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Verite La Joie 2011
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$246.36
A frankly toasty version, with a cocoa and cedar frame surrounding fresh plum and blackberry compote flavors. Reveals...
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Verite La Joie 2013
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$271.52
The 2013 La Joie, which is 46% from Knights Valley, 32% from Chalk Hill and 22% from Alexander Valley, is a blend of...
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Verite La Joie 2014
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$271.78
A bright and extroverted style, with cherry, cassis and damson plum notes streaking through, lined with fresh savory...
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Verite La Joie 2018
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$379.61
#43 in Top 100 Wines from USA, 2021. Blackberries, black mushrooms, violets, flowers, and dark tobacco. Black...
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Verite La Muse 1998
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$774.66
French for 'inspiration', La Muse is crafted primarily from Merlot fruit and represent a Pomerol-style wine. This...
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Verite La Muse 2007
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$414.70
French for 'inspiration', La Muse is crafted primarily from Merlot fruit and represent a Pomerol-style wine. This...
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Verite La Muse 2008
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$344.95
French for 'inspiration', La Muse is crafted primarily from Merlot fruit and represent a Pomerol-style wine. This...
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Verite La Muse 2011
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$236.95
Mature smoky notes accent the dried berry and dark fruit flavors, flanked by burnished cedar and tarry hints. Merlot,...
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Verite La Muse 2012
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$295.95
French for 'inspiration', La Muse is crafted primarily from Merlot fruit and represent a Pomerol-style wine. This...
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Verite La Muse 2013
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$307.46
The 2013 La Muse, like all of the 2013s, comes about one-third from Alexander Valley vineyards, 40-plus percent from...
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Verite La Muse 2014
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$279.45
Powerfully structured, with a deep well of dark currant, dried blackberry and plum flavors, framed by concentrated...
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Verite La Muse 2018
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$430.39
A blend of 90% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 4% Malbec, the 2018 La Muse was matured 16 months in 100% new French oak...
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Verite Le Desir 2008
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$364.95
The fruit for this blend of 61% Cabernet Franc, 31% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec came from Chalk...
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Verite Le Desir 2011
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$246.36
Rounded and easy in feel, with a mocha frame caressing steeped plum and black cherry fruit flavors. Tobacco and loam...
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Verite Le Desir 2014
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$264.95
This shows a mix of floral, herb and spice notes out front, followed quickly by cassis and plum puree flavors that...
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Verite Le Desir 2018
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$372.35
The wine has a gorgeous nose. All botanicals, florals, berries, wet leaves, earth which is dewy and freshly turned....
United States California Sonoma Valley
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.
California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.
California's beautiful and remarkably fertile Sonoma Valley has grown over the decades to become one of the United States' most respected and profitable wine regions, with wineries within the region benefiting from the superb Californian sunshine, low rainfall and wonderfully rich soils. Because of this vital combination of excellent conditions, the region is able to grow a wide range of grape varietals for use in the production of an impressive array of wines, with many different red and white wine grapes flourishing each year and producing excellent and characterful results. The soils have been enriched by volcanic activity, and the presence of geothermal springs, which make this region a unique one, and very much the beating heart of California's ever growing wine industry.