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Red
750ml
Bottle: $62.94
12 bottles: $61.68
Rated 94 - The 2021 Grenache Shake Ridge Ranch is a very complete wine, especially in the way it marries fruit...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.94 $16.25
12 bottles: $14.64
Half open-bin, half tank fermentation with manual punchdowns once or twice a day. Nothing added or subtracted in the...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $38.50
12 bottles: $37.73
Rated 91 - Zesty and spicy, with appealing raspberry, dried cherry and smoky cinnamon flavors that persist toward...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $27.12
12 bottles: $26.58
This pretty Vermentino wine is of a brilliant lemon hue, with aromatic notes of candied lemon peel and lychee, and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $41.20
12 bottles: $40.38
The name, in our "secret code", refers to the aromatic exuberance of the Grenache component in the wine. The 2018,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.95
12 bottles: $23.47
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $27.20
12 bottles: $26.66
Lovely crimson red color. Very pretty nose, so nicely integrated that it seems nearly impossible to discern the...
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Rose
750ml
Bottle: $22.88
12 bottles: $22.42
2/3 Gamay from Barsotti Ranch Vineyard, 1/3 Syrah from Fenaughty Vineyard.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.95
12 bottles: $21.51
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White
750ml
Bottle: $19.95
12 bottles: $19.55
100% Pinot Gris from the Heringer Vineyard - a silty-loam soiled site located just outside of Freeport on the...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.95
12 bottles: $21.51
100% Primitivo (that’s how they call it at the vineyard) from Shake Ridge Ranch, owned and operated by Ann Kraemer....
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White
750ml
Bottle: $27.92
12 bottles: $27.36
Sourced from Rorick Heritage Vineyard, a 2,000 ft. elevation vineyard high in the Sierra Foothills with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.66 $22.80
*95% Tempranillo 5% Graciano *Shake Ridge Vineyards (Amador County AVA) *1750 ft elevation *Red volcanic soil with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.90 $30.00
12 bottles: $28.32
50% Syrah 50% Grenache from North Yuba (Renaissance Vineyard) 100% destemmed by hand resulting in a bin full of...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.00
12 bottles: $21.56
White
750ml
Bottle: $34.94
12 bottles: $34.24
Sauvignon Blanc and Roussanne (Slope 23, 1900 ft) from Renaissance Vineyard. Sauvignon Blanc harvested first in early...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.74 $26.00
12 bottles: $24.25
Gamay, made the old-fashioned way - whole cluster, foot-stomped, open top fermented. The wine has a deep color, and...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.95
12 bottles: $23.47
Mourvèdre from two high-elevation vineyards in the Sierra Foothills - Cedarville and Sumu Kaw. Hank Beckmeyer knows...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.95
12 bottles: $25.43
The Cedarville is always light in color It shows lots of citrus in the nose, along with plum and granite soil. An...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.95
12 bottles: $25.43
Sumu Kaw is an exemplary Syrah vineyard. The elements of elevation (3000 feet), location (in the middle of a pine...
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United States California Sierra Foothills

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.