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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.44 $21.20
12 bottles: $20.03
Leading with fresh plums and blueberries with vivid violet scents, the wine evolves from its bright and fruity core...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $119.49
Plenty of blackberry and licorice aromas are married to excellent ripeness on the palate. However, this impressive...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.94
12 bottles: $17.58
Elegance, drinkability and fruit are the focus while tannin, power and spice remain satisfied in supporting roles....
Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.00
12 bottles: $17.10
Elegance, drinkability and fruit are the focus while tannin, power and spice remain satisfied in supporting roles....
Red
750ml
Bottle: $154.94
Released only now, Georg Prieler’s 2013 Blaufränkisch Ried Marienthal Oggau am Neusiedlersee displays a dark and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $110.94
Ripe blackberry fruit is married to some chocolate and coffee. Quite an imposing tannin structure, but nothing is...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $24.94
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $19.11
Cool aromas of blueberry and flint on the nose with ample and juicy fruit on the palate. Silky and lush in texture...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $34.10
Rich and intriguing, this is in an almost sleepy stage at the moment. With some air, this unwraps many different...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $12.90
Dark ruby with a violet rim, with notes of strawberries and wild berries. The palate has well-integrated tannins with...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.20
12 bottles: $17.10
There is a gamey quality to this red, which adds character, underscoring the flavors of bluberry, rhubarb and spice....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.40
12 bottles: $19.99
The winery named this Blaufränkisch after family fathers Béla Wachter and Jóska Wiesler; the fruit is from each...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $30.00
12 bottles: $29.40
Wachter-Wiesler began bottling two village-level wines, offering a middle ground between the Bela-Joska which gives a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $48.60
12 bottles: $47.63
A very special single vineyard of 50-year-old vines with a sandy clay top soil and sand and gravel in the subsoil....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $42.94
12 bottles: $42.08
The darkest forest berries and the best licorice meet in this deep, rooty blaufrankisch that is spectacularly...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.94
12 bottles: $20.52
Glazter’s vineyards are predominately South-facing and are all around the village of Göttlesbrunn, where the...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $88.14
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $135.77
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $51.70
Focused and sleek, with aromas ranging from sour cherry to savory and candied orange. Quite compact structure, but...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $108.67
Inky ruby. Rich bouquet offers black cherry, orange zest and sage. Concentrated and firm, showng more depth than the...
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Red Blaufrankisch Grappa Mencia

Like so many of the great spirits of Europe, Grappa was born from a need to make resources go that little bit further, to eke out the last drop of flavor and potential from the crops of winemakers. Indeed, Italian vintners invented Grappa as a way to make use of the pomace - leftover grape skins, stems, pulp and seeds - which remained after the juice was extracted from the fruit needed to make wine. Over the centuries, the process was refined, and the distillation of Grappa became an art in itself. Today, top Grappa producers use a range of state of the art equipment, from continuous stills to pot stills, to manufacture a wide variety of Grappas, each with their own distinct characteristics.


Most of us know Grappa from our local Italian restaurants, where it is commonly served as a digestif. However, in the twenty first century, there is a high interest in unique, boutique Grappas, which showcase the talent of the distillers through a range of interesting qualities. Grappa can be aged in oak, in which case it takes on a beautiful golden color, quite different from the clear Grappas we are most familiar with. The high end Grappas are a world away from the harsh spirit many of us have encountered, and have a smooth, gentle quality which can be nothing short of a revelation.