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1.5Ltr
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$21.80
6 bottles:
$12.57
Delicate strawberry bouquet, with a crisp finish. Light-bodied.
750ml
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$11.76
$12.38
12 bottles:
$7.49
Delicate strawberry bouquet, with a crisp finish. Light-bodied.
750ml
Bottle:
$17.94
12 bottles:
$17.58
This is dark-fruited with notes of chocolate and dark spices as well as bark and wet soil. Full and creamy with...
750ml
Bottle:
$14.93
12 bottles:
$14.63
This is bright and fruity with raspberries, blueberries, violets and dark chocolate on offer. Medium- to full-bodied,...
750ml
Bottle:
$56.94
6 bottles:
$55.80
A plush, modern style, this Barbera offers sweet, ripe plum, fig and toasty oak flavors. Remains fresh, with balance...
1.5Ltr
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$22.00
$23.16
6 bottles:
$13.00
This White Zinfandel has aromas of ripe strawberries, raspberries and the perfect amount of sweetness. Enjoy its soft...
750ml
Bottle:
$13.95
12 bottles:
$13.67
100% Barbera from a clay and limestone-gypsum vineyard with 20 year old vines, densely planted at 5000 plants per...
750ml
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$18.00
12 bottles:
$17.64
Nero d’Avola, guyot, planted in 2011, harvested in late September at 42 hl/ha. Destemmed and crushed, with...
750ml
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$16.63
$18.48
12 bottles:
$13.59
Umami notes of soy sauce and black olives, a bit of mossy underbrush and berries swirl together on the nose of the...
750ml
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$15.93
$16.76
12 bottles:
$15.92
Sleek and elegant, this Barbera boasts rose, cherry, raspberry and iron flavors. Linear and bracing, with fine...
750ml
Bottle:
$19.19
12 bottles:
$17.48
This 100% Barbera wine is produced from a Monferrato vineyard that is 20 to 30 years old. The soil contains white...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$14.73
A fine and persistent wine, with a strong scent of ripe red fruit.
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$19.20
COLOR: Intense red with violet reflections.
PERFUME: Red fruit, ripe blackberries and cocoa scent.
TASTE: Tannic...
750ml
Bottle:
$79.93
6 bottles:
$78.33
The 2019 Sicilia Mille e Una Notte is a blend of Nero d'Avola, Petit Verdot, Syrah and other complementary grapes....
750ml
Bottle:
$17.94
12 bottles:
$17.58
Cherries and watermelon with some citrus aromas follow through to a medium to full body with creamy-textured tannins...
750ml
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$20.94
12 bottles:
$20.52
Very typical with lots of sour cherry and crisp lemon zest in both the nose and palate. Medium body with bright...
750ml
Bottle:
$13.40
12 bottles:
$13.13
COLOR: Bright magenta red in color.
NOSE: Very fruit forward with notes of red berries (cherry, blackberry),...
Barbera Nero D'avola Sherry White Zinfandel
For centuries now, the beautiful red grapes of the Barbera varietal have been grown in Italy, where they are prized for their unusual high acid content and low tannins, brought about by their thin skins. The Barbera grape varietal thrives in warmer climates, and has had some success overseas in the new world, where its strongly aromatic flavors of intense hedgerow fruits make it a favorite with wineries and wine drinkers looking for a grape which offers plenty of interesting characteristics. Interestingly, the differences between young and aged wines made from this varietal are quite significant, with younger bottles holding a plethora of berry flavors, including blueberry and raspberry notes, and oak aged wines made from the Barbera grape being much loved for their ability to become extremely complex and spicy, and picking up vanilla flavors from the wood they are barreled in.
Italy’s largest island, Sicily, has a wine producing history that can put most other European regions to shame. It was producing quality wines before the days of the Roman empire, and even the Ancient Greeks were not the first to cultivate vines on the island. For as long as anyone knows, the key grape varietal of Sicily has been Nero d’Avola, the beautiful, deep blue skinned grape which produces the region’s characterful, powerful red wines. While in the past, Nero d’Avola was mainly used as a blending grape, due to its deep color and intensely full body, it is today being increasingly celebrated as a single varietal wine grape, and is perfect for those who like their wines boisterous, loud and strong.
Nero d’Avola is grown pretty much everywhere on Sicily, as demand for wines made from this grape have never been higher. Despite its power and body, it is quite a versatile grape - it can be aged in oak barrels, which produces a dense and dark wine which puts its intense characteristics to good use, but it is also often drunk quite young, which allows its jammy, plummy character to come forward. It is also used to make rose wines in some appellations of Sicily, demonstrating a softer side to this otherwise heavy, deeply flavorful grape.
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.