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While this Champagne from Le Mesnil-sur-Oger is still young, showing a crisp, bone-dry character alongside tight...
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Aromatic pastry dough, creme de cassis, apple blossom and graphite notes are well-meshed in this elegant Champagne....
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From grand and premier cru vineyards, this Champagne comes from a good but not great vintage. That explains its...
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•100% Nebbiolo from the Mombeltramo cru vineyard. •280 meters above sea level. •Calcareous clay stratified with...
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• 100% Nebbiolo. • Malvira’s top red from their old vines in the Trinita cru of Roero. • Soil rich with...
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• 100% Nebbiolo from the Renesio vineyard. • Calcareous clay soil. • Harvested in October. • Fermentation and...
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750ml
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This polished and structured Barolo presents rich fruit and floral scents of black cherry, plum and rose. The dark...
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It was a must for Pommery not to miss out on one of the greatest vintages of champagne. One single term to...
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The 2009 Finca Bella Vista was sourced from a vineyard planted in 1910 giving a miserly yield of 0.75 tons per acre....
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This producer has made an outstanding Barolo 2009—no easy feat in this vintage. This bottling is made from top...
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An elegant rose Champagne that seamlessly knits juicy acidity and fine-grained texture with a subtle, smoke-laced...
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A vivid Champagne, with a fine mouse acting as a creamy swath around well-honed acidity, which defines this wine and...
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Catena Zapata Nicasia Vineyard Malbec is a dark violet Malbec. Ripe black-and-red currant, raspberries and an elegant...
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Last in the lineup is the 2009 Barolo Sori Ginestra that incorporates many of the high points of the two wines...
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Champagne Blend Malbec Nebbiolo 2009

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.

The purple Malbec variety grapes which now grow all over the Old and New Worlds had their origins in France, where they are one of the few grape varieties allowed to be used in the highly esteemed blended wines of Bordeaux. However, it is perhaps the New World Malbec wines which have attracted the most attention in recent years, as they thrive in hot southern climates in ways they cannot in their native country, where the damp conditions leave them highly vulnerable to rot. Malbec grapes are renowned for their high tannin content, resulting in full-bodied red wines packed with ripe, plummy flavors and held in their characteristically dark, garnet colored liquid. In many countries, Malbec is still used primarily as a varietal for blending, as it adds a great level of richness and density to other, lighter and thinner varietals. However, single variety Malbec wines have been greatly on the rise in recent years, with some fantastic results and big, juicy flavors marking them out as a great wine for matching with a wide range of foods.

The Nebbiolo grape varietal is widely understood to be the fruit responsible for Italy's finest aged wines. However, its popularity and reliability as a grape which gives out outstanding flavors and aromas has led it to be planted in many countries around the world, with much success. These purple grapes are distinguishable by the fact that they take on a milky dust as they begin to reach maturity, leading many to claim that this is the reason for their unusual name, which means 'fog' in Italian. Nebbiolo grapes produce wines which have a wide range of beautiful and fascinating flavors, the most common of which are rich, dark and complex, such as violet, truffle, tobacco and prunes. They are generally aged for many years to balance out their characteristics, as their natural tannin levels tend to be very high.