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750ml
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$36.55
$39.19
Intense garnet in color, the nose shows aromas of ripe red fruits nicely complemented by notes of vanilla and spice...
750ml
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$12.13
12 bottles:
$11.89
Very lively aroma with intense fruit and
some vegetable. Soft, easy and enveloping, ends with some persistence.
750ml
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$11.93
12 bottles:
$11.52
Partial wood aging has polished this wine, softening the juicy black fruits and adding a touch of smokiness. The wine...
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$10.53
$11.70
Ruby color wine, with red and black fruit aromas and a hint of chocolate. This is a well-balanced wine, with soft...
750ml
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$69.90
6 bottles:
$68.50
The top wine from this estate, purchased in 2017 as the Symington Family's first venture outside the Douro, is in the...
Sherry Mencia Red Blend Portugal Alentejo
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.
Benefiting from both the hot, dry Iberian climate as well as brisk Atlantic winds, Portugal is a perfectly situated country for vineyard cultivation and wine production. With a wine making history which stretches back thousands of years, it comes as little surprise that wine plays an important role in the cultural identity and practices of the country. The Phoenicians, the Carthaginians, the Greeks and the Romans all had a hand in forming Portugal as an important center for wine production, and over the millennia, this resulted in each region of this beautiful part of Europe producing its own distinctive wines easily identifiable and separate from neighboring Spain's. Today, the varied terroir and climate across Portugal allows a great range of wines to be made each year, from the fresh and dry Vinho Verde wines to the famous and widely drunk fortified Port wines, and many in between.