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Ben Glaetzer Shiraz The Bishop 2005
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$52.84
Readers should think of it as a French Vacqueyras on steroids. From 60-year-old vines in the Ebenezer district of...
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Domaine Jamet Cote Rotie 2005
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$358.95
93-95 Inky magenta. Highly expressive aromas of red and blue fruits, violet, incense, olive and baking spices, along...
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E. Guigal Cote Rotie La Mouline 2005
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$802.58
Rated 97-100 - The 2019 Côte Rôtie La Mouline is a bigger, richer Côte Rôtie. Co-fermented with a solid chuck of...
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E. Guigal Cote Rotie La Mouline 2005
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$798.61
Rated 97-100 - The 2019 Côte Rôtie La Mouline is a bigger, richer Côte Rôtie. Co-fermented with a solid chuck of...
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E. Guigal Ermitage Ex Voto Rouge 2005
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$224.85
Rated 97-100 - A barrel sample that just about made my eyes roll back in my head, the 2019 Ermitage Ex Voto has...
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Kaesler Shiraz The Bogan 2005
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$51.65
Aged in new and one-year-old American oak, and made in a completely different style, the 2005 Shiraz The Bogan (from...
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M. Chapoutier Ermitage Le Pavillon 2005
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$407.13
My favorite of the 2005s from Chapoutier, the 2005 Ermitage Le Pavillon is a heavenly wine that comes from one of the...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$60.63
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Penfolds Shiraz St. Henri 2005
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle:
$196.80
Aromatic, complex and silky, slipping in its gorgeous blackberry, currant and plum fruit against a seething...
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Rostaing Cote-Rotie Cote Blonde 2005
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$335.88
More minerality as well as obvious tannins emerge from the 2005 Côte Rôtie Côte Blonde. Which has ample black...
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Rostaing Cote-Rotie La Landonne 2005
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$186.95
Solid grip defines this red for now, with hints of white pepper, cassis, violet and iron held in reserve. Long and...
Arneis Grenache Syrah 2005
The Arneis white wine grape varietal is a native fruit of the beautiful northern region of Piedmont, in Italy. Whilst it has had great success over recent decades in several New World countries, Arneis has been cultivated for centuries in northern Italy, where it is recognized as one of the most representative grapes of the region. Arneis has long been used as a blending grape, due to its highly aromatic character, but it is becoming more and more common to see single variety bottles made using this grape. At its best, Arneis produces beautifully full bodied white wines, packed full of orchard fruit and apricot flavors, with a fine crispness and acidic punch. However, it is a notoriously difficult grape to cultivate successfully, hence its name which translates as 'little rascal'.
The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.
For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.
Known as Syrah in most countries around the world, and Shiraz in Australia and certain other regions of the New World, this grape varietal has proven over the centuries to be one of the most powerful and flavorful red wine grapes there is. It is now one of the planet's most widely grown grapes, and is a favorite with wineries as a result of its robustness and versatility. It isn't easy to identify many characteristics of this particular varietal, due to the fact that it is highly versatile and shows significant differences in flavor and character depending on the terroir it is grown in, and the climatic conditions of the region. However, Syrah is most widely associated with full bodied, strong and loud red wines, packed full of fruity and spicy flavors, held in a beautifully deep red liquid.