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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
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....
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $23.94
This Blaufränkisch is bursting with strength: after 12 months in wood, it shows ripe cherry fruit, dark berry jam...
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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...
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: $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 - 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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Blaufrankisch Sherry Mencia 2020

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.