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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.20
12 bottles: $20.78
This full-bodied and moderately tannic wine offers a good, mellow, barrel-aged character along with deep-black-fruit...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.91
12 bottles: $17.55
Aromas of honeydew melon, grapefruit, nectarine, orange blossom and tangerine lead into flavors of peach and mango.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.12 $17.91
12 bottles: $12.35
Aromas of honey, white peach, honeysuckle, pineapple and lemon zest with a long, smooth finish.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.12 $17.91
12 bottles: $12.35
Features fresh lime, pear and melon flavors that are juicy and bright, with details of lemon curd and orange blossoms...
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88
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $24.70 $26.00
6 bottles: $20.00
The first duty of a Port-style wine is to be dazzlingly rich and sweet yet balanced in acidity, and this bottling is...
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93
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.64 $19.60
12 bottles: $14.25
A plethora of aromas waft out of the glass, suggesting raspberry, strawberry, red plum, red roses and violets, along...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.60
6 bottles: $32.00
This ruby-red wine incorporates fresh aromas and flavors of blackberry, raspberry, red and black plum, capsicum and...
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91
Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.60
6 bottles: $32.00
This is a very good, richly flavored wine, quite full bodied and generously spiced, with vanilla and brown sugar notes.
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89
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United States California

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.