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Red
750ml
Bottle: $47.16 $52.40
Colour: Lively, deep ruby-red; nature's gift. Perfume: Complex scent of ripe red fruit (mainly black cherry), spices,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $31.16 $32.80
The aromas of blue fruits, such as raspberries, with subtle cloves and bark follow through to a palate of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.94
12 bottles: $29.34
• 100% Carignan. • Practicing Organic. • Poor Ranch Vyd (mult-generational family owned on benchland outside...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.80
12 bottles: $22.34
The 2022 Frappato impresses with its soaring aromatics, blending violet pastille with sweet smoke and crushed...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.80
12 bottles: $22.34
100% Frappato.
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750ml
Bottle: $45.00
• 100% Palomino. • From a less-than-one-hectare parcel of 80-year-old vines planted in slate at high altitude....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.94
6 bottles: $29.34
Colour: Deep, almost solid ruby red. Nose: Intense fruity notes of blackberry, blueberry, vanilla, myrtle, leather...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.88 $24.08
6 bottles: $18.41
From the Sicilian dialect, “frappatu” indicates the fruit fragrance that unequivocally defines the wine bouquet...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $44.80
6 bottles: $44.00
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.93 $26.40
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $18.13
Big raspberry and plum aromas on the nose as well as a hint of eucalyptus and liquorice. The wine is rich and mouth...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $16.85
Roasted coffee and liquorice on the nose with some blackberry notes and a light smokiness showing the age of the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.93
12 bottles: $13.65
All old vine Carignan, the 2019 Côtes Catalanes Tessellae from Jean-Marc Lafage offers a beautifully pure nose of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.39
12 bottles: $21.94
As is the case with the Nero d’Avola variety, Frappato also demonstrates Sicily’s full winemaking potential, able...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $24.44
Bright ruby red in color with fresh mineral notes followed by fragrances of marasca and black cherries with notes of...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $68.50
Rich and powerful with expressions of ripe cherries, dark chocolate and spices. This full bodied wine is supported by...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.94
12 bottles: $33.26
Aroma : Black cherry, sarsaparilla, cacao. Flavor : Salted plum, black raspberry, cola.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.94
12 bottles: $18.56
The 2022 Palomino El Muelle de Olaso is sourced from the renowned El Corregidor Estate in Jerez. It underwent 80%...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $23.94 $26.40
The NV Moscatel Superior Emilin, produced from Moscatel grapes sourced from Las Cruces vineyard in Chipiona,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.94
12 bottles: $33.26
Soft tannin and stimulating acidity rise to meet this deeply fruited, social wine. Carignan from this beloved site...
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Carignan Frappato Mencia Sherry

Carignan is an ancient blue-skinned grape varietal, thought to be indigenous to the Aragon region of Spain. However, today it is most commonly associated with the fine wines of southern France, and has been grown in many countries around the world which have the warm and dry conditions it requires to thrive. Carignan is recognized as being quite a sensitive vine, highly susceptible to all kinds of rot and mildew, although producing excellent results when given the right conditions and handled correctly. Its high tannin levels and acidity make the Carignan grapes very astringent, and as such, they are often used as a blending grape to give body to other, lesser bodied varietals. Despite this, with careful treatment, Carignan can produce superb single varietal wines packed full of character and unique attributes.

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.