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750ml
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$22.95
12 bottles:
$22.49
The 2022 Nero d'Avola is dark and woodsy in the glass, with dried blueberries and exotic spices lifted by sage hints....
750ml
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$20.95
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$20.53
• 100% Chasselas.
• 10-20 year old vines.
• Altitude: 425 meters.
• Hand-harvested, slow, cold...
750ml - Case of 6
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$47.63
The 2020 Dézaley Grand Cru Médinette is the recent edition of one of the icon wines of this appellation in the...
750ml - Case of 12
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$44.04
A cuvée made “with the old”, i.e. high on its residues, and bottling without any filtration to alter the virtues...
750ml
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$79.93
6 bottles:
$78.33
The 2019 Sicilia Mille e Una Notte is a blend of Nero d'Avola, Petit Verdot, Syrah and other complementary grapes....
750ml - Case of 12
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$39.81
Creamy oak gives this a rather hedonistic feel to the blackberries with walnuts and some new leather. A hint of figs....
750ml
Bottle:
$37.45
12 bottles:
$36.70
This is one of the bottles that symbolizes the Sicilian Wine Renaissance that started a few decades ago. The Morgante...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$52.00
A very spicy fruity wine, brilliant and clear, perfumed with carob, bergamot and orange peel. The compact ripe fruit...
750ml
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$21.94
12 bottles:
$21.50
From a 1.5-hectare vineyard planted around 30 years ago. The vines are traditionally pruned in alberello, in other...
750ml
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$29.95
12 bottles:
$29.35
Blatterle (the grape name has two t’s) is an old white varietal indigenous to the area which nearly became extinct....
750ml
Bottle:
$39.94
12 bottles:
$39.14
The 2020 Steinkrügle is another fascinating Chasselas from Hanspeter and Edeltraud Ziereisen that comes from...
750ml
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$27.94
12 bottles:
$27.38
The 2020 Gutedel Viviser is another excellent Chasselas from the Ziereisen family. It was basket-pressed and aged in...
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Italy’s largest island, Sicily, has a wine producing history that can put most other European regions to shame. It was producing quality wines before the days of the Roman empire, and even the Ancient Greeks were not the first to cultivate vines on the island. For as long as anyone knows, the key grape varietal of Sicily has been Nero d’Avola, the beautiful, deep blue skinned grape which produces the region’s characterful, powerful red wines. While in the past, Nero d’Avola was mainly used as a blending grape, due to its deep color and intensely full body, it is today being increasingly celebrated as a single varietal wine grape, and is perfect for those who like their wines boisterous, loud and strong.
Nero d’Avola is grown pretty much everywhere on Sicily, as demand for wines made from this grape have never been higher. Despite its power and body, it is quite a versatile grape - it can be aged in oak barrels, which produces a dense and dark wine which puts its intense characteristics to good use, but it is also often drunk quite young, which allows its jammy, plummy character to come forward. It is also used to make rose wines in some appellations of Sicily, demonstrating a softer side to this otherwise heavy, deeply flavorful grape.