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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $22.80 $24.00
12 bottles: $17.10
Baking spices and fresh peat up front, delicate apple with toasted toffee wihth soft spice on finish.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.52 $21.60
This bright, deep red has a varietal aroma of rose petal and ripe strawberries joined by flavors of Maraschino...
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Bottle: $31.50
12 bottles: $30.87
• Practicing Organic. • 100% Trousseau. • Stolpman Estate Vineyard (Ballard Canyon AVA). • Only 3.5 acres...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $127.68 $134.40
6 bottles: $124.80
Fresh aromas suggest red apple slices and hint of vanilla. The supersoft palate rings out with vanilla cookie and...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $59.40
6 bottles: $49.20
A whiff of mealy, floury apples, pear, candied lemon peel, and fruit teas, this is certainly light and fruity,...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $71.20
6 bottles: $67.60
The name says it all: This is a spice-forward blended Scotch for sure. The bold aroma evokes fresh apple and spice,...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $78.20 $82.32
6 bottles: $64.79
An intensely smoky initial bouquet which then becomes creamy, concentrated, citrusy, mash-like, and very malty. At...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $78.20 $82.32
6 bottles: $70.80
Based on a bespoke blend made for the New York City restaurant The Spaniard, this permanent addition to the Compass...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $32.77 $34.50
6 bottles: $28.02
This subtly aromatic blended whisky invokes dried red and yellow fruits atop fresh oatmeal. Lean in the mouth, it is...
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Bottle: $16.25
12 bottles: $14.25
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750ml
Bottle: $15.94
12 bottles: $15.62
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $22.69 $23.88
12 bottles: $19.27
The very first smooth & mellow Whisky of the Cutty Sark family. With its inimitable Whisky taste profile, the iconic...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $40.70 $42.84
6 bottles: $30.46
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $34.94
Possibly one of the best-balanced whiskies around—which is what blending is all about—this honey-hued Scotch...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $53.13 $55.93
6 bottles: $38.76
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $91.21 $96.01
This golden blended Scotch is remarkably complex, showing creamy vanilla, crème brûlée and almond before tapering...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $253.78 $267.14
6 bottles: $240.91
Golden amber color. Aromas of toasted biscuit with raisins, charcoal briquettes, dried apricot, and grilled zucchini...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $34.56 $36.38
6 bottles: $30.47
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $34.56 $36.38
6 bottles: $30.47
Exotic and powerful nose of dried red plum, cherry blossom, butterscotch syrup, dried honey, and golden raisins. On...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $39.16
6 bottles: $30.47
A delicious dram with a sunny disposition, this drums out aromas of butter biscuits, raisins, vanilla sugar, cane...
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Blended Scotch Gamay Sherry Mencia 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.