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Bright gold yellow with straw yellow tints. Very elegant with a quintessence of pineapple, hazelnuts and...
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$17.09
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White rose petals and ripe citrus fruit open this elegant medium-bodied white wine. Flavors of juicy Bosc pear and...
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Straw gold yellow. Fine and elegant nose mixing white fruit aromas (pear, quince) with vanilla notes. Fruit driven on...
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This wine offers a clear golden color with an intense nose of familiar citrus and exotic passion fruit and mango. A...
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Aromatic suggestions of ripe fruit and baked apples invade the senses. The palate is bright, exhibiting floral notes...
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This wine has as a brilliant and limpid color with pale yellow reflections. The nose is intense, revealing elegant...
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$13.95
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$13.67
Grown in the southern sun and vinified in concrete vats (no oak) at 13.7% alcohol, this wine is astonishingly bright...
750ml
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$12.50
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COLOUR: A golden colour with a few green tints. BOUQUET: A rich bouquet expressing notes of acacia flowers, fresh...
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This fresh and lively Chardonnay offers a nose of tropical fruits, peaches and vanilla. It's round and cream on the...
750ml - Case of 12
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This has very pretty energy and focus with sliced melon, pears, stone and fresh ginger. Dried flowers. Citrus, too....
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There's a salty, racy counterpoint to the warm, rich fruit profile in this nicely balanced white, with warm spiced...
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$11.93
$12.99
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$11.52
An elegant, pale golden color with aromas of vanilla, hazelnut and toast. A full-bodied Chardonnay with bright, fresh...
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$23.90
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$19.55
This cuvée is endowed with a beautiful yellow colour with light golden reflections The nose, fresh and intense,...
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$36.07
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$30.40
This toasty white sports spice apple, lemon zest and pear flavors lined with spice and herb elements, with a solid...
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$32.46
$36.07
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This lavish complex wine starts with a rich gold hue. The nose offers up generous scents of butter, peach, pear and...
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$22.39
$24.88
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$20.00
A skin-contact version, with salty, iodine character infusing a base of bergamot tea and white fruit. Shows chalky...
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$18.41
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As crisp as a Granny Smith apple, this Chardonnay contains a pleasant blend of rich almond, hazelnut and honey...
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The wine displays a light yellow hue with lovely golden tints. The bouquet is complex, mixing floral aromas with...
Chardonnay Primitivo Mencia Other Italian Reds France Languedoc Roussillon Wine
Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.
As with many European grape varietals, there is some debate regarding the precise origins of the Primitivo grape. Most people now agree that it probably came from Croatia, where it is still used widely in the production of red wine, and it known as Tribidrag. However, today it is a grape most commonly associated with the powerful red wines of Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot, where the intense sunshine and brisk Mediterranean breezes produce grapes of remarkable character and balance. Primitivo is a dark grape, known for producing intense, inky, highly tannic wines, most notably the naturally sweet Dolce Naturale and the heavy and complex Primitivo di Manduria wines. Primitivo tends to be naturally very high in both tannin and alcohol, making it ideal for both barrel and cellar ageing, which brings out its more rounded and interesting features.
Primitivo is not the easiest grape to grow or manage, and it has had something of a difficult century. Indeed, by the 1990s, there was little interest in Puglian wines in general, and winemakers were neglecting their Primitivo vineyards and looking to other, more commercially viable varietals. However, the last decade has seen this grape come well and truly back into fashion, with new techniques and a heightened interest in native Italian grape varietals bringing Primitivo back into the spotlight. It is now widely loved for its intensity and ability to be paired with strongly flavored foods.
Year in, year out, France enjoys its prestigious reputation as the producer of the finest wines in the world. With a wine making history which spans several thousand years and owes its expertise to the Romans, it comes as little surprise that this most highly esteemed of the Old World wine countries continues to impress and enchant both novices and experts to this day. Despite the rise in quality of wines from neighboring European countries, not to mention the New World, the French wine industry continues to boom, with up to eight billion bottles being produced in recent years. However, France prides itself on always putting quality before quantity, and the wide range in fine produce is a testament to the dedication and knowledge of the wineries across the country. Indeed, from rich and complex reds to light and aromatic white wines, French wines are as varied and interesting as they are enjoyable to drink, making this country a firm favorite for wine lovers across the globe.
The French region of Languedoc Roussillon can claim to be amongst one of the oldest continuing wine regions in the world, with a history which stretches back to the ancient Greeks almost three thousand years ago. Today, Languedoc Roussillon is recognized as a region associated with fine wines made from many of the noble grapes, and with over 700,000 acres under vine, is a veritable powerhouse of viticulture which has helped shape the world of wines as we know it. Languedoc Roussillon is situated in the very south of France, and enjoys a fine, hot, Mediterranean climate which allows the vines there to reach full ripeness and provide reliable yields each year. Languedoc Roussillon today produces over a third of France's wines, and the bottles which leave the wineries of the region remain popular across the globe.