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White
750ml
Bottle: $29.88 $31.20
12 bottles: $29.64
The 2021 Grenache Blanc Thompson Vineyard is bright and beautifully focused. Orchard fruit, mint, white pepper and...
VM
93
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $47.16 $52.40
Colour: Lively, deep ruby-red; nature's gift. Perfume: Complex scent of ripe red fruit (mainly black cherry), spices,...
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White
5.0Ltr
Bottle: $19.94
Crisp with flavors of apple and pineapple. semi-sweet and refreshing with floral aromas. Serve Chilled.
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $35.00
Ripe pineapple, papaya, and slatey minerality on the nose. Intense but well-balanced tropical fruit flavors on the...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $11.71 $13.01
This refreshing wine has fruity and citrus aromas with notes of lemon and mineral hints. Fresh and light on the...
White
750ml
Bottle: $27.95
12 bottles: $27.39
Catarratto (biotypes Lucido, Comune, and Catarratteddo) from the contradas of Bausa, Amafi, and Abbadessa, guyot and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $19.38 $20.40
• Kyoho. • Hybrid of V. vinifera and V. labrusca. • The only vineyard in Australia producing Kyoho and was...
White
750ml
Bottle: $28.94
12 bottles: $28.36
• Telti Kuruk, an indigenous varietal of Ukraine. • The vineyards are situated on a mixture of red clay and loam...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.94
12 bottles: $29.34
• 100% Carignan. • Practicing Organic. • Poor Ranch Vyd (mult-generational family owned on benchland outside...
White
750ml
Bottle: $18.95
12 bottles: $18.57
Hints of beeswax, dusty yellow flowers and cardamom waft up to create a decidedly savory bouquet as the 2020. Insolia...
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90
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $26.00
White flower aromas such as jasmine combine with faintly tropical fruit and a dairy hint to the nose. On the palate,...
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750ml
Bottle: $22.40
12 bottles: $21.28
• Primarily Garnacha with smaller complements of Bobal and Royal, from very old organically-farmed vineyards. •...
WA
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $65.94
The acidity of the Riesling grape keeps this sweet dessert wine in balance with notes of honey and caramel.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $26.93 $29.92
A light touch of vanilla frames the honey, peach and salty, mineral flavors in this lively white. Fine balance and...
WS
90
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.25 $13.95
12 bottles: $10.45
A harmonious blend of enticing fruit with a soft, distinctive finish to complement poultry and light sauces.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $12.44 $13.09
12 bottles: $9.51
An elegant German-style wine, with delicate floral aromas yielding to a long smooth finish.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $19.08 $21.20
When young, it is fresh, linear and furnished with great sophistication and elegance with delicate hints of white...
White
750ml
Bottle: $17.84
12 bottles: $17.48
100% Albillo Real from small plots around the village of San Martin de Valdeiglesias. The various plots are planted...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.94
6 bottles: $29.34
Colour: Deep, almost solid ruby red. Nose: Intense fruity notes of blackberry, blueberry, vanilla, myrtle, leather...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $45.28
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Carignan Grenache Ice Wine Mencia

Carignan is an ancient blue-skinned grape varietal, thought to be indigenous to the Aragon region of Spain. However, today it is most commonly associated with the fine wines of southern France, and has been grown in many countries around the world which have the warm and dry conditions it requires to thrive. Carignan is recognized as being quite a sensitive vine, highly susceptible to all kinds of rot and mildew, although producing excellent results when given the right conditions and handled correctly. Its high tannin levels and acidity make the Carignan grapes very astringent, and as such, they are often used as a blending grape to give body to other, lesser bodied varietals. Despite this, with careful treatment, Carignan can produce superb single varietal wines packed full of character and unique attributes.

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.