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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.92 $18.80
This Godello is a full and dry yet refreshing example of this noble Iberian white variety.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.89 $18.34
100% Godello • from various midslope plots with south and southwest exposition • slate soils • Hand-harvested...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.57
12 bottles: $12.32
Colour: Intense bright red colour with violet reflections. Nose: Flavours of prune, tobacco and vanilla. Taste: Dry,...
White
750ml
Bottle: $26.40
12 bottles: $25.08
One of Xurxo's projects outside of Rías Baixas - with a friend's vineyard in Valdeorras. From the 2022 vintage and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $29.90 $32.88
6 bottles: $29.30
A delicately aromatic white wine displaying layered notes of lavender, citrus blossom, and kumquat with hints of...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $10.53 $11.70
Clean pale yellow color. Nose fruity, persistent and elegant aromas. Good backbone on the palate.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.64 $19.60
12 bottles: $15.83
A clean, simple Gavi with sliced apples and hints of stones and white almonds. Crisp, dry and light on the palate...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.95
12 bottles: $22.49
The 2022 Nero d'Avola is dark and woodsy in the glass, with dried blueberries and exotic spices lifted by sage hints....
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $21.94
Pale yellow to the eye, this wine has honeydew melon, apricot and smoke aromas. Vivid peach and yellow-plum flavors...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $22.80
An intense and complex nose of ripe fruits, lime, fennel and mint. The apple, melon and peach fruit flavors carry on...
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White
750ml - Case of 4
Bottle: $45.03
The nose highlights its aromatic intensity and great personality with citrus, pink grapefruit, fennel, mint and a...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $22.94
12 bottles: $22.48
The white 2021 Ultreia Godello shows freshness, restraint, balance and good freshness, with a very low pH of 3.19. It...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $40.91
6 bottles: $40.09
COLOR: Pale straw yellow with green reflections. NOSE: Rich and intense bouquet on the nose, with complex fragrances...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.72
6 bottles: $18.00
COLOR: Pale straw yellow with green highlights. NOSE: The color is pale straw yellow with green reflections. The...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.90 $15.08
12 bottles: $13.59
A complexity of honeydew melon, apple, pear and acacia with a salty mineral crunch, racy acidity and an almond...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $63.12
3 bottles: $62.40
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
500ml
Bottle: $83.94
The wine is of a brilliant and intense ruby colour. The nose offers intense aromas of a fruity nature. The taste is...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.94 $13.01
An excellent deep, spicy, intriguing red wine from Sicily, the 2023 Nero d’Avolo is a tank-fermented and aged, dark...
White
750ml
Bottle: $32.95
6 bottles: $32.29
100% Godello from 30 year old vines in red clay soils. Grapes are destemmed and left on the skins for 24 hours....
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $18.80

Cortese Godello Nero D'avola Recioto

The Cortese white wine grape varietal has been grown in and around south Piedmont, Italy, for at least five hundred years. Its delicate nature and moderate acidity have made it a favorite with people around the world, and it is most commonly served alongside the excellent seafood and shellfish dishes of the part of Italy it is traditionally grown in. Cortese grapes are easily identifiable by their lime and greengage flavors, and their generally delicate and medium bodied character. Cortese wines are also notable for their freshness and crispness, again, making them an ideal match for seafood. Whilst colder years often produce harsher, more acidic Cortese wines, practices such as allowing malolactic fermentation can solve any such problems and still produce delicious white wines made from this varietal.

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.