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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.08
12 bottles: $17.72
Fresh and clean with green-apple and lemon character. Hints of dried apricots. Medium body. Some lime. Easy finish....
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White
750ml
Bottle: $25.20
12 bottles: $24.70
Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $42.85
6 bottles: $36.92
NOSE: Ripe vine, orchard fruit, nice floral and citrus notes, complimented with pastry notes. TASTE: Fruit on the...
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $48.40
6 bottles: $44.32
NOSE: Extremely complex, with a wide variety of aromas to honey suckle, rose petals, hibiscus, tropical fruits,...
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $35.88
6 bottles: $30.00
NOSE: Pear, red apples, fresh cut grass complimented with dry fruit and pastry notes, fresh cream and cacao, balanced...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $20.14 $21.20
12 bottles: $17.42
Dark cherry, plum and cassis flavors, with rich cinnamon, herb and coffee notes. Full flavored grilled or sauced...
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: $39.94 $43.09
Pretty date, caramel and hazelnut husk notes meld nicely, showing good cut through the ginger- and toasted...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.85 $15.94
The non-vintage Rainwater Medium Dry is aged for three years in oak casks and this was bottled in January 2011. It...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $15.17
12 bottles: $14.87
A refreshing delight, Cantina Gabriele Malvasia carries a sweet and easy to drink composition. With sweet and spicy...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $17.14 $18.04
The scent reads as fruity and a touch smoky; on the tongue, it's surprisingly sweet, finishing long and fruity, with...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $35.34 $37.20
The perfect balance of aromatics and texture, we blend multiple grape varietals to make our family flagship, the...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $33.06 $34.80
Ripe banana, hay, tea leafs, carrots, marzipan.
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $27.64 $29.09
Exquisite and floral on the nose, with deeper, earthy tones reminiscent of overripe tropical melon and underbrush....
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90
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $35.24 $37.09
Beautiful caramel copper color with an inviting aroma of grilled grape, graham cracker, split oak, toasted rye, and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $22.40
12 bottles: $21.95
COLOR Pale straw yellow color NOSE The bouquet on the nose is delicately sweet, with floraland fruity notes of citrus...
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White
375ml
Bottle: $33.12
6 bottles: $32.46
COLOR: Golden yellow with amber highlights. NOSE: Nose of honey, apricot, citrus and dried figs. FLAVOR: Balanced and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $24.72
6 bottles: $24.23
The 2020 Secca del Capo is sweetly scented with exotic florals, green melon and candied ginger. It’s soft and round...
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $18.24 $19.20
Pisco Diablo Reservado will allow you to enjoy an intense and authentic distillate, perfect for creating incredible...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $36.94 $38.88
6 bottles: $34.80

Ice Wine Malvasia Mavrodaphne Pisco

In the Archaea region, high in the Northern Peloponnese mountains, the predominant grape varietal grown is the prized Mavrodaphne. Meaning 'Black Laurel', the Mavrodaphne grapes have extremely dark skins, and ripen slowly under the Greek sunshine, helped by the mineral rich soils the vines thrive in. This grape varietal is mostly used to produce the opaque, inky fortified wine of the same name, which is popular all over Greece and elsewhere in the world. This fortified wine allows the grapes to really show off their complex and fascinating flavors, which range from a rich marzipan to flavors of bitter chocolate, sweet coffee, dried figs and prunes, as well as plenty of jammy fruit notes.

Mavrodaphne is produced in a traditional method which involves leaving the grape juice exposed to the sun in large vats, before having its fermentation halted by the addition of various distillates taken from previous successful vintages. This mixture contains plenty of residual sugar, which gives the end result its characteristic sticky sweetness, and also helps with the next fermentation process, which typically takes place in large underground cellars. The final product is a heady drink, absolutely bursting with unusual, rich and sweet flavors and carried in a dark and slightly viscous Port-like liquid.

Mavrodaphne grapes are also used for the production of still red wines, but are generally blended with varietals such as Agiorgitiko or imported grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon. Mavrodaphne grapes are excellent for mellowing more acidic varieties, and producing deliciously rounded wines, which have taken the international market by storm in recent decades.

Additional Information on Greek Wines


Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?