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$175.20
Grilled bread with flowers, pears and apples. Lots of perfumes. Lavender and some herbs and nutmeg. The palate is...
750ml - Case of 3
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$457.94
A fragrant, appealing Champagne, with wafts of elderflower and medicinal herbs on the nose, followed by expressive...
750ml - 1 Bottle
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$1576.20
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Bollinger Champagne La Grande Annee 2005
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$143.77
Impressive concentration and power here. This is really assertive with ripe yellow orchard fruits and citrus within a...
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Bollinger Champagne La Grande Annee Rose 2005
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$234.45
A good rest on lees in the cellar through to May 2015 has seen this salmon-colored rosé develop a wealth of dried...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$108.55
Pale in color, but rich in texture and fruit, this wonderfully mature rosé is structured from 70% Pinot Noir in the...
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Dom Perignon Champagne Brut 2005
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle:
$509.95
I believe that the 2005 DP is the best since 2002, which remains the best recent vintage and is probably only...
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Dom Perignon Champagne Brut Rose 2005
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$424.33
A mind-blowing wine. This is super subtle and intense with aromas of peaches, light strawberry and cream. Also shows...
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Dom Perignon Champagne Brut Rose 2005
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$420.73
A mind-blowing wine. This is super subtle and intense with aromas of peaches, light strawberry and cream. Also shows...
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Dom Perignon Champagne Brut Rose Luminous 2005
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$504.95
A mind-blowing wine. This is super subtle and intense with aromas of peaches, light strawberry and cream. Also shows...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$761.78
Disgorged in July 2014, Francis Egly's 2005 Brut Grand Cru Millésime is a brilliant wine in this middling vintage,...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$96.38
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Henriot Champagne Cuvee Hemera 2005
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$238.23
Rich hints of baked plum and marzipan are enlivened by sleek, well-knit acidity in this harmonious Champagne. The...
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Louis Roederer Champagne Cristal Brut 2005
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$320.08
Fabulous nose with great blood orange intensity neatly framed by brioche. On the extravagant and concentrated palate...
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Paul Bara Champagne Grand Cru Annonciade 2005
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$138.62
In 1833, Annonciade, the daughter of a winemaker from Bouzy, married Auguste François Bara, a young cooper from the...
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Philipponnat Champagne Le Clos Des Goisses 2005
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$177.62
A truly special site, this is a majestic Champagne that has superb darker notes of brulée, roasted almonds and...
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Pommery Champagne Brut Cuvee Louise 2005
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$210.71
Grilled bread with flowers, pears and apples. Lots of perfumes. Lavender and some herbs and nutmeg. The palate is...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$149.28
A warm, sunny year produced this concentrated, elegant wine with refined aromas of ripe apple and quince, fresh...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$253.95
The 2005 Comtes de Champagne Rosé is a wine of contrasts. At first rich and vinous on the palate, the 2005 turns...
Champagne Blend Grenache Mencia 2005
The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.
The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.
For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.