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750ml
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$13.94
$15.00
An excellent Beaujolais-village with so much black cherry fruit, but also the brightness and liveliness we look for...
750ml
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$20.94
$22.20
12 bottles:
$20.52
Saint Amour is bounding with juicy raspberry fruit. It's full of energy with great minerality and silky tannins....
750ml
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$20.52
$22.80
In the cellar, the vinification is semi-carbonic and lasts between 12 to 15 days. A weighted grill keeps the cap...
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750ml
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$15.44
$16.25
An impressive, concentrated Nouveau, with ripe, fresh cherry and garrigue flavors that show a salty mineral...
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750ml
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$18.24
$19.20
This wine features a complex bouquet of raspberries, mulberries, rose petals, and wet stone. The palate is supple,...
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750ml
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$19.00
$20.00
Floral and fruity, the aromas of strawberry, peach, violet and spicy cinnamon are common.
750ml
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$15.94
$17.91
Fermented naturally (carbonic maceration) and aged in cement and stainless steel. Fermentation lasts 8 – 12 days....
750ml
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$19.94
12 bottles:
$19.54
This small-batch Brouilly leads with delicious black fruit. The wine has a nose of pencil shavings, black plum, dried...
750ml
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$19.94
12 bottles:
$19.54
What an attractive nose of violets this Fleurie has. A firmly structured wine for this appellation with serious...
750ml
Bottle:
$18.75
12 bottles:
$18.38
Deep purple in color, this wine has an aromatic nose of blackberry, blueberry and hints of hibiscus. This vintage...
750ml
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$37.94
12 bottles:
$37.18
From Gamay vines planted in 1978 in the coolest of the domaine's red wine parcels, the 2019 Mâcon-Cruzille Beaumont...
750ml
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$37.94
12 bottles:
$37.18
Offering up aromas of cherries, sweet red berries, violets and spices, the 2020 Mâcon-Cruzille Beaumont is medium to...
750ml
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$18.00
12 bottles:
$17.64
This producer also owns vineyards in Burgundy and gives the Burgundian wood-aging treatment to the Beaujolais....
750ml
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$19.90
12 bottles:
$19.50
The 2019 Moulin-à-Vent Coeur de Terroirs, from 50-year-old vines, is matured in barrels and demi-muids. It has a...
Barbera Gamay France Burgundy
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.
The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.
The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.
Year in, year out, France enjoys its prestigious reputation as the producer of the finest wines in the world. With a wine making history which spans several thousand years and owes its expertise to the Romans, it comes as little surprise that this most highly esteemed of the Old World wine countries continues to impress and enchant both novices and experts to this day. Despite the rise in quality of wines from neighboring European countries, not to mention the New World, the French wine industry continues to boom, with up to eight billion bottles being produced in recent years. However, France prides itself on always putting quality before quantity, and the wide range in fine produce is a testament to the dedication and knowledge of the wineries across the country. Indeed, from rich and complex reds to light and aromatic white wines, French wines are as varied and interesting as they are enjoyable to drink, making this country a firm favorite for wine lovers across the globe.
The region of Burgundy has become synonymous with high quality red wines, but in actual fact the region consistently produces a wide variety of fine wines of many different styles, rigorously protected by French wine laws designed to keep reputations and quality at a very high level. The region benefits greatly from a warm and sunny summer climate, which, coupled with the excellent quality soils which typify the region, and centuries of experience and expertise, has led to the region being known all over the world for the excellence of its produce. The majority of grapevines grown here are of the Pinot Noir varietal, which has helped Burgundy become known as the definitive region for elegant and smooth red wines, but Chardonnay grapes and many others are also grown in abundance and used to make both still and sparkling wines.