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This is a delightful wine with tempting flavors of green apples and peaches. Hints of honey and vanilla enhance the...
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187ml
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This is a delightful wine with tempting flavors of green apples and peaches. Hints of honey and vanilla enhance the...
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This is a delightful wine with tempting flavors of green apples and peaches. Hints of honey and vanilla enhance the...
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750ml
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12 bottles: $9.51
This is a delightful wine with tempting flavors of green apples and peaches. Hints of honey and vanilla enhance the...
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1.5Ltr
Bottle: $23.37 $24.60
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Barefoot Buttery Chardonnay is creamy and vibrant, bursting with pineapple aromas and layers of toasty oak that...
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750ml
Bottle: $11.94 $12.57
12 bottles: $9.51
Barefoot Buttery Chardonnay is creamy and vibrant, bursting with pineapple aromas and layers of toasty oak that...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $12.92 $13.87
Subtle, discreet oak spice nicely supports citrus and apple flavors. Hints of flint and mineral notes chime in on the...
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750ml
Bottle: $37.94
Sangiacomo Chardonnay is a beautiful bright gold color with powerful aromatics. Passionfruit and kiwi jump from the...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $87.78 $92.40
Vanilla, amaretto biscuit, and black cherry on the nose precede a spicy palate of caramel, cinnamon, marzipan, and...
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Spirits
750ml
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This Bourbon shows a fantastically complex bouquet combining traditional notes of peanut candy, sweet apple, and...
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95
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Spirits
750ml
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The caramel color sets the stage for notes of slight sweetness akin to toffee, brown sugar, candied nuts and dried...
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93
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $87.78 $92.40
This is a dense, bold whiskey at high proof with bombastic aromas of vanilla custard, grilled pear, smoked paprika,...
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91
White
750ml
Bottle: $17.09
12 bottles: $16.75
White rose petals and ripe citrus fruit open this elegant medium-bodied white wine. Flavors of juicy Bosc pear and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.64 $15.41
12 bottles: $11.52
Straw gold yellow. Fine and elegant nose mixing white fruit aromas (pear, quince) with vanilla notes. Fruit driven on...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $37.62 $39.60
12 bottles: $34.20
Straw gold colour. Perfumed and intense, with white, exotic fruit aromas (pear, pineapple) and nutty notes. Lively...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $46.63 $49.08
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This delicious spirit combines award-winning Beacon Bourbon and organic cold brew Sumatran roast coffee from Trax...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.26 $13.96
12 bottles: $10.46
The wine’s cool lemon and tangerine scents lead into warmer lees and oak flavors, ending on a slow, smoky burn.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $61.27 $68.08
12 bottles: $49.40
Belle Glos Chardonnay from Glasir Holt vineyard boasts a refreshing acidity and a rich mouthfeel with flavors of...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.86 $18.80
6 bottles: $15.84
“Dolce far niente”. In Italian, the sweetness of doing nothing. This unoaked Chardonnay is a bliss to sip, a...
White
750ml
Bottle: $15.08
12 bottles: $14.78
This wine offers a clear golden color with an intense nose of familiar citrus and exotic passion fruit and mango. A...

American Whiskey Chardonnay Nero D'avola Mencia

The United States of America is a country of great cultural diversity, influenced by migrating nations from across the world. As such, its whiskey industry is a fascinating and complex one, which represents the range of regional differences found there.

The Irish were the original pioneers of American whiskey, and when they emigrated in their thousands from the old country, they brought their skills, knowledge and distillation techniques with them, to give them something to remind each other of home in the New World. This is why American whiskey goes by the Irish spelling, with the additional ‘e’, and why many traditional American whiskies closely resemble the original Irish style.

Today, there are several different types of American whiskey, and the styles and production techniques are now set out in US federal law, cementing a set of characteristics and production methods to preserve and protect the industry.

Corn whiskey, which is made from a minimum 80% corn in the mash and aged for a short period, is probably the most historic of the American whiskey styles, but others like rye whiskey, which is made from a minimum of 51% rye and aged in charred barrels, are growing in popularity among a new generation of drinkers looking for something unique, interesting and independently produced. Alongside these styles, we find Tennessee whiskey, which uses maple charcoal for sweeter notes, the softer wheat whiskies, the world-dominating Bourbon whiskies, and others which are peculiar to specific states and regions.

Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.

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.