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Nutty and intense, like peanut brittle reduced to liquid form—but with less than half the corn syrup. It delivers...
750ml
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$48.94
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$47.96
There's a richness here offsetting the firm structure, but the iodine and roasted walnut notes shine on the finish....
750ml
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$12.99
Mahogany brown color. Toasty, yeasty aromas of raisin, panettone, cocoa powder, and almond meal and fresh baked...
750ml
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$17.01
$17.91
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$13.43
A pale and delicate light dry Sherry that is light in color. Commonly served cold as an aperitif, many consider this...
750ml - Case of 12
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APPEARANCE: Clear, bright purple red.
TASTING NOTE: A quintessential South African Pinotage offering a bounty of...
750ml
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$41.04
$43.20
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$37.62
SUYO No.1 is handcrafted from 100% Quebranta grapes harvested in the Mala Valley. It is distilled to proof in...
750ml
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$41.04
$43.20
12 bottles:
$37.62
RATED BEST PISCO 2022. Clear color. Aromas and flavors of fruity pebbles, candied flowers, mint, sandalwood, juniper...
750ml
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$11.31
$12.57
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$9.51
With a special selection of high-quality, sweet, and smooth dessert wines, Taylor is great for cooking or simply...
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750ml
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$21.94
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$21.50
Aromas of red fruits with flavors of
fragrant cherry, black pepper, and notes of wood. Hints of raspberry and lead...
750ml
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$79.83
6 bottles:
$78.23
Curiously enough, the 1999 Don PX, which has 17% alcohol and 402 grams of sugar, feels lighter and less concentrated...
750ml
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$82.93
$90.00
The NV Tradicion Amontillado VORS, certainly has the more complex and subtle nose of all these VORS and is on average...
750ml
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$71.93
This is a new 2017 bottling of the NV Cream VOS, marked as L 1/17, the first bottling of 2017. This is a VOS with an...
750ml
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$34.94
$36.00
12 bottles:
$34.24
When Bodegas Tradición started out, its original portfolio did not include a Fino. This is therefore a very welcome...
750ml
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$77.88
$80.00
Given the age of the stocks (some more than 45 years old), this wine has amazing fruit presence. While Tradición...
750ml
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$107.94
This young bodega keeps to its name by releasing Sherries of classic maturity. Extraordinarily complex aromas,...
750ml
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$84.00
Supremely thick, with a syrupy feel to the buckwheat, toasted brown bread, warm date and molten chocolate notes. Not...
750ml
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$21.00
$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...
Fumin Pinotage Pisco Sherry 750ml
Pinotage is the signature grape varietal of South Africa, and is the most widely grown grape in the country, as well as being common in several other countries around the world. It is a viticultural cross of two fine grape varietals, the Pinot Noir and the Cinsaut (known as Hermitage in South Africa, hence the portmanteau name), and is notable for the fact that it produces excellent and flavorful wines of a deep red color The flavors most commonly associated with Pinotage wines are generally smoky in nature, with notes ranging from dark bramble fruits, to plum, mulberry and earthy characteristics. However, it often also includes quite tropical flavors of stewed banana. The Pinotage varietal is a versatile one, and is often used for producing fortified and sparkling wines, as well as the more common still red wines.
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.