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750ml
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Brimming with lemon zest and white pepper, this is a very expressive wine that has every bit as much freshness as...
750ml
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$17.10
Firm and well structured, with fine concentration for a silky wine. There are yellow apple, nectarine and hominy...
750ml
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Fruity entrée, with flavors of white flowers, apple, green pears, and subtle nuances of herbs. Fine acidity, bright...
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Rich and generous gruner with notes of caramel, apricots and marmalade. Toasted spices, too. It’s full-bodied and...
750ml
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$24.50
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$24.01
Thal is the site of some of the Hiedler family’s first vineyards, which they have been cultivating since 1856. Thal...
750ml
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#98 TOP 100 WINES OF AUSTRIA, 2022. At once ripe and cool, this is an exciting gruner veltliner that combines the...
750ml
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$17.94
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$16.63
A very attractive fruit bouquet yields apple, peach and citrus aromas along with atypical Veltliner spiciness and a...
1.5Ltr
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$60.20
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Appetizing notes of green and yellow pear and even a touch of yellow plum play on the nose of this wine. The palate...
750ml
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$34.93
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$34.23
This has aromas of lemon tea, grapefruit, white beans and hazelnuts. Creamy and full-bodied with excellent density....
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Aromas of banana, nectarine, and spiced melon with a racy, dry-yet-fruity light-to-medium body and a tangy lime and...
750ml - Case of 12
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Attractive pale-yellow hue with green tints, a sign of the wine’s youth. The seductively fresh and fruity nose...
750ml - Case of 12
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$14.25
Attractive pale-yellow hue with green tints, a sign of the wine’s youth. The seductively fresh and fruity nose...
750ml
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$20.94
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$20.52
From Bien Nacido in Santa Maria, this is a crisp, mineral driven wine with captivating brininess. Made for shucking...
750ml - Case of 12
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Veltliner from the Schön vineyards can be quite reclusive in their youth. Its many dimensions need time to open and...
750ml - Case of 12
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Veltliner from the Schön vineyards can be quite reclusive in their youth. Its many dimensions need time to open and...
Grenache Gruner Veltliner Melon de Bourgogne Mencia
The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.
For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.
Gruner Veltliner is a pale skinned white wine grape varietal most closely associated with central European countries such as Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In recent years, it has spread somewhat to several New World countries, where it is becoming gradually more popular and regularly seen in wine stores. One of the main attractions of this grape varietal for winemakers is the fact that it is highly versatile, and can be used for the production of several different wine styles, including young, dry white wines, excellent sparkling wines, and it is also a grape varietal which is well suited for aging Gruner Veltliner has the ability to express much of its terroir, and the best examples are generally those which are full of delightfully mineral-rich flavors alongside the more usual notes of citrus fruits and peach.
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.