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Red
750ml
Bottle: $84.94
6 bottles: $83.24
This is an attractively intense style with ripe red berry, plum and chocolate aromas and flavors. The glossy tannins...
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Sparkling
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $71.80
Intense yellow with highlights veering towards gold reflexes in color. Notes of fine tropical fruit with so, delicate...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $17.94
12 bottles: $17.58
This is a unique and delicious sparkling wine named after the ancient Greek god of shepherds, flocks, and rustic...
Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $64.79
6 bottles: $64.00
The grapes for this wine come from a single vineyard where the more than twenty-year-old vines enjoy the benefits of...
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1.5Ltr
Bottle: $443.00
3 bottles: $440.00
Enticing, fragrant aromas of toast, lemon zest and an earthy-smoky nuance lead to a palate of subtle Bosc-pear,...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $190.08 $211.20
Enticing, fragrant aromas of toast, lemon zest and an earthy-smoky nuance lead to a palate of subtle Bosc-pear,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $53.88
12 bottles: $52.80
The 2015 Brunello di Montalcino is a pretty, translucent ruby color. The dusty bouquet blends dried roses and violets...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $96.94
12 bottles: $95.00
A Brunello with plenty of cherry and walnut character. Coffee, too. It’s full-bodied with firm, chewy tannins and a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $42.72
6 bottles: $41.87
In the austere camp, delivering plum, cherry, graphite, leather and earth notes. Vibrant, firm and long, in a...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $88.14
Elegant and complex with notes of matured dark fruit, leather and underbrush. Well balanced with pronounced and...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $144.93
A powerful version, this red delivers concentrated plum, black cherry, iron and earth flavors allied to a base of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $30.94
6 bottles: $30.32
I love the purity of fruit to this delightful sangiovese with fresh hibiscus tea, rose petals and orange rind. Medium...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $270.00 $300.00
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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Sparkling
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $105.84
Golden yellow in color with warm aromas of yellow pear and toasted brioche. Well structured and complex with racy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.93
12 bottles: $39.13
A firm, silky red with beautiful density and tightness, showing finesse and focus. It’s medium-to full-bodied with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.76
12 bottles: $38.96
The sliced dark-cherry and floral aromas with hints of meat and spice are beautiful. Full body, round and chewy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.19
12 bottles: $19.79
The 2015 Crozes-Hermitage Sens comes from a mix of alluvial and granite soils (mostly alluvial) and was completely...
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Champagne Blend Sangiovese Syrah 2015

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.

The name of this grape, meaning 'blood of Jove' conjures up evocative images of long dead civilizations, and gives the Sangiovese varietal a sense of the holy, the sacred, the special. Indeed, this particular type of Italian grape has been cultivated and processed for thousands of years, and is said to be the original favorite grape varietal of the Romans, and the Etruscans before them. Throughout history, vintners have continued to plant this varietal, and they continue to produce wonderful wines to this day. The long bunches of very dark, round fruit are treasured by fine wineries in Italy and a few other places around the world, and when young, these grapes are lively – full of strawberry flavors and a little spiciness. However, it is when they are aged in oak that they take on some truly special flavors and aromas, as seen in some of the finest wines of the Old World.

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.