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Bottle: $29.90
Sweet-berry and tar aromas with cherries and ripe strawberries. Full-bodied with round and relitively soft tannins...
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Bottle: $66.03
A classic Barolo with power and finesse. Black currant bound up in rich tannins with promising leather and tobacco...
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Bottle: $99.99
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Sweet fruit with cherry, toffee, chocolate and walnut character. Asphalt, too. It’s medium-to full-bodied with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $75.99
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Plenty of dried-orange and berry character with hints of chocolate and coffee. Medium to full body with chewy tannins...
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Red
750ml
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A tight, focused Barolo with gorgeous dried-strawberry and cherry character and hints of vanilla and hazelnuts....
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Red
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Bottle: $1194.95 $1310.44
Roses and lavender with other flowers. Peaches. Glorious fruit of dark plums and ripe strawberries. This is dense and...
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Red
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Bottle: $2794.95
Roses and lavender with other flowers. Peaches. Glorious fruit of dark plums and ripe strawberries. This is dense and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $598.83 $654.80
Roses and lavender with other flowers. Peaches. Glorious fruit of dark plums and ripe strawberries. This is dense and...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $48.00
The "Terlo Gold Label" Barolo is sourced from the Camerano family's, perfectly exposed, "Terlo" Vineyard, the oldest...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $54.84
12 bottles: $53.74
The 2017 Ghemme Collis Breclemae handled the rigors of the year better than some of the other wines in the range. It...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $97.20
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This Riserva blends notes of eucalyptus and berries with spicy hints of liquorice and tobacco. Enveloping the palate...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $80.80
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Iris, violet, leather and ripe dark-skinned fruit aromas come to the forefront alongside a tobacco note. The big,...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $40.80
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $56.78
Perfumed cherry and sour red cherry with truffle and leather. Rich and quite dense, firm tannins give structure and...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $88.14
Intense garnet red. Powerful yet elegant nose with hints of ripe fruits, apricot, and blackberries. Delicate vanilla...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $77.55
6 bottles: $76.00
Plum, berry, dried-flower and light rose-stem aromas follow through to a full body with firm, rounded tannins and a...
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Red
750ml
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A juicy red with dried strawberry and orange peel, as well as cedar and spice undertones. It’s medium-to...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $75.69
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Full and intense, with red and black berries on a well-balanced palate with supportive but non-aggressive tannins...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $51.84
The 2017 Barolo is a very pretty, gracious Barolo that will drink well upon release. Aromatic and lifted, but with...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $53.58
The 2017 Barolo del Commune di Monforte d’Alba is a gorgeous, beguiling wine. Readers will find a Barolo that...
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Melon de Bourgogne Nebbiolo Port Blend 2017

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.

The Nebbiolo grape varietal is widely understood to be the fruit responsible for Italy's finest aged wines. However, its popularity and reliability as a grape which gives out outstanding flavors and aromas has led it to be planted in many countries around the world, with much success. These purple grapes are distinguishable by the fact that they take on a milky dust as they begin to reach maturity, leading many to claim that this is the reason for their unusual name, which means 'fog' in Italian. Nebbiolo grapes produce wines which have a wide range of beautiful and fascinating flavors, the most common of which are rich, dark and complex, such as violet, truffle, tobacco and prunes. They are generally aged for many years to balance out their characteristics, as their natural tannin levels tend to be very high.

Port wine is Portugal’s great gift to the world. Coming from the ancient harbour capital city of Porto and the surrounding Douro Valley region, Port wine has been made by Portuguese vintners for at least four hundred years, although viticulture has been continually happening in the area for well over two thousand years. Port is a fortified wine, meaning it is a wine which has been bolstered by the addition of grape brandy. Originally, this was used as a method of preservation, allowing the delicate Portuguese wines to survive the journey by sea to trading partners in the UK and France. However, the wonderful taste and unique character the fortification process lends to the wine soon became massively popular, and before long, this new wine style was a hit all across Europe.


Unlike some other fortified wines, Port is made by adding brandy before the wine itself has completed its fermentation. The result of this is that plenty of the grapes’ natural sweetness is maintained in the barrel, meaning it is exceptionally smooth and rounded on the palate. Port comes in many different styles - Tawny Port wines are prized for their richness and mellow character, Reserve and Late Bottled Ports are full of fruit flavor. Vintage Port is a complex, wonderful thing - capable of standing up to some of the finest wines in the world when it comes to depth of flavor and fascinating features.