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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $21.37 $22.49
6 bottles: $15.00
Gekkeikan Nigori is a rough-filtered Junmai-shu. By definition Nigori means 'cloudy' and this style of sake is...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
1.8Ltr
Bottle: $63.27 $66.60
This Junmai Ginjo brings out the gorgeous subtleties of this Yamada Nishiki, with an initial sensation of melon...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $29.64 $31.20
This Junmai Ginjo brings out the gorgeous subtleties of this Yamada Nishiki, with an initial sensation of melon...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $32.83 $36.48
12 bottles: $28.88
The nose reveals a mélange of bramble fruit, red raspberry, black plum and cigar box spice. Medium-plus to...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.11 $15.91
12 bottles: $11.52
Our Petite Sirah is crimson in color with purple hues. Full bodied and rich, this wine boasts fruit-forward aromas...
Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $34.80
12 bottles: $33.06
For his Junmai Daiginjo Niizawa-san has chosen to use heirloom Omachi rice milled to 40% which gives this graceful...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $21.66 $22.80
Slightly fuller and chewier than the Hakurakusei Tokubetsu Junmai, it shares the house style: clean and zippy and...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
1.8Ltr
Bottle: $46.17 $48.60
6 bottles: $45.60
Slightly fuller and chewier than the Hakurakusei Tokubetsu Junmai, it shares the house style: clean and zippy and...
Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $24.23
6 bottles: $19.19
Using selected Japanese Plum, "Ume", Hakutsuru Plum Wine has been brewed with highly developed fermentation skills...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
750ml
Bottle: $18.81 $19.80
Using selected Japanese Plum, "Ume", Hakutsuru Plum Wine has been brewed with highly developed fermentation skills...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
500ml
Bottle: $14.45 $15.21
12 bottles: $12.35
Hakutsuru Plum Wine "SLIM" is produced from selected Japanese Plum, Ume, and using highly developed fermentation...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $26.68 $28.08
6 bottles: $22.40
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $21.74 $22.88
6 bottles: $18.80
This is a sake with a mellow, rich flavor. When enjoying your sake chilled, a sake cup, wine glass, or cocktail glass...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
300ml
Bottle: $13.87
12 bottles: $13.18
Straw color. Aromas of ripe melon, shiso, grapefruit zest, pear, rainwater, elderflower, caraway, and star anise with...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $25.60
Straw color. Aromas of ripe melon, shiso, grapefruit zest, pear, rainwater, elderflower, caraway, and star anise with...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $80.08
6 bottles: $76.00
A luxurious Sake, mouth-filling and full of flavor, yet delicately refined. Enjoy the elegance of refreshing floral...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $30.10 $31.68
6 bottles: $25.20
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Sake/Fruit Wine
180ml - Case of 30
Bottle: $6.63
Being aged after brewing for one month in its fresh state around 41F before bottling, Draft Sake has its refined...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
300ml - Case of 20
Bottle: $8.34
Being aged after brewing for one month in its fresh state around 41F before bottling, Draft Sake has its refined...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $17.56 $18.48
6 bottles: $15.00
Being aged after brewing for one month in its fresh state around 41F before bottling, Draft Sake has its refined...

Petite Sirah Sake Savatiano Tannat

Petite Sirah was first brought from France to America in the 1880s. It later went on to become one of the only grapes to make it through the devastating Phylloxera virus in the 1890s, both World Wars, and the Great Depression. During Prohibition, it was a main ingredient used to make sacramental wines. In fact, through the 1960s it was a major blending grape in a number of the finest wines produced in California.

By itself, a bottle of Petite Sirah usually has no problem making a quick impression on consumers. With a large amount of natural color and tannins, wines made with the grape commonly feature intensive sweet fruit characteristics like fresh raspberry or blackberry jam, black pepper spice, and plenty of backbone or structure.

There are a number of different styles available. Some concentrate on highlighting fresh, fruity flavors; others are bigger, more voluptuous; and it keeps going up the ladder until you reach the powerful, more machismo-style category.

Savatiano is probably Greece's most well known and most widely grown grape varietal, as it is the primary grape used in the production of Retsina, where the fermenting juices of the Savatiano varietal are flavored with pine resin in order to make this distinctive and famous wine. One of the reasons for the wide cultivation of this grape is due to its hardiness, and resistance to drought conditions. In the sun-drenched and dry, rocky Greek landscapes, this makes it an ideal vine to grow for wine-makers who require a strong and bounteous yield each year.

However, there are plenty of examples of Greek white wines which use the Savatiano grape but withhold from the addition the pine resin flavoring, allowing the true characteristics of this varietal to shine through. The result is often very pleasing indeed, with Savatiano grapes generally producing extremely well balanced and rounded white wines, with a juicily fruity flavor. Their aromas can vary quite a lot, with many Savatiano wines bearing the fragrance of citrus fruits, and also occasionally having a strong floral aroma reminiscent of elder and rose. Due to the relatively low acidity of Savatiano grapes, the wines which use them (including Retsina) generally bolster themselves with the addition of smaller quantities of more acidic varieties, such as Assyrtiko or Rhoditis, in order to improve their sometimes weak structure.

Additional Information on Greek Wines


Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?