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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $23.26 $24.48
This spirit is amber in color and exhibits nutty, caramel notes on the nose. The palate has subtle hints of citrus...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $69.60
This silky single-vineyard Cognac hits all the right notes, layering rounded vanilla, sherry and butterscotch with...
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Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $26.58
Especially, delicate and floral, attractive to the nose and pleasant to the palate. Its fresh and juicy character is...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $37.01 $38.96
Intensely aromatic and opulent on the nose with notes of cedar, milk chocolate, golden raisin, and stewed apricot....
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Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $20.96 $22.06
Sumptuous confectionary aromas of chocolate orange, salted caramel, vanilla, almond butter, and orange peel. The...
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Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $40.31
12 bottles: $38.29
Sumptuous confectionary aromas of chocolate orange, salted caramel, vanilla, almond butter, and orange peel. The...
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Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $26.99
Hennessy Very Special (V.S) is one of the most popular cognacs in the world. Matured in new oak barrels, Hennessy V.S...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $39.90 $42.00
Hennessy Very Special (V.S) is one of the most popular cognacs in the world. Matured in new oak barrels, Hennessy V.S...
Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $33.47
Aromas of apricot, honeysuckle, and fresh fig overlie rich buttery, baked notes on the nose. The palate presents as a...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $70.99 $76.94
This is a glorious icewine where acidity and sugar are in perfect harmony. The candied orange peel, ginger, straw and...
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Rapid Ship
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: $45.21 $51.67
Excellent, Highly Recommended (Tried & True) - 2020 ULTIMATE SPIRITS CHALLENGE
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92
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Rapid Ship
Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $102.60 $108.00
Martingale is fresh, fragrant, and refined; offering an exquisite balance of complexity and smoothness. True to...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $50.39
Light, crisp and mixable if so desired, this brandy is scented with aromas of golden raisin and honey. On the palate,...
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92
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $203.20 $213.90
This ancient brandy shows beautiful and powerful aromas of candied mint, white flowers, yellow plum reduction, and...
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95
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Rapid Ship
Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $57.96 $66.24
Delicate vanilla and baking spice aromas lead into a butterscotch-tinged palate. Soft mocha fades into ginger and...
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93
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93
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $16.68
12 bottles: $15.85
Clean and focused with blackberry and dark-bark aromas and flavors. Medium to full body and firm, creamy tannins with...
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Grenache Cognac Ice Wine In-Store or Curbside pickup

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.