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Deep black red color. Intense complex nose: tobacco, minty, red and black currant aromas and smoky integrated oak...
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Peach, white flowers, and a hint of pineapple all emerge from Chapoutier’s 2020 IGP Pays D'Oc Marius Blanc, a...
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Deep violet red. An intense, pure Carmenère, packed with blueberries and wild berries. Floral hints like violets and...
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This extremely conscientious farm in the Coteaux de L’Aubance, within the Anjou-Villages, is run by the Biotteau...
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Nathalie Larroque and her family live at the farm known as Mas d’Oustry, built in 1498. This blanc "Perlé" is made...
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• 100% Palomino (from several different heritage clones).
• Sourced from 60-plus year-old vines in La Mendoza, a...
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As always, this Carmenère is intense red color with a violet hue. It offers numerous aromas of tremendous intensity....
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A consistent Purple Angel that really delivers the carmenere’s plushness when ripened well. Dark olives,...
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On the nose, it reveals delicate hints of honey and white flowers. In the mouth, it covers the palate bringing lemon...
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The medium gold-hued 2020 Vacqueyras Mineral Blanc is outstanding and has a clean, age-worthy style in its ripe stone...
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Ruby-red in color with a hint of violet. Red-fruit aromas recall strawberries and plums, along with notes of licorice...
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Blackberry, stewed-plum, basil and cigar-box aromas. It’s medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins. Crisp and...
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$144.50
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Grenache Blanc, Viognier, Roussanne, Marsanne.
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Blackcurrants, rose hips, tomato leaves and rosemary stems on the nose. It’s medium-bodied with easy tannins and a...
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Another unsurprising but jawdropping discovery when encountering the Saouma wines: Magis, Mounir’s white...
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Intensely perfumed and vibrant nose of citrus, flowers and an almost salty note. Intensity of flavors and structure,...
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Stand out for its unique ruby red color and aroma of black fruit, in the mouth it is well-balanced and rich in...
Carmenere Sherry Mencia White Rhone Blend
The deep blue colored grapes of the Carmenere varietal have their origins in France, where they are still listed as one of the elite grape varietals allowed by French law for the use in Bordeaux wines, generally regarded to be the finest in the world. However, the use of Carmenere grapes in France has been dwindling for many decades now, and it has been in several New World countries where they have seen their renaissance. Although still mostly used as a blending grape, single variety Carmenere wines are greatly sought after as a result of their deep, complex aromas, stunning blood red color and the fact that the grapes, when processed at optimum ripeness, carry some fascinating flavors, including chocolate, tobacco, and spicy cherry notes.
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.
The Rhone region of France has been producing superb quality white blended wines for centuries, and is a region highly respected and esteemed around the world, with plenty of New World countries keen to emulate the styles and techniques displayed by the historic wineries and skilled vintners of the area. The secret to the Rhone's success when it comes to blended white wines is the careful and expert selection of certain grape varietals, which each lend special features to the blended wine and bring balance and harmony to the bottle. Most commonly, blended white Rhone wines feature no more than two grapes of either the Viognier, Rousanne, Marsanne or Grenache Blanc varietals, and are renowned for their exceptional flavors and highly aromatic, floral character.