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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $214.93
A fascinating 40-year-old spirit – Speyside by way of the tropics. Expressive aromas and flavors of both fleshy...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $39.93 $43.20
12 bottles: $39.13
Solid, good-value 10-year-old from Grande Champagne. Golden in color, offering bright, warm notes of apricot, plum...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $39.94
12 bottles: $39.14
This five-year-old from Grand Champagne is a fine example of a young, all-around Cognac that can be sipped and also...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $74.94 $76.80
12 bottles: $73.44
Age makes all the difference in Grande Champagne, and at 20 years old, this Cognac has begun to show its elegance and...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $37.94 $40.80
12 bottles: $29.64
Scented with baked apple and vanilla, this amber-hued brandy—aged three to four years—shows oak, cedar and...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $47.43 $51.00
12 bottles: $41.04
TOP 100 SPIRITS 2015. Almost like dessert in a glass, this deep topaz-hued Cognac has a scent that evokes baked apple...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $30.13 $32.40
12 bottles: $22.80
A blend of unfermented grape juice mixed with unaged brandy then aged together for 18 months in oak. 17% abv
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $95.71 $102.91
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $64.94 $69.80
Dark golden yellow, amber. Delicate vanilla oak scent, touch of port wine. Rose and violet. Fruity and jamy: apricot...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $43.89 $46.79
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $48.94 $51.59
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $67.94
The aroma of this 7-year-old cognac reveals scents of ripe apricot, dried fig, cedar-wood, and vanilla, with a trace...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $23.34 $25.10
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $148.80
6 bottles: $145.82
Produced by Braastaad-Tiffon and named after the family’s castle, this “family reserve” is blended from Grande...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $117.10
6 bottles: $116.30
Aged 60 to 80 years, this blend clearly illustrates that Fin Bois is not a “lesser” appellation, but can age just...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $153.19
6 bottles: $152.40
Aged 50 to 80 years; less than 150 bottles released in any given year. Deep mahogany in color, offering complex...
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Grenache Cognac Ice Wine NV

The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.


For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.

For over three hundred years, Cognac has enjoyed its reputation as the king of brandies. Indeed, it is widely regarded as the finest drink to be distilled from grapes to be found anywhere in the world, and it is a testament to its producers and the master craftsmen who make it that this reputation has never faltered, and remains as strong as ever to this day.

Cognac is produced solely in the beautiful towns of Cognac and Jarnac, found about fifty miles north of Bordeaux, on the west coast of France. Here, around six thousand grape growers work exclusively in the production of white wine, used for the Cognac distilleries which are scattered throughout the region. The wines are made primarily from the Ugni Blanc or Trebbiano grape - one of the most commonly planted grape varietals in the world - which benefit from the cool, coastal climate and mineral rich soils which are found there. The wines themselves wouldn’t be suitable for drinking in themselves, as they are high in acid and low in alcohol, but this makes them ideal for distillation, and they can impart their wonderful, complex, rich flavors to the brandy.

Cognac varies quite significantly from bottle to bottle, depending on how long it has been aged for, and which appellation it comes from. The Cognac region is split into six separate Crus, all with their own distinctive characteristics, and the spirit can be aged from two years (VS) to six (Hors d’Age and Napoleon) and longer.