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Spirits
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Bottle: $95.99 $101.04
6 bottles: $90.36
Truly excellent tequila is something worth searching for, savoring, and celebrating. At 818, we bring you tequila...
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Spirits
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Bottle: $46.16 $48.59
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At Tequileña in the eponymous town of Tequila, Jalisco, home to a range of celebrated tequilas, Master Distiller...
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Spirits
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Bottle: $88.58 $93.24
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Casa Dragones Barrel Blend, 100% Blue Agave Añejo sipping tequila, achieves its distinctive character from being...
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Spirits
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Bottle: $52.10 $54.84
12 bottles: $41.04
Mild, sweet mango and coconut aromas lead into a mouthwateringly tart, fruity palate. Vanilla and coconut take over...
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Spirits
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Bottle: $50.04
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TOP 100 SPIRITS 2020 - The mild aroma of this Tequila shows just a hint of coconut. The palate opens with robust...
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Spirits
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Bottle: $64.44
6 bottles: $58.50
Incredibly smooth, slightly sweet, light oak. Cooked agave, caramelized vanilla, white chocolate.
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Spirits
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Bottle: $94.44
12 bottles: $82.37
A stunning limited-edition añejo. The golden color and caramel scent hint at what’s to come: sweet agave flavor, a...
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Pure grape aromas that remind me of fermenting must but then goes to stems and dried flowers. Full-bodied, medium...
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Spirits
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Bottle: $69.25 $72.90
12 bottles: $67.55
Rated 98 - A heart-melting perfume of cinnamon-dusted rose petals…and fresh agave lead the way. - The Tasting Panel
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Bottle: $74.94
12 bottles: $73.44
Concentrated bouquet of nuts, caramel, tangy citrus fruit and plenty of spicy oak. Rich, complex and dry flavours of...
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Bottle: $118.74
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This offers a dreamy mix of caramelized pear, fig and peach flavors at the core, while caramel, sesame oil and date...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
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Bottle: $32.94
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A savoury nose of salted nuts, with toasty notes, apricot jam and orange citrus. There's great intensity of flavour...
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Bottle: $49.94
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Known for its seemingly unlimited stocks of aged tawnies and white Ports released in small quantities, this firm's...
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Bottle: $75.94
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Harmonious nose with hazelnut and orange marmalade. Beautiful texture on the palate with lovely candied sweetness and...
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Bottle: $117.94
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The NV 40 Year Old White Port was bottled in 2016 with a bar top cork and 109 grams per liter of residual sugar. The...
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Triple distilled and oak rested for a smooth and full-bodied flavor. COLOR: Crystal clear. AROMA: Fresh agave,...
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Port wine is Portugal’s great gift to the world. Coming from the ancient harbour capital city of Porto and the surrounding Douro Valley region, Port wine has been made by Portuguese vintners for at least four hundred years, although viticulture has been continually happening in the area for well over two thousand years. Port is a fortified wine, meaning it is a wine which has been bolstered by the addition of grape brandy. Originally, this was used as a method of preservation, allowing the delicate Portuguese wines to survive the journey by sea to trading partners in the UK and France. However, the wonderful taste and unique character the fortification process lends to the wine soon became massively popular, and before long, this new wine style was a hit all across Europe.


Unlike some other fortified wines, Port is made by adding brandy before the wine itself has completed its fermentation. The result of this is that plenty of the grapes’ natural sweetness is maintained in the barrel, meaning it is exceptionally smooth and rounded on the palate. Port comes in many different styles - Tawny Port wines are prized for their richness and mellow character, Reserve and Late Bottled Ports are full of fruit flavor. Vintage Port is a complex, wonderful thing - capable of standing up to some of the finest wines in the world when it comes to depth of flavor and fascinating features.

Tequila is probably Mexico’s greatest gift to the world of fine spirits, and is also possibly one of the most underestimated and misunderstood drinks in the world. Widely used for shots and slammers, and more often than not associated with parties and hangovers, Tequila is in fact a wonderful drink full of subtleties and expression of terroir, that is highly rewarding for those who look into its finer points.

One of the special things about Tequila is the fact that it is capable of expressing the fine nuances and subtle notes of its raw material, far more so than other, similar spirits. That raw material is, of course, the Blue Agave - not a cactus, as is commonly believed, but rather a succulent quite like a lily, which grows in the deserts of Mexico mainly around the province of Jalisco. The Blue Agave takes a decade to mature, and during those ten years, it takes in many of the features of its surroundings, just like a grapevine would. This is why Tequila varies in flavor and aroma from region to region, from the earthier Tequilas of the lowlands, to the more delicate and floral examples from areas of a higher altitude.

The picking and peeling of the spiky Agave, and the distillation process of Tequila is a complicated one, and one which is carried out with enormous skill by the jimadors and master craftsmen who produce the spirit. Steam cooking of the body of the plant is followed by crushing, then fermentation and distillation completes the process. The end product is categorized according to whether or not it is made with pure (‘puro’) agave, or blended with other sugars, and according to how long the spirit is aged for.