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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $159.60 $168.00
Hans Reisetbauer is widely recognized as one of the world‘s great farmer-distillers, relentless in his pursuit of...
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $74.10 $78.00
The latest creation from master distiller Hans Reisetbauer. A cuvée of 50% Jamaican and 50% Reisetbauer‘s own...
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750ml
Bottle: $14.30
12 bottles: $14.01
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Red
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Bottle: $15.94 $17.50
The 2021 Zweigelt was grown on the southern edge of Kamptal on alluvial gravels. Subtle reduction is still smoky and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $7.88 $11.25
Zweigelt is a crossing between Blaufränkisch and St. Laurent created by Dr. Fritz Zweigelt at the Klosterneuburg in...
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12 bottles: $18.56
Rich and plummy quite lush for a ‘basic’ Liter wine, with almost a New World fleshiness.
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Bottle: $16.94
12 bottles: $16.60
Also a month in bottle, but it's more round and also less sweet; in fact this is a mannerly fellow with a certain...
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Red
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $34.88 $36.72
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Bottle: $19.38
Violet-reddish in color. Aromas of cherry, dark berries, herbs and spices. On the palate it is balanced with firm...
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750ml - Case of 12
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Deep purple in color with aromas of fresh cherries and clean earth. Medium bodied on the palate with flavors of black...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $18.28
Deep purple in color with aromas of fresh cherries and clean earth. Medium bodied on the palate with flavors of black...
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Red
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Bottle: $12.94 $14.30
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This is bottled and made in the shared Buchegger-Mayr winery. 100% Zweigelt, grown in loess soils. The fruit is...
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750ml
Bottle: $20.94
12 bottles: $20.52
Quite a rich and earthy wine with plenty of spice and savoriness, but also generous blueberry fruit. Underlying this...
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Mencia Rum Zweigelt Austria

It is difficult to categorize rum as a single spirit, because of all the spirits found around the globe, rum is perhaps the one which varies most dramatically from place to place. Clear, white rum - a favorite for cocktail drinkers - is perhaps the most prevalent example found today, but there is a whole world of darker, spiced and molasses-rich rums to explore, thanks to the fascinating history and wide reach this drink has.

Rum came about during the colonial times, when sugar was a huge and world-changing business. The molasses left over from the sugar production industry could easily be distilled into a delicious alcoholic drink, and provided extra income for the sugar traders. Before long, it became a favorite of sailors and transatlantic merchants, and it quickly spread across the Caribbean and Latin America, where it remains highly popular today.

The production of rum is a basic and simple one - you take your molasses, add yeast and water, and then ferment and distil the mixture. However, as is often the case, the devil is in the detail. The variation in yeasts found from place to place, the maturation period, the length of the fermentation and the type of stills and barrels used provide the rainbow-colored variation that gives rum its spectrum of styles and characteristics.

Archaeological evidence suggests that grapevines have been grown and cultivated in what is today modern Austria for over four thousand years, making it one of the oldest wine producing countries in the world. Over the centuries, relatively little has changed in Austrian wine, with the dominant grape varietals continuing to be Grüner Veltliner, Zweigelt, Pinot Noir and others. Austria is renowned for producing excellent and characterful dry white wines, although in the eastern part of the country, many wineries specialist in sweeter white wines made in a similar style to those of neighboring Hungary. Today, Austria has over fifty thousand hectares under vine, split over four key wine regions. The domestic wine industry remains strong, with Austrians drinking their local produce outside in the summer, and people around the world are beginning to once more rediscover this fascinating and ancient wine culture.