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Wonderfully aromatic with dark berry and stone character. Violets as well. Full to medium body. Precise and focused...
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750ml
Bottle: $54.79
6 bottles: $54.00
Just beginning to mature, this single vineyard Port from Dow's flagship estate is dense, generous and full of spice...
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Bottle: $14.64 $16.24
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750ml
Bottle: $47.54
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Cherry candy, mulled plum and steeped red currant notes give this a caressing and flattering feel while black tea and...
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375ml
Bottle: $15.99 $17.94
Made with wild blueberries which are small, concentrated and brimming with flavor. Blueberries are slowly fermented...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $104.77 $110.28
6 bottles: $100.80
Commencing with cherry oak, almond and vanilla, the middle to finish with a hint of anise, notes of woody spices, and...
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750ml
Bottle: $32.80
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This is a young, fruity style of Late Bottled Vintage. It emphasizes red fruits with a full, sweet richness. The...
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750ml
Bottle: $199.94
6 bottles: $195.94
Deep red color with dense violoet tones. Intense and elegant aromas dominated by ripe black fruits such as...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $36.32 $38.23
12 bottles: $28.05
#7 in the 2020 Top 20. Elijah Craig always impresses with value, but until now has been confined to bourbon. This...
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750ml
Bottle: $20.23 $22.48
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Bright and juicy, offering red plum, dark currant and wild cherry flavors, with fruitcake notes. This is full of...
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750ml
Bottle: $109.00
6 bottles: $107.80
The 1975 Colheita Port (Feuerheerd’s) is a blend of 35% Touriga Franca, 15% Touriga Nacional, 20% Tinta Barroca,...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $44.45 $46.79
Field & Sound Bottled in Bond Straight Rye Whiskey is distilled by Long Island Spirits on the North Fork of Long...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $43.70 $46.00
A little aeration time coaxes out a mellow vanilla scent. As with its Bourbon counterpart, this rye is aged in...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $69.54 $73.20
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750ml
Bottle: $36.83 $39.60
12 bottles: $34.25
McKenzie Rye Whiskey is made from local rye grain and is distilled using old-time techniques. We age this whiskey in...
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750ml
Bottle: $68.40 $76.00
The 2017 Vintage Port, not quite bottled when seen but the final blend, is a field blend (with typical grapes like...
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750ml
Bottle: $32.40 $36.00
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The NV 10 Year Old Tawny was bottled in 2013 with a bar top cork. It comes in at 106.7 grams per liter of residual...
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Mencia Port Blend Rye Whiskey

Port wine is Portugal’s great gift to the world. Coming from the ancient harbour capital city of Porto and the surrounding Douro Valley region, Port wine has been made by Portuguese vintners for at least four hundred years, although viticulture has been continually happening in the area for well over two thousand years. Port is a fortified wine, meaning it is a wine which has been bolstered by the addition of grape brandy. Originally, this was used as a method of preservation, allowing the delicate Portuguese wines to survive the journey by sea to trading partners in the UK and France. However, the wonderful taste and unique character the fortification process lends to the wine soon became massively popular, and before long, this new wine style was a hit all across Europe.


Unlike some other fortified wines, Port is made by adding brandy before the wine itself has completed its fermentation. The result of this is that plenty of the grapes’ natural sweetness is maintained in the barrel, meaning it is exceptionally smooth and rounded on the palate. Port comes in many different styles - Tawny Port wines are prized for their richness and mellow character, Reserve and Late Bottled Ports are full of fruit flavor. Vintage Port is a complex, wonderful thing - capable of standing up to some of the finest wines in the world when it comes to depth of flavor and fascinating features.

Rye Whiskey is enjoying something of a renaissance of late, with sales rocketing in recent years thanks to a growing interest in strong, unique flavors, and small, independent distilleries. Rye Whiskey is a drink which is all about powerful, bold flavors, with plenty of spice and bitterness when drunk young. Aged, however, it takes on a deep set of subtle notes which are beautifully mellow and complex, and becomes a fascinating example of what whiskey can be when made with expert hands.

In order for an American Whiskey to be labeled a Rye Whiskey, it must have a mash content which is no less than fifty one percent rye. This separates it from Bourbon, and it is this which gives it its distinctive flavor and spiciness. Toffee, cinnamon, caraway, cloves and oak are typical tasting notes, and ‘straight rye’ whiskies - which are aged in charred oak barrels - take on plenty of the smokiness of the wood, adding a further, fascinating facet.

Rye Whiskey has its spiritual home in the northeastern states of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and cities like Pittsburgh produced vast quantities of Rye Whiskey in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most the old distilleries were closed during the prohibition era, after which time rye whiskey more or less disappeared completely, but the twenty-first century is seeing old recipes being resurrected and released to rave reviews.