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White
750ml
Bottle: $36.48 $38.40
Beautiful lemon, tangerine, honey, green herbs, and white flower notes emerge from the 2018 Carricante Bianco...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $49.94 $54.00
The 2018 Carricante Centennial Mountain Vineyard is exotic, translucent and full of character. Lemon confit, orchard...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $22.40
12 bottles: $21.95
Color: Yellow straw colored. Nose: Floral with notes of grapefruit. Taste: Excellent sapidity.
White
750ml
Bottle: $19.60
12 bottles: $18.62
• 100% Vernaccia fermented with indigenous yeasts. • Only a brief skin contact during the fermentation. •...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $38.50
12 bottles: $37.73
Pignolo is very late harvested and aged over two years in 100% new french oak barrels. It does need years to mellow...
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Spirits
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $45.03
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White
750ml
Bottle: $22.94
12 bottles: $22.48
Pronounced flavors of pears, pineapple, and passion fruit. Bright acidity and chalky textures makes this wine...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $39.94 $43.09
Broadbent's NV Verdelho 10 Year Old is showing very well, offering up an attractive bouquet of cherries, orange rind,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.75
12 bottles: $14.45
Color: Delicate straw yellow tending to a warm golden colour with ageing. Nose: Characteristic bouquet, elegant and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $41.00
6 bottles: $40.18
Citrus fruits and soft gunpowder notes, involved in a pleasant and very mineral volcanic profile, mark the inviting...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $12.44 $13.87
• 100% Vernaccia from 35+ year old vines. • 100-300 mt above the sea level. • Hand-harvested fruit. •...
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $58.27 $61.34
12 bottles: $45.60
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $91.20
12 bottles: $80.94
Fukano Blonde—an all-new, limited expression from the famed distillery—is bottled to showcase the beauty of...
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $72.96 $76.80
12 bottles: $68.40
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $93.48 $98.40
12 bottles: $88.92
Texturally robust and aromatically refined, Fukano’s Sherry Cask whisky feels and tastes downright luxurious....
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $79.80 $84.00
Each individual cask displays Fukano’s signature aromas of ripe fruit and toasted baking spice—think...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $42.63 $44.87
6 bottles: $38.39
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $59.95 $63.11
6 bottles: $57.59
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Carricante Japanese Whiskey Other Italian Reds Verdelho Vernaccia

Whisky might not be the first thing that springs to mind when we think of Japanese fine produce, but over the past one hundred years, this fascinating and multi-faceted country has diligently forged a unique whisky identity which is growing in popularity, and which is entirely its own.

The story of Japanese whisky begins in 1918, when Masataka Taketsuru was sent to Scotland to undertake a tour of single malt distilleries in the Highlands, and bring home a knowledge of whisky and distillation skills. He returned full of inspiration, helped no doubt by his new Scottish wife, and alongside his friend, Shinjiro Torii, set up what would become a successful whisky industry.

Today, the Japanese whisky industry is spread over a relatively small handful of distilleries, which continue to use Scottish techniques and recipes, but with a hefty dose of distinctly Japanese experimentalism. This is displayed most obviously in the barrelling techniques the Japanese use - to create a distinctly Oriental set of tasting notes, native Japanese oakwood casks are used for ageing, alongside casks taken from plum wine producers, which impart a beautiful set of floral flavors to the whisky.

While some distilleries produce some excellent single malts, the majority of Japanese whiskies are blended, which reveals a unique set of flavors and aromas ranging from honeysuckle and orange blossom, to toffee and acetone.