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White
750ml
Bottle: $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...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $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...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $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...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $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...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $77.88 $80.00
Given the age of the stocks (some more than 45 years old), this wine has amazing fruit presence. While Tradición...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $107.94
This young bodega keeps to its name by releasing Sherries of classic maturity. Extraordinarily complex aromas,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $84.00
Supremely thick, with a syrupy feel to the buckwheat, toasted brown bread, warm date and molten chocolate notes. Not...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $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...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $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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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.94 $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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White
750ml
Bottle: $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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White
750ml
Bottle: $25.92 $28.80
Offers layers of macerated date, ganache, warm caraway, buckwheat honey and chocolate-covered orange peel notes, with...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $34.95 $36.79
12 bottles: $34.20
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.99
Oxidative notes of dry fruits, freshly split wood, and nuts are dry and savory aromas. A touch of date syrup...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $23.40
Bright and pure, with a floral edge amid the mix of lemon peel, salted butter and straw notes. The long finish offers...
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Case only
Long-term Pre-Arrival
White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $49.94
A Fino that begins its path towards Amontillado, one of those wines that winemakers and connoisseurs have always...

Fumin Pisco Robola Sherry 750ml

In the mountains of Cephalonia, the mineral rich soils assist in the growing of one of the finest of Greece's white grape varietals – the Robola grape. These noble yellowish grapes are notable for the wines they produce, which generally contain summer fruits, peach and citrus aromas, coupled with flavors which extend beyond the usual range of white wines, revealing smoky and mineral notes, and a lengthy, lemony after-taste. These fine characteristics helped the regions it is grown in gain AOC status, and wine-makers in this area have many generations of practice in bringing out the elegant and subtle characteristics of this grape.

Robola, and the other wines of Cephalonia have a long and illustrious history, being mentioned even in ancient epic poems such as Homer's Iliad. However, it was the Venetians who first recognized the great potential of Robola grapes, which quickly became the focus for the areas wine-makers and tradesmen. Nowadays, Robola wines act as an excellent example of a refined Greek dry white wine, which can be either drank as a light and refreshing summer aperitif, or alongside grilled white meats, salads, or white fish. Robola wines, as a rule, do not age particularly well, and it is highly recommended that bottles are drunk young, within two years of bottling. By doing so, you can enjoy the unique characteristics of this remarkable wine, complete with the balanced combination of chalky, smoky citrus flavors and delicate peach aromas which typify the finest examples of Robola varietal wines.

Additional Information on Greek Wines


Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?

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.