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Red
750ml
Bottle: $31.45
12 bottles: $30.82
FOOD PAIRING | Matches very well with bobotie, game and curries, spare ribs and pepper steak, or try snoek and grape...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $57.94
6 bottles: $56.78
Concentrated aromas of black cherries, Christmas cake, wild strawberries, plums and cinnamon spice. The nose has that...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.95
12 bottles: $22.49
The 2022 Nero d'Avola is dark and woodsy in the glass, with dried blueberries and exotic spices lifted by sage hints....
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White
750ml
Bottle: $40.91
6 bottles: $40.09
COLOR: Pale straw yellow with green reflections. NOSE: Rich and intense bouquet on the nose, with complex fragrances...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $63.12
3 bottles: $62.40
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $79.93
6 bottles: $78.33
The 2019 Sicilia Mille e Una Notte is a blend of Nero d'Avola, Petit Verdot, Syrah and other complementary grapes....
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White
750ml
Bottle: $49.94 $75.94
Pretty, perfumed nose of white lavender, honeysuckle, peaches, orange blossom, white pears, lemon pith and blanched...
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375ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $41.31
This is made by drying the grapes, just like Vin Santo but with torontel. Mango dessert, dried papaya, sticky rice,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $41.88 $44.08
6 bottles: $40.00
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.93
12 bottles: $22.47
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $39.81
Creamy oak gives this a rather hedonistic feel to the blackberries with walnuts and some new leather. A hint of figs....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.94
12 bottles: $39.14
A rich and spicy pinotage that shows notes of cedar, spice box, cumin, vanilla and chocolate cherries. Full-bodied,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
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White
750ml
Bottle: $26.94
12 bottles: $26.40
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $27.87
A pale straw yellow color, with an immediate nose of white blossoms, chamomile, ripe peach and citrus fruit. On the...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $39.94
12 bottles: $39.14
Wild mint and lime leaf jump from this aromatic amphora-aged Torrontes. The palate shows more lemon zest and zingy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.50
12 bottles: $21.07
We have been producing our Pinotage from this vineyard for 18 years. It recently changed ownership and has been...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $37.45
12 bottles: $36.70
This is one of the bottles that symbolizes the Sicilian Wine Renaissance that started a few decades ago. The Morgante...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $52.00
A very spicy fruity wine, brilliant and clear, perfumed with carob, bergamot and orange peel. The compact ripe fruit...
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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.

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.

Pinotage is the signature grape varietal of South Africa, and is the most widely grown grape in the country, as well as being common in several other countries around the world. It is a viticultural cross of two fine grape varietals, the Pinot Noir and the Cinsaut (known as Hermitage in South Africa, hence the portmanteau name), and is notable for the fact that it produces excellent and flavorful wines of a deep red color The flavors most commonly associated with Pinotage wines are generally smoky in nature, with notes ranging from dark bramble fruits, to plum, mulberry and earthy characteristics. However, it often also includes quite tropical flavors of stewed banana. The Pinotage varietal is a versatile one, and is often used for producing fortified and sparkling wines, as well as the more common still red wines.