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$41.00
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$40.18
Intense ruby red with garnet reflections. Fruity, slightly herbaceous, with distinct raspberry fragrance in youth, in...
750ml
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$469.94
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$460.54
Lush and creamy, this white offers spice-tinged peach, apple tart, vanilla and butterscotch flavors. Builds nicely to...
750ml
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$42.05
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$41.21
From a vineyard that has since been designated as part of the new Petaluma Gap appellation, this wine shows the fog...
750ml
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$31.00
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$30.38
Preserved lemon, orange blossoms, white grapefruit, and struck flint, with saline-like minerality due to strong...
750ml
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$112.00
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$111.20
750ml
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Plums, currants, smoked earth, and roasted herb notes all emerge from the 2015 Merlot, which is plump, rounded, and...
750ml - Case of 6
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$44.95
Green olive and grilled rosemary notes show on the nose of this bright, medium- to full-bodied red, leading to a...
750ml - Case of 12
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$25.38
A distinctive version of Chardonnay, with obvious skin contact, showing delicate tannins and zesty flavors of orange...
750ml - Case of 6
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$40.81
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Ballot Millot Meursault 1er Cru Perrieres 2015
750ml - Case of 12
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$263.95
The 2015 Meursault Les Perrières 1er Cru has a crisp, precise bouquet of Granny Smith apples, crushed stone and a...
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Barone Ricasoli Toscana Merlot Casalferro 2015
750ml - Case of 6
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$57.62
Blackberries, blackcurrants, dark plums, Chinese spices and hints of vanilla. Full body, incredibly structured...
750ml - Case of 6
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$628.07
The 2015 Chevalier-Montrachet La Cabotte Grand Cru offers up a youthful but expressive bouquet of hazelnut, apple,...
750ml - 1 Bottle
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The 2015 Chevalier-Montrachet La Cabotte Grand Cru offers up a youthful but expressive bouquet of hazelnut, apple,...
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
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$238.95
The 2015 Meursault 1er Cru Les Perrieres offers up an attractively pure nose of chamomile, citrus, pomelo and fresh...
750ml - Case of 6
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$107.80
2015 was a textbook vintage and this is a great Cervaro. Citrus, cream and white flowers on the nose lead seamlessly...
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Castello Di Ama Vigna L'apparita 2015
750ml - Case of 6
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$240.49
Ama's 2015 L'Apparita is shaping up to be phenomenal. That is the good news. But readers are going to have to give...
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Catena Zapata Chardonnay White Bones 2015
750ml - Case of 3
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$88.12
Extraordinary quality that rivals many grand cru Chablis. This is an intense, focused Chardonnay sourced from a...
Chardonnay Furmint Merlot Rum 2015
Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.
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.
It is difficult to categorize rum as a single spirit, because of all the spirits found around the globe, rum is perhaps the one which varies most dramatically from place to place. Clear, white rum - a favorite for cocktail drinkers - is perhaps the most prevalent example found today, but there is a whole world of darker, spiced and molasses-rich rums to explore, thanks to the fascinating history and wide reach this drink has.
Rum came about during the colonial times, when sugar was a huge and world-changing business. The molasses left over from the sugar production industry could easily be distilled into a delicious alcoholic drink, and provided extra income for the sugar traders. Before long, it became a favorite of sailors and transatlantic merchants, and it quickly spread across the Caribbean and Latin America, where it remains highly popular today.
The production of rum is a basic and simple one - you take your molasses, add yeast and water, and then ferment and distil the mixture. However, as is often the case, the devil is in the detail. The variation in yeasts found from place to place, the maturation period, the length of the fermentation and the type of stills and barrels used provide the rainbow-colored variation that gives rum its spectrum of styles and characteristics.