Roumieu Sauternes
$49.99
It's amazing to think what a little havoc in the vineyard can create. Sauternes are made from grapes that get shriveled by an unusual fungus. Not to worry - the grapes are bursting with sweetness and flavor, resulting in this famous desert wine. Made with 80% Semillon and 20% Sauvignon Blanc, it's gorgeous with apricot and marmalade notes. Well balanced. Not cloying at all. Brilliant with,or for desert.
Mission Hill Riesling Ice Wine 375ml
$74.99
Mission Hill grows Riesling grapes in vineyards throughout the Okanagan, including a plot just below the winery on the slope of Mount Boucherie. While Vidal is the most common grape for Canadian icewine, Riesling is generally considered to be at the top of its class. Rich aromas and flavours of apricots, honey, tangerine and raisins. This is an irresistible, tasty offering.
Dumangin Ratafia Delicatesse Rose
$102.99
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The Delicatesse Ratafia from Dumangin is made from 50% Meunier, 25% Pinot Noir, and 25% Chardonnay. It was bottled in January of 2021, with only a few hundred produced.
From The Producer
"The ``DELICATESSE`` cuvée is made with a base of Champagne bleeding dew. Its unique fruitiness, its intense colour reflects the unique winemaking techniques of Champagne Dumangin J. Fils, for its “saignée” rosé with a skin maceration blend of 3 Champagne grape varieties simultaneously."
Ch. Lafaurie Peyraguey Sauternes
$119.99
Chateau Lafaurie-Peyraguey was named a 1er Grand Classe for Sauternes in the famous 1855 Bordeaux Classification. The Sauternes dessert wine the Chateau creates is made from botrytis-affected Semillon (85-95% - depending on the vintage) and Sauvignon Blanc (10-15% - depending on the vintage) grapes from the Chateau's 36 hectares of vineyard space.
The property is planted with 93% Sémillon, 6% Sauvignon, 1% Muscadelle and the average age of the vines is 40 years old.
Armajan Des Ormes
$33.99
The brothers Jacques and Guillaume Perromat are 6th generation vintners at Chateau d'Armajan des Ormes at Priegnac, situated in the heart of Sauternes. The 65/30/5 Semillon/sauvignon blanc/muscadelle blend of botrytized fruit delivers a classic style of Sauternes. The wine is barrel-aged for 24 months, delivering a great example of this famously expensive wine at a very modest price.
Mas Del Perie Rose A Table
$31.99
Fabien Jouves is from an old farming family in Causse and became a winemaker in 2006 when he created his first cuvée, “Mas del Périé”, on the highest slopes of Cahors.
Jouves’ estate, 21 hectares in the junction of Quercy and Cahors, was selected to highlight the many expression of Côt. Reinforcing this is Fabien’s commitment to biodynamic viticulture that respects “life, plant, man, and the environment.” Following biodynamic agriculture adds strength to his terroir by supporting the whole environment from the vines to the animals.
The vinification is completely natural without any oenological inputs. His wines are then aged in concrete vats, barrels, or casks, according to its characteristics and personality.
Mas Gabriel Lievres
$41.99
A blend of 75% Syrah and Grenache from plots located on three terraces, facing east at an altitude of 120m in Caux. The soil is basalt scree, silt and Villafranchian gravel. It's de-stemmed (without crushing), with vatting by gravity. Separate vinification of each grape variety in traditional fermentation with two delestages and pigeage. Post-fermentation maceration lasts for 20 days. It's aged in 500L barrels (15% new wood) for another 12 months.
Testalonga Stay Brave Chenin Blanc
$36.99
Testalonga Baby Bandito Stay Brave Chenin, skin contact fresh and unfined orange wine. - fermented on the skins for 11 days before being pressed off into old oak Foudre and barrels. No yeast or other additives apart from a small amount of SO2 shortly before bottling. Ambient fermentation and 100% malolactic fermentation. Unfined and only lightly filtered
Planted in 1981, bush vine (un-trellised), farmed organically. This is a 1.5ha block which was abandoned in 2014, they approached the farmer Rick Mcgrindle and asked if they could try and revive it. The first vintage in 2016 resulted in no grapes but in 2017 showed tremendous growth and yielded nicely.
Winemaker Craig says: 'Baby Bandito is a project we started in 2015. We wanted to work with vineyards that deliver wines that can be drunk young yet still “over deliver” in quality one would expect from our most affordable wine. There was a heavy influence from street artists (the good ones, not just your drunk student defacing someone’s wall, unless it was good) in the labels and the idea of a “series” using different and bright colours. The names of the wines come from expressions that we use as if giving encouragement to a child. Stay Brave is our “Baby” skin contact Chenin.'
A Sunday in August Pinot Gris
$44.99
This wine is made from Pinot Gris from two sites in the Okanagan. 75% comes from Anne Sperling’s Biodynamic vineyard in Kelowna, while the other 25% comes from Crocket, an organic vineyard in the Similkameen Valley. The grapes are fermented on their skins in a combination of neutral oak barrels and stainless-steel tanks for four-nine days. After being pressed off, the wine finishes fermentation and malolactic conversion in tank and barrel before being bottled, unfined and unfiltered. The label art is done by Claire Milbrath.