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1.5Ltr - Case of 6
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$120.54
The 2020 Barbaresco is gorgeous. Bright and focused, with terrific depth, the 2020 has a lot to recommend it. Red...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$51.21
The 2020 Barbaresco is gorgeous. Bright and focused, with terrific depth, the 2020 has a lot to recommend it. Red...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$52.82
Intense garnet red in color with notes of blackberry, black cherry, plum and overtones of rose and violet petals and...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$153.95
The 2019 Barbaresco Maria Adelaide is dense and quite powerful, but with all the drive that characterizes the Bruno...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$146.74
Opens up to intoxicating floral notes of pot pourri with dried cherry, savoury fruit and the freshness of redcurrant....
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$216.00
The bouquet opens up to candied fruit, lemon curd, dried apricot and pressed rose. Fresh floral notes complement...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$31.30
The 2021 Langhe Nebbiolo Fralù is a tasty, entry-level offering to drink now and over the next handful of years....
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$30.87
Bright ruby red in color. Notes of intense raspberry and black cherry on the nose and palate. A well-balanced wine...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$62.40
The Cannubi "San Lorenzo" Barolo presents exquisite aromas and flavors of ripe, dark cherries, minerals, rose petals,...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$48.00
The "Terlo Gold Label" Barolo is sourced from the Camerano family's, perfectly exposed, "Terlo" Vineyard, the oldest...
750ml
Bottle:
$22.94
12 bottles:
$22.48
Agamium is Latin for Ghemme, wine region already known during the Roman era and even before that, during the Celtic era.
750ml
Bottle:
$40.00
The 2013 Ghemme Anno Primo shows just how well these wines age. At nearly ten years of age it is just starting to...
750ml
Bottle:
$45.00
12 bottles:
$44.10
The 2016 Ghemme Anno Primo is a very pretty and expressive wine from Cantalupo. Sweet dried cherry, spice, mint,...
750ml
Bottle:
$54.84
12 bottles:
$53.74
The 2017 Ghemme Collis Breclemae handled the rigors of the year better than some of the other wines in the range. It...
750ml
Bottle:
$19.93
12 bottles:
$19.53
Aromas of forest berry, blue flower and underbrush follow through to the linear, savory palate along with juicy...
Melon de Bourgogne Nebbiolo Mencia Sherry
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.
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.
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.