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$22.61
$23.80
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$14.73
Bella Sera's Pinot Grigio is crisp and refreshing with citrus aromas and flavors of ripe apple and pear. It is...
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$25.81
$27.17
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$16.68
The Basics Perfect for the hot days and warm nights of summer. The Taste Has a refreshing bite of juicy white peach...
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$21.85
$23.00
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$13.87
A fresh, easy-drinking Pinot Grigio from one of the top value producers in Italy. Light, crisp notes of apple and...
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$16.94
This delicious Pinot Grigio is full of flavor with bright notes of honey, apple and wildflowers. It is fresh, clean...
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$28.08
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$18.40
Our Pinot Grigio is well-structured, and sophisticated. Aromas of fresh apple, hints of orange zest, and white...
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$24.51
$25.80
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$16.25
With a soft and elegant mouthfeel, this wine has deep flavors of rich cherries and jammy blackberries, followed by...
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$26.41
$27.80
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$18.34
Dry, crisp, vibrant texture with delicate aromas of white fruit, flowers and almonds.
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$31.12
$32.76
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$18.40
Delightfully fresh and intense. A full-bodied, fruity, varietal wine.
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$27.17
$28.60
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$18.40
Fragrant hints of floral cultivate a pleasantly sweet aroma alongside the fresh Meyer lemon and ripe tropical fruits....
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$12.99
With its crisp, light character, bright straw gold color and appealing scents and fruit flavors, it’s no wonder...
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$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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$9.99
Our Pinot Grigio is a medium-bodied wine filled with aromas of wildflowers, peaches and pears. Fresh, tropical...
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$21.09
$22.20
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$13.00
Light yellow and green tones wine with a fresh aroma, evoking pear and Apple notes. Soft, round, with a pleasant and...
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Cora is an exciting proprietary label made for David Bowler Wine with fruit sourced from vineyards in the Abruzzo...
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$22.23
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Melon de Bourgogne Pinot Gris Savatiano 1.5Ltr
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 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
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