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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,...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $20.04 $21.10
12 bottles: $18.91
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $33.06 $34.80
12 bottles: $31.92
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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91
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $51.38 $54.08
6 bottles: $42.00
An impressive mix of savory and aromatic aromas is abundant on the nose. Baked white cherries, golden peach, raisins,...
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94
BTI
91
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $108.08
3 bottles: $90.00
Big flavors of apple and pear cider, clearly holding their character through the influence of the cask, here bringing...
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95
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93
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.94 $12.74
12 bottles: $11.16
An easy-drinking red, with flavors of roasted plum and grilled herbs, plus hints of mocha and smoke. Chewy. Touriga...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $31.23 $32.87
12 bottles: $27.35
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $47.28
12 bottles: $38.76
Aromas of fresh pressed cider are supported with a core of earthiness. Medium rich in the mouth, it pleasantly coats...
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89
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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...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $51.05
6 bottles: $50.03
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White
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $65.94
3 bottles: $64.62
Shows depth and complexity while staying light on its feet. A salty brioche note infuses this white's base of crunchy...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $26.94
12 bottles: $26.40
Shows depth and complexity while staying light on its feet. A salty brioche note infuses this white's base of crunchy...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $79.94
6 bottles: $78.34
This eight-year-old Calvados « Finition en Fûts de Porto » (Porto cask finish) stayed several months in small...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $12.57
12 bottles: $12.32
Bright white wine with golden hue. Aroma of ripe white fruit and minerals. Creamy, fleshy, fresh and very seductive...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $11.75
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.62 $15.13
The 2022 Nero d'Avola mixes sweet herbal tones with crushed black cherries and wet stone to form an inviting bouquet....
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89
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.94 $22.80
12 bottles: $21.66
Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.00
12 bottles: $17.64
Nero d’Avola, guyot, planted in 2011, harvested in late September at 42 hl/ha. Destemmed and crushed, with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.63 $18.48
12 bottles: $13.59
Umami notes of soy sauce and black olives, a bit of mossy underbrush and berries swirl together on the nose of the...
WE
89
WA
88

Calvados White Rhone Blends Nero D'avola Mencia

Viognier, an exotic, elusive varietal, originally comes from the Northern Rhone Valley of France, and has captured the fascination of the U.S. wine-drinking public. At its finest, it is full-bodied and nearly golden in color, with a haunting bouquet of peaches, apricots and pears, and a floral quality like no other wine in the world. Many vintners are trying their hand at this varietal, spreading from its American beginnings in Napa Valley and Santa Barbara County to wineries as far away as Virginia. Marsanne and Rousanne, two other important varieties from the Rhone Valley are making waves in the U.S., particularly on the Central Coast of California.

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.