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White
750ml
Bottle: $45.00
• 100% Palomino. • From a less-than-one-hectare parcel of 80-year-old vines planted in slate at high altitude....
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Red
1.0Ltr
Bottle: $15.94
12 bottles: $15.62
The Berger liter of Zweigelt is an unbelievable value red wine. Made in the same style as the Gru?ner Liter, but aged...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.30
12 bottles: $14.01
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $17.50
The 2021 Zweigelt was grown on the southern edge of Kamptal on alluvial gravels. Subtle reduction is still smoky and...
VM
89
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $7.88 $11.25
Zweigelt is a crossing between Blaufränkisch and St. Laurent created by Dr. Fritz Zweigelt at the Klosterneuburg in...
Red
1.0Ltr
Bottle: $18.94
12 bottles: $18.56
Rich and plummy quite lush for a ‘basic’ Liter wine, with almost a New World fleshiness.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.94
12 bottles: $18.56
The 2022 Palomino El Muelle de Olaso is sourced from the renowned El Corregidor Estate in Jerez. It underwent 80%...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $21.60
12 bottles: $21.17
• 100% Palomino (from several different heritage clones). • Sourced from 60-plus year-old vines in La Mendoza, a...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.89 $19.60
12 bottles: $18.62
Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94
12 bottles: $16.60
Also a month in bottle, but it's more round and also less sweet; in fact this is a mannerly fellow with a certain...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.25 $15.00
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $19.38
Violet-reddish in color. Aromas of cherry, dark berries, herbs and spices. On the palate it is balanced with firm...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $15.83
Deep purple in color with aromas of fresh cherries and clean earth. Medium bodied on the palate with flavors of black...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $18.28
Deep purple in color with aromas of fresh cherries and clean earth. Medium bodied on the palate with flavors of black...
White
750ml
Bottle: $20.40
12 bottles: $19.99
One hundred per cent Listán Blanco (aka Palomino Fino) from ungrafted vines. These vines are pergola-trained and...
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Red
1.0Ltr
Bottle: $12.94 $14.30
12 bottles: $12.68
This is bottled and made in the shared Buchegger-Mayr winery. 100% Zweigelt, grown in loess soils. The fruit is...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.94
12 bottles: $17.58
Quite a rich and earthy wine with plenty of spice and savoriness, but also generous blueberry fruit. Underlying this...
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90
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $16.94
Case only
Long-term Pre-Arrival
White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $64.57
This wine should confirm the deepest revolution in Jerez. It is a wine singing a particular terroir, while allowing...
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98
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96

Sherry Robola Zweigelt

Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.

Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.

Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.

In the mountains of Cephalonia, the mineral rich soils assist in the growing of one of the finest of Greece's white grape varietals – the Robola grape. These noble yellowish grapes are notable for the wines they produce, which generally contain summer fruits, peach and citrus aromas, coupled with flavors which extend beyond the usual range of white wines, revealing smoky and mineral notes, and a lengthy, lemony after-taste. These fine characteristics helped the regions it is grown in gain AOC status, and wine-makers in this area have many generations of practice in bringing out the elegant and subtle characteristics of this grape.

Robola, and the other wines of Cephalonia have a long and illustrious history, being mentioned even in ancient epic poems such as Homer's Iliad. However, it was the Venetians who first recognized the great potential of Robola grapes, which quickly became the focus for the areas wine-makers and tradesmen. Nowadays, Robola wines act as an excellent example of a refined Greek dry white wine, which can be either drank as a light and refreshing summer aperitif, or alongside grilled white meats, salads, or white fish. Robola wines, as a rule, do not age particularly well, and it is highly recommended that bottles are drunk young, within two years of bottling. By doing so, you can enjoy the unique characteristics of this remarkable wine, complete with the balanced combination of chalky, smoky citrus flavors and delicate peach aromas which typify the finest examples of Robola varietal wines.

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?