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White
750ml
Bottle: $169.93
12 bottles: $166.53
Rated 96 - Complex and super intense Palo Cortado, loaded with concentration. Salted caramel, toffee, walnut and some...
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White
375ml
Bottle: $13.00
12 bottles: $12.35
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.24 $19.20
12 bottles: $15.44
Ruby color. Elegant, with fresh fig and ripe red berry aromas (black cherry, wild strawberry), as well as delicate...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.95 $15.17
12 bottles: $13.67
The Beau! Beaujolais comes from a forty year-old high-density vineyard. Fermentation is traditional, 100%...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.94
12 bottles: $28.36
If there is a red grape more expressive in its youth than Valdiguié, we've yet to meet it. It's so many vibrant,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.41 $15.83
Rated 91 - This is bright for a cream Sherry, with green tea and singed ginger notes out front, providing heft to the...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $64.79
6 bottles: $64.00
Rated 96 - An exceptionally old fino, perhaps the oldest on the market, at about 15 years, from a gentle, gracious...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.94 $15.83
Rated 90 - Sea salt, Brazil nut and dried chamomile notes are racy and filigreed, with a stony edge on the finish....
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White
750ml
Bottle: $69.95
6 bottles: $68.55
Rated 90 - The NV El Tresillo Amontillado Fino is from the El Tresillo solera (hence the same name as the 1874...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $27.94 $31.19
Rated 92 - Shows lovely focus and persistence, with a prominent thread of bitter almond that runs from start to...
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92
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White
750ml
Bottle: $59.93 $64.79
Rated 91 - The NV Villapanes Oloroso wears a dark amber-brown robe and has a very intense nose, showing some...
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White
500ml
Bottle: $19.90 $20.80
12 bottles: $19.00
Rated 95 - Nothing besides glorious dried fig and raisin aromas are the greeting on this brown, lusty, sweet Sherry....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94
12 bottles: $16.60
Brouilly is one of the Cru Beaujolais, which are known for producing excellent, food friendly, underrated wines at a...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $11.46 $13.00
12 bottles: $11.23
This traditional dessert wine compares favorably to the most famous imported brands of cream sherry - only ours is...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.99
12 bottles: $15.67
Rated 89 - Savory undertones of grilled thyme, fresh earth and smoky mineral flank the steeped cherry and raspberry...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.90
12 bottles: $20.90
The Fleurie wine-making is traditional - whole clusters are kept, which leads to a semi-carbonic maceration as the...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.25
12 bottles: $12.01
Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.45
12 bottles: $18.08
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $18.41

Gamay Sherry

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.