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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $20.52 $21.60
6 bottles: $20.40
Color: Golden amber. Nose: Fragrant peaches upfront. Body: Savory peach flavors, immediately followed by vanilla and...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $20.52 $21.60
6 bottles: $20.40
Gold color. Aromas of roasted peanuts, toasted coconut, corn fritters, and reese’s pieces with a round, lively,...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $19.20
6 bottles: $18.00
Color: Golden amber. Nose: Inviting flavors of pecans and brown sugar. Body: A melting richness exists throughout...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $18.24 $19.20
6 bottles: $18.00
Bird Dog S’mores Whiskey has a perfect blend of chocolate, graham cracker, and marshmallow flavors – just like...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $20.52 $21.60
6 bottles: $20.40
Gold color. Aromas of toasted banana muffin, hints of sweet apple compote, toffee, and strawberry preserves with a...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $20.52 $21.60
6 bottles: $20.40
Color: Golden Amber. Nose: Sweet, fresh strawberries and a hint of rich bourbon. Body: Vibrant strawberry mixed with...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $42.57 $44.81
A collaboration between iconic heavy metal band Metallica and the late Master Distiller Dave Pickerell, this is a...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $69.07 $72.71
6 bottles: $57.59
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750ml
Bottle: $14.73
12 bottles: $13.99
The classic varietal characteristics—floral aromas and lychee fruit flavors—show up in abundance in this...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.94
12 bottles: $17.58
• Gewurztraminer. • Sourced from a 2HA plot planted in 1995-2012. • Calcareous clay soils. • Hand harvested....
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $57.89 $60.94
6 bottles: $57.34
Boondocks American Whiskey Cask Strength 118 Proof has distinctive aromas of rich caramel and vanilla. A robust and...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $41.42 $43.60
6 bottles: $35.73
Aged in American white oak barrels previously used to age bourbon Boondocks American Whiskey is made from corn, rye...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $12.94 $14.30
12 bottles: $12.68
40g/RS so yes, a Gewürz with a little sweetness. It’s also miraculously light on its feet and actually has acid....
White
750ml
Bottle: $13.95
12 bottles: $12.35
40g/RS so yes, a Gewürz with a little sweetness. It’s also miraculously light on its feet and actually has acid....
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.85 $17.50
12 bottles: $16.63
If you love Riesling (as we do) you will also love Gewürztraminer.
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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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $28.49 $29.99
6 bottles: $23.99
SWEET START TO A SMOOTH NIGHT. BSB-Brown Sugar Bourbon is our OG classic. The smooth whiskey flavor warms up the...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $24.79 $26.10
6 bottles: $20.20
Infused with burnt sugar flavor, Bubba's BS Burnt Sugar Whiskey delivers a unique taste experience to any party....
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $24.79 $26.10
6 bottles: $20.20
Lock up the taste of Bubba's with Bubba's MC Marshmallow Chocolate Whiskey. Whether as a shot or in a drink with...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $55.18 $58.08
6 bottles: $54.00
The first single malt from Bulleit is made with 100% malted barley (like Scotch) and is aged in new American oak...
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American Whiskey Grenache Gewurztraminer Ice Wine

The United States of America is a country of great cultural diversity, influenced by migrating nations from across the world. As such, its whiskey industry is a fascinating and complex one, which represents the range of regional differences found there.

The Irish were the original pioneers of American whiskey, and when they emigrated in their thousands from the old country, they brought their skills, knowledge and distillation techniques with them, to give them something to remind each other of home in the New World. This is why American whiskey goes by the Irish spelling, with the additional ‘e’, and why many traditional American whiskies closely resemble the original Irish style.

Today, there are several different types of American whiskey, and the styles and production techniques are now set out in US federal law, cementing a set of characteristics and production methods to preserve and protect the industry.

Corn whiskey, which is made from a minimum 80% corn in the mash and aged for a short period, is probably the most historic of the American whiskey styles, but others like rye whiskey, which is made from a minimum of 51% rye and aged in charred barrels, are growing in popularity among a new generation of drinkers looking for something unique, interesting and independently produced. Alongside these styles, we find Tennessee whiskey, which uses maple charcoal for sweeter notes, the softer wheat whiskies, the world-dominating Bourbon whiskies, and others which are peculiar to specific states and regions.

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.

Gewurztraminer is renowned for being a particularly tricky grape varietal to grow and cultivate, but is one which plenty of wineries persevere with due to its unique properties and excellent flavors The vines themselves are highly robust, and can even be unruly when in the correct type of soil, but they cannot grow well in terroirs which contain chalk or other similar components. They are also extremely susceptible to a wide range of diseases and rot, and due to their early budding and fruiting, they cannot survive frost. However, despite these problems, in cooler climates and on the right terroir, the Gewurztraminer grape varietal produces wonderful results quite unlike any other vine. The pink grapes are packed full of elegant and sweet flavors, their relatively high sugar content offering a light sweetness alongside floral notes, perfumed and aromatic aromas, and a distinctive taste of lychees.