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750ml
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Fresh and fragrant with orange blossom, apricot, and peach aromas. A well-balanced, sweet, bubbly wine that is full...
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187ml
Bottle: $6.99
Barefoot Moscato is a sweet, lively white wine with a light, crisp acidity. Tropical aromas of pineapple and orange...
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3.0Ltr
Bottle: $16.99
Barefoot Moscato is a sweet, lively white wine with a light, crisp acidity. Tropical aromas of pineapple and orange...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.95 $22.80
The 2022 Frappato impresses with its soaring aromatics, blending violet pastille with sweet smoke and crushed...
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90
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White
750ml
Bottle: $10.99
Classic Italian traits of upfront fruit flavours of crunchy pear and crisp apple with mineral notes. Finishing with a...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $6.99
Delightful and very easy on the wallet as well. Light-bodied and showing a pale yellow color, this moderate alcohol...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $10.99
Bright golden yellow in color, this wine delivers an assertive bouquet with exotic fruit and spice aromas and a...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $15.50
12 bottles: $14.73
The ‘Poggio’ winemaking team takes great pride in crafting delightful wines of the highest quality. Please enjoy!...
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1.5Ltr
Bottle: $13.99
With delicious notes of apricot, white peach and sage, and a wonderfully refreshing sweetness, it’s a true Italian...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.94 $19.20
This classic Moscato d'Asti makes for an excellence aperitif or dessert wine. Lightly sparkling, it is a pretty pale...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.71 $17.59
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.99
Zingy, rich nose that’s full of yellow apples, white almonds, biscuits and sour dough. Creamy, round and flavorful...
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91
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.95
12 bottles: $14.65
Ripe aromas of sweet peach and orange blossom leap from the glass in this perfectly balanced, refreshing Moscato.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.69 $15.46
Intense nose of toffee, coconut, spicy fruitcake and chocolate; rich and concentrated, well-integrated sweetness,...
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $1199.94
This blended whisky is an ideal sipper, with an enticing crème brûlèe and dried apricot scents. Those notes are...
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93
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $100.70 $106.00
Kaiy? whisky is matured in the finest Japanese Mizunara oak casks. These casks are handmade due to Mizunara oak’s...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $78.17 $82.28
This was aged in Japan's rare Mizunara oak for the entirety of its maturation, which includes three-month ocean...
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91
WKY
90
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $99.75 $105.00
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $41.40
Get back to nature; this is a whisky to savor during a spectacular sunrise. Lychee, edamame, pea shoots, green apple,...
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90
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White
500ml
Bottle: $63.93 $66.00
The 2016 Vin de Constance contains 165g/L of residual sugar. This has a wonderful bouquet with layers of wild honey...
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Frappato Japanese Whiskey Muscat Sherry In-Store or Curbside pickup

Whisky might not be the first thing that springs to mind when we think of Japanese fine produce, but over the past one hundred years, this fascinating and multi-faceted country has diligently forged a unique whisky identity which is growing in popularity, and which is entirely its own.

The story of Japanese whisky begins in 1918, when Masataka Taketsuru was sent to Scotland to undertake a tour of single malt distilleries in the Highlands, and bring home a knowledge of whisky and distillation skills. He returned full of inspiration, helped no doubt by his new Scottish wife, and alongside his friend, Shinjiro Torii, set up what would become a successful whisky industry.

Today, the Japanese whisky industry is spread over a relatively small handful of distilleries, which continue to use Scottish techniques and recipes, but with a hefty dose of distinctly Japanese experimentalism. This is displayed most obviously in the barrelling techniques the Japanese use - to create a distinctly Oriental set of tasting notes, native Japanese oakwood casks are used for ageing, alongside casks taken from plum wine producers, which impart a beautiful set of floral flavors to the whisky.

While some distilleries produce some excellent single malts, the majority of Japanese whiskies are blended, which reveals a unique set of flavors and aromas ranging from honeysuckle and orange blossom, to toffee and acetone.

One of the most widely grown and easily recognized wine grape varietals in the world is the Muscat, an ancient grape with an exceptional amount of versatility. For centuries, Muscat varietal grapes have been used all over Europe for the production of wonderfully fruity wines of many different shades and colors, which, with their strong 'grapey' flavor have come to be known as a quintessential fine wine grape. Their relatively high acidity also means they are ideal for the production of sparkling wines, and the fizzy Muscat wines of Italy are widely agreed to be amongst the best in the world. In more recent years, New World countries have shown a huge amount of flair when it comes to the Muscat grape, and have had plenty of success in allowing its natural and vibrant character to come through in the bottle.

Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.

Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.

Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.