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White
750ml
Bottle: $36.48 $38.40
Beautiful lemon, tangerine, honey, green herbs, and white flower notes emerge from the 2018 Carricante Bianco...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $49.94 $54.00
The 2018 Carricante Centennial Mountain Vineyard is exotic, translucent and full of character. Lemon confit, orchard...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $22.40
12 bottles: $21.95
Color: Yellow straw colored. Nose: Floral with notes of grapefruit. Taste: Excellent sapidity.
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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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.44
12 bottles: $17.09
Notes of ripe, juicy, fleshy plum and ripe black cherry marry on the fruity nose. The palate follows through and...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $35.75 $36.40
12 bottles: $35.04
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $95.15 $97.79
Amazing depth of colour and outstanding red berry flavours, particularly strawberry, lend this red Icewine to pair...
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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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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $66.94 $74.20
The 2019 Gold Vidal Icewine was fermented and aged for about 14 weeks in 90% new French oak. It comes in with 272...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.00
12 bottles: $20.58
You could easily mistake this for a good pinot noir, thanks to the bright sour-cherry fruit and the velvety tannins,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.94
12 bottles: $17.58
The grapes for Reinisch's 2020 St. Laurent ripen in the vineyards in Tattendorf, whose warm, dry gravel soils are...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.00
12 bottles: $17.10
Red
750ml
Bottle: $69.94
Cinnamon and plum notes immediately reach the nose before a more pervasive, dark peony note makes itself felt. The...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $37.69 $41.70
White
750ml
Bottle: $26.00
12 bottles: $24.70
Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.93
12 bottles: $17.57
He bottled his `05s at the end of March, but this one didn't seem sick at all! I mean TAYSTEE juice here; a fragrance...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
He bottled his `05s at the end of March, but this one didn't seem sick at all! I mean TAYSTEE juice here; a fragrance...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $509.23
This definitive wine of pure Carricante is given extensive contact on the lees, without wood, taking its structure...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $354.71
A lovely nose of fresh flowers, lemon grass, blood orange, baked pear and toasted thyme. Medium-bodied with plenty of...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $312.93
Lemon, pineapple and confected fruit on the nose. Lots of lime. It’s dry and light-bodied with a blanched-almond...
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Aidani Carricante Ice Wine Mencia

One of the most ancient of the Greek grape varietals, Aidani has been cultivated on and around the Cyclades for millennia for its versatility and gently pleasing aromatic qualities. Wines made primarily with Aidani grapes tend to have a milder alcohol content than other classic Greek wines, and relatively low acidity. This makes Aidani wines a perfectly pleasant accompaniment to a wide range of traditional Greek foods, and equally pleasant to drink chilled at any time under the Greek sun. Nowadays, Aidani grapes are mostly likely to used as a blending grape, often being mixed with Assyrtiko grapes to balance out and mellow the acidity and high alcohol content found in them.

As a blending grape, the Aidani offers light, delicate floral tones, often reminiscent of a Muscat. On the island of Naxos, it has been traditionally blended with the Athiri grape to produce the island's signature sweet wine, Apiranthos, where the subtleties of the Aidani grape are really allowed to shine through. However, elsewhere in Greece you are far more likely to find the blend of these two distinctive grapes in dry white wines, where the Aidani is used primarily not for its flavor, but for its aroma and mellowing effect.

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?