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White
750ml
Bottle: $10.99
The Alps defend Delle Venezie D.O.C., Italy from chilled northern winds, while heat from the Mediterranean creates...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $10.01
12 bottles: $9.51
Golden yellow in color with ripe apple, pear, and apricot aromas along with notes of wild flowers and honey. Medium...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.90 $14.57
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A fresh, well-cut white, offering modest flavors of apple, beeswax and almond skin. Hints of lemon zest and smoke...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $11.70
12 bottles: $11.47
Intense nose of apricot and cheese, derived from wild ferment and age on oak lees. Long dry finish with intense...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $9.51
This dry, crisp, and full-bodied white wine, made from 100% pinot grigio, is refreshing with balanced acidity and a...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
A rich pinot grigio with green mangoes, pears, apples, spring flowers and hints of vanilla and cream. It has a full...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $8.99
With its crisp, light character, bright straw gold color and appealing scents and fruit flavors, it’s no wonder...
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White
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $13.45 $14.16
This Pinot Grigio has aromas of wildflowers, peaches and pears. It has fresh, tropical flavors, that combined with a...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $9.99
Bright and crisp flavors of lemon and apple.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $9.99
Our Pinot Grigio is crafted from grapes sourced from the foothills of the Italian Alps, making for a uniquely...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.94
12 bottles: $18.56
This is spiced and tangy with notes of quince, dried herbs and citrus peel. Juicy acidity and a crisp, lemony...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $12.36 $13.01
On the palate, it is a complex wine that offers delicate floral and tropical fruit notes of pineapple, passion fruit...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.93 $14.73
Aromas of lemon drops and sliced pears with hints of citrus leaf and white flowers. Medium body. Textured and...
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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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White
750ml
Bottle: $19.85
Really fresh and pure on the nose with typical sliced apple and lime zest characters. Chalk and a hint of white...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $11.99
The nose shows succulent aromas of citrus blossom, honeydew melon, and key lime pie over layers of pear and creme...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $15.94
12 bottles: $15.62
Crisp yet luscious, with easygoing yet floral lemongrass and melon flavors. Drink now. 115,000 cases made.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.25
12 bottles: $15.92
Golden yellow in colour, often with copper tones. It has an intense and immediate bouquet with pronounced hints of...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.93 $18.32
Color: Pale yellow color with copper hints. Bouquet: The bouquet on the nose is fine and intense with typical notes...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $6.94
Our Pinot Grigio offers fresh citrus aromas and shines with notes of luminous pear and apple. This wine is made with...

Ice Wine Pinot Gris Savatiano Rapid Ship

The Pinot Grigio or Pinot Gris grape varietal is now one of the most widely grown vines in the world, due to the surge in popularity of Pinot Grigio wines over the past twenty years or so. These grayish-blue fruits, which hang in their distinctively conical bunches, are responsible for a very broad range of wines famous for their variety of color tones and flavors Pinot Grigio varietal grapes are highly influenced by terroir, climate and particularly the skill and expertise of the vintners who process them. As such, there are full bodied, amber colored wines made from this grape, and there are equally delicious yet far leaner, paler, lighter bodied and crisp white wines made from the same species in other parts of the world.

Savatiano is probably Greece's most well known and most widely grown grape varietal, as it is the primary grape used in the production of Retsina, where the fermenting juices of the Savatiano varietal are flavored with pine resin in order to make this distinctive and famous wine. One of the reasons for the wide cultivation of this grape is due to its hardiness, and resistance to drought conditions. In the sun-drenched and dry, rocky Greek landscapes, this makes it an ideal vine to grow for wine-makers who require a strong and bounteous yield each year.

However, there are plenty of examples of Greek white wines which use the Savatiano grape but withhold from the addition the pine resin flavoring, allowing the true characteristics of this varietal to shine through. The result is often very pleasing indeed, with Savatiano grapes generally producing extremely well balanced and rounded white wines, with a juicily fruity flavor. Their aromas can vary quite a lot, with many Savatiano wines bearing the fragrance of citrus fruits, and also occasionally having a strong floral aroma reminiscent of elder and rose. Due to the relatively low acidity of Savatiano grapes, the wines which use them (including Retsina) generally bolster themselves with the addition of smaller quantities of more acidic varieties, such as Assyrtiko or Rhoditis, in order to improve their sometimes weak structure.

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?