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9diDANTE’s journey through Dante’s Divine Comedy reaches the celestial spheres of Heaven, with an original recipe...
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As the first ever vermouth to be blended exclusively from 100% Arneis DOC wine, PURGATORIO continues to pledge...
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Blended from equal parts Dolcetto Red and Cortese White Piedmont wines, we have developed this orginial recipe to...
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750ml
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This vermouth leads with notes of citrus zest, followed by flavors of bay leaf, lemon grass, cucumber, lanolin,...
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750ml
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Caramel in color, this vermouth leads with woodsy notes of balsam and clove and follow with warm flavors of walnut...
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750ml
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Copper-orange color. Knockout, endlessly complex perfume of orange blossom, cinnamon Red Hots, clove, ginger and...
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White
750ml
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Landing on the more bitter end of the vermouth spectrum, almost feeling like a cross between sweet vermouth and...
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750ml
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The Tement wines make up the base wine for the Vermouth and the brandies are made by Manfred Tement's friend, Alois...
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375ml
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Rather than seeking out the exotic, often imported botanicals that go into more modern styled gins and vermouth of...
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375ml
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The decision was made to produce a vermouth that was “of the garden,” packed with fresh rosemary, bay laurel,...
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750ml
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Barolo Chinato is a venerated category of Piedmontese spirit that stylistically sits between a vermouth and an amaro....
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Atamán vermouth, produced primarily using Manzanillas from the historic Angioletti and El Toro wineries that are...
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Atamán vermouth, produced primarily using Manzanillas from the historic Angioletti and El Toro wineries that are...
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750ml
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FOOD PAIRING | Matches very well with bobotie, game and curries, spare ribs and pepper steak, or try snoek and grape...
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Concentrated aromas of black cherries, Christmas cake, wild strawberries, plums and cinnamon spice. The nose has that...
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Complex aroma with a predominance of ripe fruit; notes of honey, cinnamon, (thyme and rosemary) with a pleasant nutty...
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Very complex fruit aroma, notes of underbrush, honey, cinnamon, thyme and rosemary with a finish marked by dry nuts....
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Red
750ml
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The spirit of braai is captured in this Pinotage, South Africa’s only native grape that is a hybrid between Pinot...
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750ml
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Brilliant red colour; with the first sip it fully releases the traditional taste that derives from the typical bitter...

Melon de Bourgogne Moschofilero Pinotage Vermouth

One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.


Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing with a wide range of foods.

Greece has many AOC regions, each with their own signature grape varietal which is cultivated and processed to an exceptionally high degree of excellence. The AOC of Mantinia on the beautiful expansive plateau of the Peloponnese has the Moschofilero varietal, a gray colored white variety which produces exceptional Blanc de Gris wines. A delicate grape, highly sensitive to adverse weather conditions, it is nonetheless prized by wine makers for its unique attributes and the quality of the wine which can be made from it. Although commonly compared to western European Muscat wines, the Moschofilero grapes produce wine which is in a league of its own – full of floral aromas containing heavy, almost soporific notes of rose petals and violets. The flavor of the wine tends to be spicy, and leans more towards earthy mineral flavors rather than fruit ones, making it perfect as an aperitif or coupled with salty olives and cheeses.

Moschofilero wines tend to be elegant and subtle, with their strength being in their crispness, and the bouquet of floral aromas rising from the glass. The finest Moschofilero wines to come out of Greece in recent decades have included the Tselopos, whose high altitude vineyards have seemingly mastered the potential and complexity of this gray grape to international acclaim.

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?

Pinotage is the signature grape varietal of South Africa, and is the most widely grown grape in the country, as well as being common in several other countries around the world. It is a viticultural cross of two fine grape varietals, the Pinot Noir and the Cinsaut (known as Hermitage in South Africa, hence the portmanteau name), and is notable for the fact that it produces excellent and flavorful wines of a deep red color The flavors most commonly associated with Pinotage wines are generally smoky in nature, with notes ranging from dark bramble fruits, to plum, mulberry and earthy characteristics. However, it often also includes quite tropical flavors of stewed banana. The Pinotage varietal is a versatile one, and is often used for producing fortified and sparkling wines, as well as the more common still red wines.