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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.38 $20.40
6 bottles: $17.50
Laced with blackberry, black cherry and spice flavors, this red is rich and juicy. Well-structured too, yet balanced...
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White
500ml
Bottle: $19.90 $20.80
12 bottles: $19.00
Nothing besides glorious dried fig and raisin aromas are the greeting on this brown, lusty, sweet Sherry. Given the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.94 $20.08
12 bottles: $16.60
Red wine made with grapes coming from some of our oldest vineyards in Agliano Terme. Suggested with cold cuts,...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.93
12 bottles: $15.61
Light, bright, clean, and fresh. A varietally perfect example of Barbera.
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $16.25
Appearance: Clear garnet red. Nose: Rich and intense, with a good concentration of delicate, crisp fruity aromas....
Red
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...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $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...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.89
This vibrant and exuberant Barbera opens with aromas of boysenberry, tart blueberry, fresh violets and roasted herbs....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $16.66
12 bottles: $15.83
Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.79
12 bottles: $18.41
Barbera d'Alba comes from the hilly areas around the city of Alba in Piemonte. Franco Amoroso Barbera d'Alba is rich...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.38 $17.09
12 bottles: $13.18
This has aromas of nutmeg, chocolate, cherries and poached plums. It’s medium- to full-bodied with lightly chewy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.09
12 bottles: $16.75
Franco Amoroso Barbera'Asti is elegant and polished with layers of dark red cherry fruit, lively acidity and subtle...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.30 $17.00
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.93
Plum and cherry aromas are ripe and rich with intense fruitiness. Sleek attack, quite concentrated and assertive, but...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.90
Notes of blueberries and bramble fruit with lavender, dried herbs and cocoa. Medium-bodied. Juicy and sleek with so...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $18.52
Deep red in color with purple highlights and aromas of black berries on the nose. Crisp acidity on the palate with a...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.80
12 bottles: $18.42
Born from the blend of grapes coming from two areas, Langhe and Roero. Langhe give depth and volume, and Roero...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.99
Zingy, rich nose that’s full of yellow apples, white almonds, biscuits and sour dough. Creamy, round and flavorful...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.95
12 bottles: $18.57
Umberta is 100% Barbera and the so-called "entry-level" wine at Iuli. Coming from south-facing vineyards planted...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.94 $18.34
This is brown-gold in color, its maple, chocolate and raisin aromas extending onto the smooth, layered palate. Toasty...
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Barbera Sercial Sherry Wine

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.

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.