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White
750ml
Bottle: $39.94
12 bottles: $39.14
Musky apricot pit, peach and spicy vanillin oak on the nose. Densely packed but quite suave and fine-grained in spite...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $82.89
6 bottles: $81.23
Brilliant ruby. An expansive bouquet evokes ripe red fruit, candied flowers, black cardamom and musky earth, and a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $38.77 $40.20
12 bottles: $37.99
Aged 22 months in one-fourth new French oak, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Champoux Vineyard (100% Cabernet Sauvignon)...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $79.94 $83.20
12 bottles: $78.34
The flagship from this great estate is the 2018 Sorella, a Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated blend (8% each of Cabernet...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $21.88
12 bottles: $21.44
A soft, smooth and most enjoyable bottle, this shows plenty of well-ripened fruit, from strawberry to raspberry and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $59.28
6 bottles: $58.09
The 2018 Pinot Noir has layers of tart cherry, Christmas (Douglas Fir, candle wax, and gingerbread), dried orange...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $34.32
12 bottles: $33.63
With the majority of its fruit from the Hirschy Vineyard, the 2018 Pinot Noir Athena is dark ruby and takes on a bit...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.94 $23.52
12 bottles: $22.48
Vivacious and full on the palate, the red fruit (think Twizzlers) pops, and the uninterrupted juiciness melds with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94
Just bottled, the 100% varietal 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon has a juicy, fruit-forward, delicious style as well as notes...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $37.95 $40.88
6 bottles: $37.19
Tightly focused and rather broad-shouldered, with dense blackberry, bitter chocolate and savory spice flavors that...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $39.94
12 bottles: $39.14
Exceptional terroir quality inspired this limited production.The Cabernet Franc grapes came from a single terroir of...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $35.60
12 bottles: $34.89
Lemon candy and melon aromas are in the driver's seat, with honeyed toast riding shotgun. There's a lovely burst of...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $36.40
The 2018 Chardonnay La Belle Promenade has a nose of golden apples, hazelnuts and bright touches of baker's yeast....
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $64.80
Modern and elegant with deep aromas of ripe cherry and strawberry, followed by black tea and anise. On the palate...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $31.92
Tart and firm in structure, with modest cherry, smoky meat and spice flavors. Drink now through 2025. 1,200 cases made.
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $71.89
Cool ocean-breeze influence here, with a very fragrant violet, red-cherry and blueberry nose, really pristine. The...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $44.82
12 bottles: $43.92
Combines polish with a handsome structure, offering expressive black cherry and plum flavors accented with Asian...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.98
12 bottles: $22.80
Composed of 52% Carignan, 32% Mourvèdre and 16% Grenache, the 2018 Lower East The Bowery has a magenta core and...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $32.94
12 bottles: $32.28
A very elegant and creamy sparkling wine with a wonderful, seamless mouth feel. Plenty of berry and candied-citrus...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $47.40
12 bottles: $45.03
All Cabernet from a great vineyard on Red Mountain, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Ciel Du Cheval sports a vivid purple...
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2018 United States New York Oregon Washington State

Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.

New York state has a wine history which stretches back to the mid-17th century, when Dutch settlers first began cultivating grape vines in the Hudson Valley. Since then, the wine industry of New York has grown from strength to strength, mixing the old with the new as wineries continue to experiment with modern techniques alongside their traditional heritage. Indeed, certain wineries in New York state hold a claim to being amongst the oldest and most well established in the New World, with at least one dating back over three hundred and fifty years. New York state is responsible for a relatively small range of grape varietals, due to its cooler, damper climate, but many varietals such as Riesling and Seyval Blanc thrive in such conditions and produce wines a of singular quality.

The beautiful state of Oregon has, over the past few decades, become increasingly well known and respected for its wine industry, with several small but significant wineries within the state receiving world wide attention for the quality of their produce. Whilst the first vineyards within Oregon were planted in the 1840s, the state's wine industry didn't really take off until the 1960s, when several wine producers from California discovered that the cooler regions of the state were ideal for cultivating various fine grape varietals. Today, Oregon has over four hundred and fifty wineries in operation, the vast majority of which are used for the production of wines made from Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir varietal grapes, both of which thrive in the valleys and mountainsides which characterise the landscape of the state.

Since it began in the 1820s, wine-production in Washington state has gone from strength to strength, with many of the finest United States wines coming out over the past twenty years hailing from this region. Today, the state is the second largest US producer of wines, behind California, with over forty thousand acres under vine. The state itself is split into two distinct wine regions, separated by the Cascade Range, which casts an important rain shadow over much of the area. As such, the vast majority of vines are grown and cultivated in the dry, arid desert-like area in the eastern half of the state, with the western half producing less than one percent of the state's wines where it is considerably wetter. Washington state is famed for producing many of the most accessible wines of the country, with Merlot and Chardonnay varietal grapes leading the way, and much experimentation with other varietals characterizing the state's produce in the twenty-first century.