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The wines recommended here have been selected by a broad range of educated palates, then rated and described by one...
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Salted cracker, liquorice and seaweed nose. Vivid, bracing and vibrant wine, with concentration, poise and great...
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A fabulous Sherry at an incredible price! Palo Cortado combines the best qualities of amontillado (dry, delicate,...
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Resplendent nose of Christmas spices, raisins, figs and tea leaves. Intensely sweet on the palate but very...
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Big, dry, powerful but elegant wine. Very distinct yeasty notes, with layers of caramel, oak and sweet herbs, all...
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This dry Oloroso has a swoon-worthy nose of warm maple frosting and pecan pie. It's fresh on the palate, balancing...
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Tenuous straw-yellow color with greenish reflections. An intense and fine odor with persistent fruity and flowery...
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A pale straw yellow color, with an immediate nose of white blossoms, chamomile, ripe peach and citrus fruit. On the...
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Mayu Pedro Ximenez is a stylish white wine that offers appealing floral and fruit aromas, with flavors balanced by...
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This wine is obtained by smoothly pressing the Cortese grapes grown in the villages of Gavi and Novi Ligure. Gavi is...
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100% Cortese. The perfect white to stock your fridge with when friends and family come over. Beautiful apricot and...
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• Practicing Organic.
• 100% Mondeuse.
• 100% whole cluster on ripe, young vine (3rd leaf).
• All native...
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100% Cortese. The grapes used in this classic example of Gavi grew in the shadow of “Il Forte,” the iconic...
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The NV Antique Amontillado is amber-colored and has a subtle nose of tobacco, some iodine, pollen, beeswax and...
Cortese Mondeuse Mencia Sherry
The Cortese white wine grape varietal has been grown in and around south Piedmont, Italy, for at least five hundred years. Its delicate nature and moderate acidity have made it a favorite with people around the world, and it is most commonly served alongside the excellent seafood and shellfish dishes of the part of Italy it is traditionally grown in. Cortese grapes are easily identifiable by their lime and greengage flavors, and their generally delicate and medium bodied character. Cortese wines are also notable for their freshness and crispness, again, making them an ideal match for seafood. Whilst colder years often produce harsher, more acidic Cortese wines, practices such as allowing malolactic fermentation can solve any such problems and still produce delicious white wines made from this varietal.
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.