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Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.83 $29.89
94–96. Barrel Sample. This fine estate has produced a powerful, rich wine that has fine potential. Solid,...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $59.59
Ripe black fruits shine through this balanced wine, showing strongly against a backdrop of rich, generous tannins....
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95
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.89
Lively, with aromatic pomegranate, rooibos tea and savory notes forming the core, picking up currant coulis and iron...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.88 $17.71
91-92 A medium-bodied red with plum and berry. Soft and refined with nice, ripe and creamy tannins. Very polished.
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $47.89 $49.00
12 bottles: $43.75
This delivers a stylish impression from the get-go with a really nicely focused dark berry nose and hints of fresh...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $49.94
This structured wine is firm, with dark tannins that promise aging. The fruit hints at delicious black currant...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.94
A juicy red with plum and berry character, as well as dried chocolate. It’s full-bodied and chewy with a long,...
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93
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.94
A slightly richer style of Corbin than we have seen in some recent vintages but it is entirely successful. Plum and...
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93
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $149.99
Quite the bottle here! Spices, such as nutmeg and cinnamon, as well as dried meat and plums with cedar and...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.94
Another killer wine in the vintage is the 2020 Château Côte De Baleau, which comes from a cooler, north-facing...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $73.25 $78.76
Complex aromas of blackcurrant, black olive, clove, oyster shell, pencil lead and tobacco. It’s full-bodied with...
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Sale
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $62.80 $63.48
93-95 Barrel Sample. This rich and juicy wine is full of black fruits. The tannins are ripe and integrated into the...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.80
12 bottles: $28.22
This wine comes from an estate in the western end of the Margaux appellation. The rich tannins and structure of the...
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94
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91
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.94
12 bottles: $29.34
This fine estate at the western end of the Margaux appellation has produced a smooth ripe wine. Black fruits, wood...
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94
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $66.85 $71.88
Fresh currants and raspberries pop out of the glass, together with oranges and cedar. Such purity of fruit in the...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.08
The 2016 Château de Fonbel from the team at Ausone is a brilliant Saint-Emilion in 2016. Tons of black raspberry and...
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92
WA
91
Sale
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.63 $27.00
The 2020 Château De Fonbel is based on 65% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Cabernet Franc and...
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93
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92
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.84
12 bottles: $14.54
Soft and velvety in texture, this wine is full of ripe fruit. Cushioned by the texture, the tannins are dense enough...
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91
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $10.94
Sweet berry and floral aromas follow through to a medium body with nicely integrated tannins and a deliciously juicy...
JS
91
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $9.70 $10.43
Owned by the Aubert family, this estate has produced a well-balanced wine. Tannins and spice lie easily with the...
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Pinot Gris Red Bordeaux Viura Rapid Ship

The Pinot Grigio or Pinot Gris grape varietal is now one of the most widely grown vines in the world, due to the surge in popularity of Pinot Grigio wines over the past twenty years or so. These grayish-blue fruits, which hang in their distinctively conical bunches, are responsible for a very broad range of wines famous for their variety of color tones and flavors Pinot Grigio varietal grapes are highly influenced by terroir, climate and particularly the skill and expertise of the vintners who process them. As such, there are full bodied, amber colored wines made from this grape, and there are equally delicious yet far leaner, paler, lighter bodied and crisp white wines made from the same species in other parts of the world.

There are few regions in the world with stricter regulations in regards to wine production and grape varietals than those found in Bordeaux, France. Here, in the home of the world's finest wines, the type and quality of grapes used is of utmost importance, and the legendary wineries which work on the banks of the Gironde river have mastered the careful art of juice blending to find the perfect balance for their produce. Whilst there are six 'official' Bordeaux grapes, the two key varietals for almost every fine Bordeaux wine are Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and with good reason. Whilst Cabernet Sauvignon grapes are renowned for their acidity and astringency, strong fruit and spice flavors and full body, Merlot grapes are notably rounded, soft, fleshy and lighter on tannin. The combination of these two varietals, along with a small percentage of (commonly) Petit Verdot or Cabernet Franc, is the perfect balancing act – the two grape varietals cancel out each others weaker points, and accentuate all that is good about the other.