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Red
750ml
Bottle: $82.81 $86.40
Piquant hits of shaved peppercorn and clove lend warmth to rich, glossy black plum and mulberry in this penetrating...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $103.14
The 2019 Châteauneuf Du Pape Grand Vin showed consistently (this is the third time I’ve tasted this from barrel),...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.20
12 bottles: $21.28
Delivers a nice saturated feel without being heavy, letting cherry and plum paste notes unfurl slowly, along with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.94 $23.20
12 bottles: $21.50
Raspberry, violet, licorice, peony, black pepper and gingerbread. Greatly textured with prominent saltiness and...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.94
12 bottles: $23.46
Raspberry, violet, licorice, peony, black pepper and gingerbread. Greatly textured with prominent saltiness and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.89 $40.79
Rich and warm in style, with a velvety flow to the mix of violet, plum paste, black currant compote and licorice root...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $68.95
6 bottles: $67.57
Moving to the single vineyard releases, the 2020 Vinsobres Guerin comes from lower down on the hillside and more...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.90 $40.79
Winey and muscular, with cassis and bitter plum reduction notes leading the way, while baker's chocolate, tobacco and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $63.85
6 bottles: $62.57
Lastly, the 2020 Vinsobres Les Côtes has an almost Côte Rôtie-like vibe in its black raspberry, spring flower,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $64.79
6 bottles: $64.00
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $35.89 $36.79
Rich and well-built, this offers up a serious dark core of black currant and plum reduction flavors supported by...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $63.85
6 bottles: $62.57
My favorite in the lineup (although these are all brilliant) is the 2020 Vinsobres Rouanne Et Les Crottes, which...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $64.79
6 bottles: $64.00
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $48.93 $52.79
Delivering a generous cascade of attractive ripe fig and cherry pie flavors, this red is grounded by serious cast...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $59.65
12 bottles: $58.46
Châteauneuf-du-Pape is famously the strongest, most powerful, and longest-lived wine of the southern Rhône. Louis...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $56.80
12 bottles: $55.66
Châteauneuf-du-Pape is famously the strongest, most powerful, and longest-lived wine of the southern Rhône. Louis...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.93 $14.73
Louis Barruol’s family acquired this estate in 1490, though its winemaking origins date back to Gallo-Roman times....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.94 $23.99
12 bottles: $22.48
This seductive red offers a lot to like, with ripe red fruit and toasted aniseed notes showing an invigorating layer...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $47.51 $52.79
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $124.95 $128.80
A showstopper, this is chewy, smoky and broad-shouldered in the best possible way. Reveals layers of blackberry and...
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Cortese Grenache Passito Red Rhone Blend 750ml

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.

The purple skinned grapes of the Grenache varietal have quickly become one of the most widely planted red wine grapes in the world, flourishing in several countries which have the correct conditions in which they can grow to ripeness. They thrive anywhere with a dry, hot climate, such as that found in central Spain and other such arid areas, and produce delightfully light bodied wines full of spicy flavors and notes of dark berries. Their robustness and relative vigor has led them being a favorite grape varietal for wineries all over the world, and whilst it isn't uncommon to see bottles made from this varietal alone, they are also regularly used as a blending grape due to their high sugar content and ability to produce wines containing a relatively high level of alcohol.