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White
750ml
Bottle: $71.93
This is a new 2017 bottling of the NV Cream VOS, marked as L 1/17, the first bottling of 2017. This is a VOS with an...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $34.94 $36.00
12 bottles: $34.24
When Bodegas Tradición started out, its original portfolio did not include a Fino. This is therefore a very welcome...
DC
93
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92
Sale
White
750ml
Bottle: $77.88 $80.00
Given the age of the stocks (some more than 45 years old), this wine has amazing fruit presence. While Tradición...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $107.94
This young bodega keeps to its name by releasing Sherries of classic maturity. Extraordinarily complex aromas,...
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96
White
750ml
Bottle: $84.00
Supremely thick, with a syrupy feel to the buckwheat, toasted brown bread, warm date and molten chocolate notes. Not...
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Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $21.00 $24.00
The NV Contrabandista is a blend of the style called medium dry that is usually a very commercial category of cheap...
WA
89
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White
750ml
Bottle: $23.04 $25.60
I could have chosen Valdespino’s outstanding Inocente Fino with its consistent excellence. Instead I have chosen...
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White
500ml
Bottle: $163.94
The NV Amontillado Coliseo VORS, is an extremely old (much older than the 30 years certified by the VORS...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.94 $20.80
The rum raisin, date and burnt orange peel notes are nicely melded, with fruitcake and licorice root accents, all...
WS
90
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White
500ml
Bottle: $40.25 $42.00
Anise, date, orange bitters and toffee notes are nicely melded together, with a slightly sweet edge that carries the...
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91
Sale
White
375ml
Bottle: $13.44 $15.00
As with many other wines from the José Estévez group, there is a special bottling of Valdespino's flagship NV Fino...
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Sale
White
750ml
Bottle: $23.04 $25.60
As with many other wines from the José Estévez group, there is a special bottling of Valdespino's flagship NV Fino...
WA
94
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93
Sale
White
375ml
Bottle: $11.94 $13.00
About five to six years old, from La Guita bodega. Bright astringency and vivid intensity, with a long, refreshing...
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White
500ml
Bottle: $44.94
The NV Don Gonzalo Oloroso 20 Anos VOS, produced with Palomino grapes from the Carrascal vineyards, is fermented in...
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White
500ml
Bottle: $38.94 $42.00
The NV Palo Cortado Viejo C.P. produced from Palomino from the Macharnudo Alto is feed with specific casks of Fino...
WA
93
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White
375ml
Bottle: $14.94 $15.84
Offers layers of macerated date, ganache, warm caraway, buckwheat honey and chocolate-covered orange peel notes, with...
WS
93
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90
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White
750ml
Bottle: $25.92 $28.80
Offers layers of macerated date, ganache, warm caraway, buckwheat honey and chocolate-covered orange peel notes, with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.84
12 bottles: $39.04
85% Schiava/15% other. Known locally as Vernatsch, Schiava is a thin-skinned grape native to the Alto Adige and on...
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White
1.0Ltr - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.42
Oxidative notes of dry fruits, freshly split wood, and nuts are dry and savory aromas. A touch of date syrup...
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Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $13.99
Oxidative notes of dry fruits, freshly split wood, and nuts are dry and savory aromas. A touch of date syrup...
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Malagousia Mencia Sherry Viogner Wine

If you're looking for a Greek white wine packed full of interesting character and a wide range of unique and surprising aromas, then the wines made from the Malagousia grape varietal are unlikely to disappoint. Although this grape is said to have originated in and around Nafpaktos, in Western Greece, it is now most commonly grown, cultivated and processed in Greek Macedonia, where it is used to make high quality white wines of a highly aromatic nature. Indeed, Malagousia is renowned for producing wines which are full of unusual aromas, with many wines holding traces of jasmine, mint, citrus and exotic fruits, and occasionally a whole lot more.

It was the famous Greek wine maker Gerovassiliou who was said to be the first to experiment with the Malagousia grapes, which were previously used mainly by smallholders and families to produce simple house wines. Gerovassiliou recognized that Malagousia had the potential and the characteristics necessary for producing excellent quality wines, and before long, vineyards were being planted across Macedonia, the Peloponnese and Attica. Today, wines made with the Malagousia grapes tend to be full bodied, with a noticeable tannin content elegantly interplaying with the mellow, medium acidity of the wine. Such roundness allows all of these interesting and exciting flavors and aromas come forth, making for a truly fascinating and unique wine.

Additional Information on Greek Wines


Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?

Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.

Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.

Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.