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$107.94
This young bodega keeps to its name by releasing Sherries of classic maturity. Extraordinarily complex aromas,...
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$24.00
The NV Contrabandista is a blend of the style called medium dry that is usually a very commercial category of cheap...
750ml
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$23.04
$25.60
I could have chosen Valdespino’s outstanding Inocente Fino with its consistent excellence. Instead I have chosen...
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$20.80
The rum raisin, date and burnt orange peel notes are nicely melded, with fruitcake and licorice root accents, all...
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$23.04
$25.60
As with many other wines from the José Estévez group, there is a special bottling of Valdespino's flagship NV Fino...
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$25.92
$28.80
Offers layers of macerated date, ganache, warm caraway, buckwheat honey and chocolate-covered orange peel notes, with...
750ml
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$22.95
12 bottles:
$22.49
100% Gamay. Averaging 40 years of age, Valérie's Gamay vines are planted on clay-limestone soils in the heart of the...
750ml
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$13.99
Oxidative notes of dry fruits, freshly split wood, and nuts are dry and savory aromas. A touch of date syrup...
750ml - Case of 6
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$23.40
Bright and pure, with a floral edge amid the mix of lemon peel, salted butter and straw notes. The long finish offers...
750ml - Case of 6
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$44.95
750ml - Case of 6
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750ml - Case of 6
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$45.62
The 2020 Côte de Brouilly Brûlhier has turned out very well, delivering aromas of cherries, blackberries, sweet...
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Chateau Des Jacques Moulin A Vent Le Moulin 2020
750ml - Case of 3
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$55.90
Another highpoint in this year's range is the 2020 Moulin-à-Vent Le Moulin, a deep, concentrated wine evocative of...
Gamay Ribolla Gialla Sherry 750ml
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.
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.