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Red
750ml
Bottle: $45.25
12 bottles: $44.35
Always one of the more garrigue-scented Châteauneufs, the Brunels' 2018 Chateauneuf du Pape includes hints of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $44.40
12 bottles: $43.51
Good depth of colour. Intense berry and juniper freshness with well-integrated oak lending a little background spice....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.20
12 bottles: $12.26
Notes of dark fruit and licorice, as well as some bay leaf. Full-bodied with round tannins. Creamy and fleshy on the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.17
12 bottles: $14.87
Currants, raspberries and some spicy undertones. Walnuts, too. Medium-bodied with firm tannins. Crisp and juicy on...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $34.65
12 bottles: $33.96
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $45.83 $48.00
12 bottles: $45.60
Excellent harmony of full body, moderately dry tannins and richness. The red fruits are now beautifully developed and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.65
12 bottles: $14.36
This fulfilling wine evokes the warm and fruity flavors of its sunny region. A young wine, packed with fresh notes of...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $39.81
Creamy oak gives this a rather hedonistic feel to the blackberries with walnuts and some new leather. A hint of figs....
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $25.89
Red
750ml
Bottle: $32.70
12 bottles: $32.05
Raspberries and leather mark the nose of the 2018 Gigondas, which was tasted as a blended sample prior to bottling....
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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $243.00
4 bottles: $240.00
Every year Mounir will select several crus to age in Amphorae, where they will remain untouched for around a year,...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $83.88
A dreamy wine, with a plume of incense, mulled raspberry and red tea aromas curling up from the glass, followed by a...
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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $97.94
3 bottles: $95.98
Pretty mesquite and red tea aromas lead off, followed by silky red cherry and raspberry fruit. Shows a light garrigue...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $53.94
12 bottles: $51.30
It's hard to believe the 2018 Chateauneuf du Pape Saintes Pierres is a second wine, it's that good. Garrigue notes...
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Red
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $780.26 $830.06
Red-fruited and garrigue-laden, the nose of the 2018 Chateauneuf du Pape Hommage à Jacques Perrin is glorious,...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $294.62
Red-fruited and garrigue-laden, the nose of the 2018 Chateauneuf du Pape Hommage à Jacques Perrin is glorious,...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $42.78
Moving to the wines from bottle, the base Gigondas from this estate is a perennial winner and readers can safely buy...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $101.95
Shimmering violet. Powerful, mineral- and spice-tinged boysenberry and cherry preserve scents are complemented by...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $83.95
Due to devastating yields, there’s not much of the 2018 Châteauneuf Du Pape to go around, but it’s going to be...
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Nero D'avola Mencia Red Rhone Blend 2018

Italy’s largest island, Sicily, has a wine producing history that can put most other European regions to shame. It was producing quality wines before the days of the Roman empire, and even the Ancient Greeks were not the first to cultivate vines on the island. For as long as anyone knows, the key grape varietal of Sicily has been Nero d’Avola, the beautiful, deep blue skinned grape which produces the region’s characterful, powerful red wines. While in the past, Nero d’Avola was mainly used as a blending grape, due to its deep color and intensely full body, it is today being increasingly celebrated as a single varietal wine grape, and is perfect for those who like their wines boisterous, loud and strong.



Nero d’Avola is grown pretty much everywhere on Sicily, as demand for wines made from this grape have never been higher. Despite its power and body, it is quite a versatile grape - it can be aged in oak barrels, which produces a dense and dark wine which puts its intense characteristics to good use, but it is also often drunk quite young, which allows its jammy, plummy character to come forward. It is also used to make rose wines in some appellations of Sicily, demonstrating a softer side to this otherwise heavy, deeply flavorful grape.