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Bottle: $14.95
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The Beau! Beaujolais comes from a forty year-old high-density vineyard. Fermentation is traditional, 100%...
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Bottle: $19.94
Delectable, fruity nose underscored with aromas of red and black fruits. Generous and aromatic on the palate, with...
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Bottle: $93.00
Very well structured, yet restrained and elegant with a cool and delicate personality for the warm vintage, this is a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.70
12 bottles: $27.27
Well structured, yet soft, elegant traditionally styled Juliénas, with delicious flavors of herb, spice and lovely...
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750ml
Bottle: $25.79
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750ml
Bottle: $17.00
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750ml
Bottle: $37.94
12 bottles: $37.18
Offering up aromas of cherries, sweet red berries, violets and spices, the 2020 Mâcon-Cruzille Beaumont is medium to...
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750ml
Bottle: $23.94
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $44.40
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $35.18 $40.20
Silky texture and long finish.
Red
750ml
Bottle: $32.25
12 bottles: $31.61
This cuvée is named for millerandage: a mix of average and smaller-sized grapes in one cluster that all ripen at the...
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750ml
Bottle: $32.89
12 bottles: $32.23
A striking, refined & deeply expressive gamay with notes of animal blood, orange zest and a long compelling finish.
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750ml
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.09
12 bottles: $16.75
A single-vineyard wine from the Corcelette sector of Morgon, this is impressively ripe. With structure, solid tannins...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $15.90
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $28.80
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750ml
Bottle: $15.34 $16.66
On the nose, there are abundant notes of macerated strawberries with hints of herbs. The acidity is bright with soft...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.94
12 bottles: $22.48
Dark black cherry color with purple. Deep, ripe aromas of black cherry with a hint of black pepper. Very good weight;...
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Gamay Mencia Savatiano 2020

The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.


The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.

Savatiano is probably Greece's most well known and most widely grown grape varietal, as it is the primary grape used in the production of Retsina, where the fermenting juices of the Savatiano varietal are flavored with pine resin in order to make this distinctive and famous wine. One of the reasons for the wide cultivation of this grape is due to its hardiness, and resistance to drought conditions. In the sun-drenched and dry, rocky Greek landscapes, this makes it an ideal vine to grow for wine-makers who require a strong and bounteous yield each year.

However, there are plenty of examples of Greek white wines which use the Savatiano grape but withhold from the addition the pine resin flavoring, allowing the true characteristics of this varietal to shine through. The result is often very pleasing indeed, with Savatiano grapes generally producing extremely well balanced and rounded white wines, with a juicily fruity flavor. Their aromas can vary quite a lot, with many Savatiano wines bearing the fragrance of citrus fruits, and also occasionally having a strong floral aroma reminiscent of elder and rose. Due to the relatively low acidity of Savatiano grapes, the wines which use them (including Retsina) generally bolster themselves with the addition of smaller quantities of more acidic varieties, such as Assyrtiko or Rhoditis, in order to improve their sometimes weak structure.

Additional Information on Greek Wines


Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?