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750ml
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$28.70
12 bottles:
$27.27
Well structured, yet soft, elegant traditionally styled Juliénas, with delicious flavors of herb, spice and lovely...
750ml
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$28.70
12 bottles:
$27.27
Well structured, yet soft, elegant traditionally styled Juliénas, with delicious flavors of herb, spice and lovely...
750ml
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$28.80
12 bottles:
$28.22
Well structured, yet soft, elegant traditionally styled Juliénas, with delicious flavors of herb, spice and lovely...
750ml
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$26.90
12 bottles:
$26.36
Enticing nose of red fruit with some wild strawberry character. Medium-bodied, juicy and silky, this has a spot-on...
1.5Ltr
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$89.11
6 bottles:
$87.33
Bright and vivid with a linear palate of black cherries, plums and orange peel. It’s tight and focused with a...
750ml
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$59.90
6 bottles:
$58.70
The beautifully integrated oak gives this concentrated Cotes de Brouilly an extra level of intensity and structure,...
750ml
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$21.10
12 bottles:
$20.68
Deep ruby in color, this wine offers a complex nose, minerally and fruity. It mingles aromas of ripe raspberry, black...
750ml
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$18.89
$20.80
Subtle aromas of fresh fruit and of white flowers. Beautiful freshness and balance between roundness and finesse in...
750ml - Case of 12
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$20.40
Notes of rich red fruit combine with a long, satisfying finish to make this wine an excellent pairing with poultry...
750ml
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$21.60
12 bottles:
$20.52
This bright, deep red has a varietal aroma of rose petal and ripe strawberries joined by flavors of Maraschino...
750ml
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$20.80
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$20.38
750ml
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$17.49
12 bottles:
$17.14
Marc-Antonin describes this wine as “linear with a straight structure.” Northwest-facing vines bring tension to...
750ml
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$13.94
$14.73
Black raspberry and cherry scents are accented by cracked pepper and fennel. Juicy and focused on the palate,...
750ml
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$41.94
12 bottles:
$41.10
750ml
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$35.90
12 bottles:
$35.18
90-92 The 2022 Fleurie Clos de la Grand' Cour, Which comes from younger vines around the Domaine, has a more backward...
750ml
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$13.99
Offering up aromas of sweet red berries, orange oil, spices and vine smoke, the 2021 Beaujolais-Villages Le Perréon...
750ml
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$13.94
$15.00
An excellent Beaujolais-village with so much black cherry fruit, but also the brightness and liveliness we look for...
Gamay Grenache Saumur Blanc Wine
The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.
The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.
The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.
For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.