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Musky apricot pit, peach and spicy vanillin oak on the nose. Densely packed but quite suave and fine-grained in spite...
![Aeris [By Rhys] Bricco Rosso 'Centennial Mountain' 2018 750ml](https://www.saratogawine.com/files/images/cached_thumbs/6b/6b9a515d3613a45bfbd5bbde7b0b84d9.jpg){kind=small}
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The lighter ruby-hued 2018 Bricco Rosso Centennial Mountain Vineyard offers up a pretty, Nebbiolo-like bouquet of...
750ml
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The color of this wine is best described as pale straw with a slight tint of emerald green. The nose opens as a...
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Moving to the four Chardonnays I was able to taste, the 2018 Chardonnay Sonoma Coast reveals a light gold color as...
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$83.20
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The flagship from this great estate is the 2018 Sorella, a Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated blend (8% each of Cabernet...
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
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$91.80
This is a generous, layered white with lots of cooked apples and hints of coconut and vanilla. Full body. Phenolic...
750ml - Case of 6
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This is a generous, layered white with lots of cooked apples and hints of coconut and vanilla. Full body. Phenolic...
750ml
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$78.00
Grand Vin is a wine of finesse and elegance that maintains fresh red and blue fruit flavors while exalting secondary...
750ml
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COLOR: Medium Gold.
NOSE: Pronounced pear and golden yellow apple lined with a floral note of jasmine, apricot, and...
750ml - Case of 12
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Nose of ripe black fruits, violet flowers layered with some spicy touches. On the palate it is bold and lively with...
750ml
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The 2018 Barón de Magaña is a red blend produced with Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah from their oldest...
750ml
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$15.04
A well-balanced, crowd-pleasing red, with a waft of smoky bacon fat winding through flavors of juicy black raspberry...
750ml
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$46.50
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$45.57
Stone fruits, buttered citrus, white currants, and brioche all emerge from the 2018 Chardonnay, a beautiful...
750ml
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The 2018 Sauvignon Blanc Pine Mountain is made of 100% Sauvignon Blanc from a vineyard at 2,850 feet in elevation. It...
750ml
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$120.79
This has a polished nose of black olives, oyster shells, thyme, salted chocolate, graphite, black fruit and cassis....
750ml
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"We don't have anything in mind about what the final blend will be each year," winemaker Andy Erickson said about...
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This too is firmly reduced so be sure to decant it first. Otherwise the round, delicious and lush medium weight...
750ml
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The 2018 vintage wasn’t, in fact, quite as extravagantly warm in Languedoc as it was in other regions; nonetheless...
750ml
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$156.40
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$152.67
The 2010 Chateau Musar is a sweetly fruited, forward, charming effort that’s loaded with sweet dark fruits, saddle...
Chardonnay Red Blend Sauvignon Blanc 1986 2010 2018
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.
The green skinned grapes of the Sauvignon Blanc varietal had their origins in Southern France, where they are still widely grown and used for many of the excellent young and aged white wines the region is famous for. Today, however, they are grown in almost every wine producing country in the world, and are widely revered for their fresh and grassy flavors, full of tropical notes and refreshing, zesty character. Sauvignon Blanc grapes thrive best in moderate climates, and ripen relatively early in the year. This has made them a favorite for many wineries in the New World, where they can still produce healthy and high yields in the earlier part of the summer before the temperatures become too hot. Too much heat has a massively adverse effect on Sauvignon Blanc, as the grapes become dull in their flavor, and the wine produced from them loses all its unique character and high points. As such, Sauvignon Blanc farmers have had a lot of trouble from global warming and climate change, as they are being forced to harvest their crops increasingly earlier in the year when it is cool enough to do so.