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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.90 $16.25
12 bottles: $14.60
Half open-bin, half tank fermentation with manual punchdowns once or twice a day. Nothing added or subtracted in the...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $107.15
6 bottles: $106.56
The 2016 Paramour is one of the best wines I have tasted from Blackbird. Dark, succulent and inviting, the 2016...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $38.50
12 bottles: $37.73
Zesty and spicy, with appealing raspberry, dried cherry and smoky cinnamon flavors that persist toward fine-grained...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $133.00
Deep purple-black color. It struts an incredible array of polished, perfumed black and red fruits - Kirsch, black...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $305.64 $339.60
The 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Rubicon, which used to be a proprietary blend and had a somewhat rustic, Italian...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.38
12 bottles: $32.71
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.50
Moving toward their top-of-the-line proprietary reds, Kendall-Jackson’s 2012 Meritage Grand Reserve is 30.7%...
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Red
375ml
Bottle: $41.80
12 bottles: $34.29
The 2016 Winemaker's Cuvée is medium to deep garnet-purple in color and scented of cassis, blackberries and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $261.42 $281.10
The 2012s made from Bordeaux varietals include their flagship wine, the 2012 Proprietary Red Les Pavots, a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $34.28
12 bottles: $33.59
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.92
12 bottles: $25.40
We chose Dry Creek Cabernet Sauvignon sourced from Bradford Mountain for its gentle minerality, spicy cedar notes and...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $53.94
12 bottles: $52.86
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $59.93
Made up of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Cabernet Franc and 10% Merlot, the 2016 Trinite Estate Acaibo has a medium to...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $44.85
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $132.72
12 bottles: $130.07
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $266.88
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $470.32
Another perfect wine is Bevan’s equal part blend of Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the 2012 Proprietary Red Sugarloaf...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $237.04
The 2016 Proprietary Red Sugarloaf Mountain is a blend of 55% Cabernet Franc, 40% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot. Very...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $138.47
The same blend as the straight Vertigo (52% Syrah, 30% Grenache, and 18% Mourvèdre), the 2016 Vertigo 22 offers a...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $366.01
Cardinale’s 2012 Proprietary Red, the flagship wine from the Jackson Family, was looked after and put-together by...
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Red Blend 2012 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.