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$36.44
$38.36
6 bottles:
$27.20
Leather, black plum and cassis aromas carry the nose of this wine. The full-bodied palate brings jammy blackberry and...
750ml
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$19.45
12 bottles:
$19.06
Aromas of dark cherries, charred wood, bark and mushrooms. It’s medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins and an...
750ml
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$27.89
$30.00
Fermented with native yeast and aged in concrete for six months and then moved to French oak (mostly used) for an...
750ml - Case of 12
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$18.23
This wine is brilliantly elegant, generous, and fruity. It has a deep, subtle color with purple highlights, smooth...
750ml
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$19.87
$22.08
12 bottles:
$17.81
A firm, silky red with berry, chocolate and light walnut aromas and flavors. Medium body. Medium chewy tannins and a...
750ml
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$74.90
6 bottles:
$73.40
The intense and high-pitched 2018 Aluvional Gualtallary has finesse, which is the challenge in this very wild zone of...
750ml
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$82.45
There's more fruit in the 2018 Aluvional Los Chacayes than in the 2017, as if the cooler year delivered more red...
750ml
Bottle:
$79.85
6 bottles:
$78.25
I loved the 2018 Aluvional Paraje Altamira at first sight. There's a bit more of everything, more aromatic...
750ml
Bottle:
$154.90
6 bottles:
$151.80
Aromas of crushed fruit with mushrooms, dried flowers, ash, charcoal, iodine and bark, following through to a...
750ml
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$11.88
$14.30
Ripe dark fruit, leather, baking spices and wet compost on the nose. Some walnuts, too. Medium-to full-bodied, firm...
750ml
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$18.92
$19.92
12 bottles:
$18.24
An aromatic red with notes of ripe blue fruit, fresh flowers, vanilla, licorice, chocolate and herbs. Medium-to...
750ml
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$29.25
$30.79
12 bottles:
$28.50
Coming from the Uco Valley in Argentina, the 2018 Southern Sojourn is 75% Malbec and 25% Cabernet Sauvignon that was...
750ml - Case of 12
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$16.33
The 2018 Malbec Mauricio Lorca from Vista Flores, Uco Valley is unaged and purple in color, delivering pure aromas of...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$42.94
The 2018 Malbec Pyros Vineyard Block N° 4 from the Pedernal Valley was aged for 12 months in French barrels, a tenth...
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$97.99
The 2018 Malbec Pyros Limestone Hill from the Pedernal Valley, San Juan is made with grapes from vines planted in a...
750ml
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$49.94
6 bottles:
$48.94
Discreetly plush on the nose with blackberries, blueberries and violets. Licorice, too. Full body. Firm and very...
750ml - Case of 3
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$103.78
The aromatics here really seduce you with their blackberry and dried-strawberry notes and undertones of wet earth,...
750ml - Case of 3
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$209.74
This is a really deep, decadent red, showing incredibly rich black soil, black olives and violets. Full body and rich...
Malbec Mencia Rum 2018
The purple Malbec variety grapes which now grow all over the Old and New Worlds had their origins in France, where they are one of the few grape varieties allowed to be used in the highly esteemed blended wines of Bordeaux. However, it is perhaps the New World Malbec wines which have attracted the most attention in recent years, as they thrive in hot southern climates in ways they cannot in their native country, where the damp conditions leave them highly vulnerable to rot. Malbec grapes are renowned for their high tannin content, resulting in full-bodied red wines packed with ripe, plummy flavors and held in their characteristically dark, garnet colored liquid. In many countries, Malbec is still used primarily as a varietal for blending, as it adds a great level of richness and density to other, lighter and thinner varietals. However, single variety Malbec wines have been greatly on the rise in recent years, with some fantastic results and big, juicy flavors marking them out as a great wine for matching with a wide range of foods.
It is difficult to categorize rum as a single spirit, because of all the spirits found around the globe, rum is perhaps the one which varies most dramatically from place to place. Clear, white rum - a favorite for cocktail drinkers - is perhaps the most prevalent example found today, but there is a whole world of darker, spiced and molasses-rich rums to explore, thanks to the fascinating history and wide reach this drink has.
Rum came about during the colonial times, when sugar was a huge and world-changing business. The molasses left over from the sugar production industry could easily be distilled into a delicious alcoholic drink, and provided extra income for the sugar traders. Before long, it became a favorite of sailors and transatlantic merchants, and it quickly spread across the Caribbean and Latin America, where it remains highly popular today.
The production of rum is a basic and simple one - you take your molasses, add yeast and water, and then ferment and distil the mixture. However, as is often the case, the devil is in the detail. The variation in yeasts found from place to place, the maturation period, the length of the fermentation and the type of stills and barrels used provide the rainbow-colored variation that gives rum its spectrum of styles and characteristics.