet with delicate notes of...
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750ml
Bottle: $22.95
12 bottles: $22.49
This wine is made from 50-year old vines. Grapes were destemmed and fermented dry on the skins with native yeasts....
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $35.94
A perfect introduction to Sauternes, this has very nice dried-papaya and mango character, creamy richness and...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $88.88
12 bottles: $87.10
Lemon, honey, mineral and light spice. Very attractive aromas. Full-bodied, with fresh acidity and a long finish...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $93.00
12 bottles: $87.78
Beautiful aromas of orange zest are followed by gingerbread, caramel and crème brûlée flavors. This is a...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $113.40
12 bottles: $111.13
Tasted single blind against its peers. This has a very well -defined nose of dried pineapple, quince and vanilla pod...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $54.94
Pale gold, the 2009 Climens offers up a fabulously fragrant nose of green tea, chamomile, powdered ginger, lemon...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $97.20
12 bottles: $91.20
Pale gold, the 2009 Climens offers up a fabulously fragrant nose of green tea, chamomile, powdered ginger, lemon...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $49.90
12 bottles: $48.90
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750ml
Bottle: $59.94
6 bottles: $58.74
The 2010 Coutet has quite an intense bouquet with linseed oil and wax resin infusing the dried honey aromas, then...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $432.18 $480.20
Served from an ex-chateau bottle. The 1995 Chateau d’Yquem is moving into its secondary aroma phase. A deep golden...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $500.60
12 bottles: $490.59
Pale gold. Knockout aromas of creme brulee, coconut, vanilla bean, honey and orange peel. Lush and seductively silky...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $470.88 $523.20
Things were more difficult in Sauternes than in the rest of Bordeaux in the 2000 vintage, with a brilliant first...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $436.68 $485.20
A massive Yquem, this has a dense palate that is almost chewy like a red. Full and very sweet, with notes of dried...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $287.73 $319.70
This isn't sweet, but just so wonderfully rich. It's the concentration of botrytis that makes the wine. The texture...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $427.95 $475.50
This isn't sweet, but just so wonderfully rich. It's the concentration of botrytis that makes the wine. The texture...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $244.83 $253.50
12 bottles: $239.40
Barrel sample. This is the rich wine of the vintage. With its intense fruit, piles of spice, but excellent balance,...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $390.15 $433.50
Barrel sample. This is the rich wine of the vintage. With its intense fruit, piles of spice, but excellent balance,...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $244.95 $252.00
Befitting a glorious Sauternes vintage, the 2007 Yquem stood out in this tasting like a beacon. Sandrine Garbay notes...
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Melon de Bourgogne Muscat Semillon/sauvignon Blanc Welschriesling 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.

One of the most widely grown and easily recognized wine grape varietals in the world is the Muscat, an ancient grape with an exceptional amount of versatility. For centuries, Muscat varietal grapes have been used all over Europe for the production of wonderfully fruity wines of many different shades and colors, which, with their strong 'grapey' flavor have come to be known as a quintessential fine wine grape. Their relatively high acidity also means they are ideal for the production of sparkling wines, and the fizzy Muscat wines of Italy are widely agreed to be amongst the best in the world. In more recent years, New World countries have shown a huge amount of flair when it comes to the Muscat grape, and have had plenty of success in allowing its natural and vibrant character to come through in the bottle.