Taylor Fladgate 30 Year Tawny Port
$234.99
Taylor's is one of the only Port Houses that still produces a 30 Year Old Aged Tawny Port. It is made by maturing special red Ports in oak casks in the Taylor's cellars. The deep, rich colour of old gold, this beauty has a silky richness, with notes of dried fruit, caramel and honey. Serve on its own as dessert, or pair with creme brulee, fresh walnuts or dried fruit.
Croft 2003 Vintage Port
$249.99
Today, Croft is a part of the Fladgate Partnership, three of the most historic and highly regarded Porto houses, including Taylor Fladgate, Fonseca and Croft—a family-owned company that sets the standard to which other Port houses aspire.
Bright, saturated ruby. Brooding aromas of bitter cherry, violet and licorice, lifted by a resiny nuance. Then densely packed, concentrated and fresh, with rich, fleshy flavors of kirsch and dark chocolate. Finishes with big, broad, thoroughly ripe tannins and very good lingering black cherry fruit. This is surprisingly easy to taste today but should age well on its ripe tannins and sheer balance.
Score: 90 points -- Stephen Tanzer, Vinous, 2006
Alvear Pedro Ximenez Anada Sherry
$40.99
Pedro Ximenéz Sherry is a rich dessert wine made from Pedro Ximenez grapes, hand-picked and dried in the sun before pressing. The sweet must is then fortified with grape spirit, before starting a careful ageing process. Intoxicating aromas of coffee, cream and toffee with delighful toasted notes. The taste is rich and smooth with lingering cocoa and mocha. Delicious with blue cheese.
Cave Spring Icewine 375 ml
$79.99
Celebrate Canada! This sweet white wine was made from 100% Riesling grapes which were left to freeze naturally on the vine. Pressed on winter nights at temperatures of -8 degrees C or colder, these partly raisined berries produced a nectar-like dessert wine known for its luscious fruit flavors, honeyed sweetness and balancing acidity. Best after a festive dinner with a selection of fresh fruit and light cheese. Hard to resist.
Dumangin Ratafia Craft
$74.99
This bottling of Ratafia Champenois from Gilles Dumangin is made of 2/3 Pinot Meunier and 1/3 Pinot Noir. Multiple vintages with a minimum age of 6 years were chosen to be married together before a further 9 years of maturation took place in casks that previously held wine from Northern Rhone. Bottled at 18% ABV.
Ratafia Champenois is a fortified wine from the Champagne region of France typically made from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Brandy or a neutral grape spirit is added to the grape juice before fermentation. The Ratafia has a lovely tawny colour and rich, complex dried fruit flavours. Gilles recommends serving it with melon, cheese and chocolate desserts.
Sperone Marsala Dry
$24.99
Marsala is like a distant cousin to sherry. Lord Nelson used Marsala to fortify the Royal Navy way back, when sailing ships sailed the high seas. Marsala is produced in the region surrounding the city of Marsala in Sicily. It's an intensely aromatic, fortified wine. Dry and clean. It's used in cooking and sauces but it's also very nice as an aperitif, or paired with Gorgonzola, Roquefort and other spicy cheeses.
Cirelli Orange
$37.99
A stone’s throw away from the Adriatic coast is the entirely organic Cirelli estate, run by Francesco Cirelli and his wife, Michela, who in addition to making wine, farms olives, garlic, spelt, wheat, barley, figs, and geese – an entire, self-sustaining ecosystem. Carrying on their days surrounded by rolling hills, the grapes also enjoy a maritime influence that helps preserve natural balance and fresh acidity in the baked Abruzzo sun. The citric and aromatic trebbiano grapes are destemmed before one month of maceration, pulling glossy tannins. Gold in colour, with hay bale, a bundle of wildflowers, linseed, green pear, white nectarine, raw almond, coriander seed & silky fresh lemony acid.
Greenock Creek Apricot Block
$86.99
Thrust into the international wine spotlight thanks to an unmatched eight perfect 100-point scores from the world’s leading wine publication, The Wine Advocate, Greenock Creek remains the proud standard-bearer for long-lived Barossa Valley red wines of deep colour, abundant flavour and great structure.
Their vineyards are situated in the sub-regions of Seppeltsfield, Marananga and Moppa located along the Barossa Valley’s western edge and are some of the oldest vines in the world. Thin, sandy loam topsoil's lie sparsely scattered over ancient deposits of bluestone, marble stone, limestone, quartz and ironstone. Rainfall is limited, often to less than 400 millimetres a year falling through winter and early spring. Subsurface clay retains valuable moisture, sustaining the vines through the long, warm and dry summers and autumns. The perfect, low-disease-pressure conditions in which to grow small, healthy bunches of compact, flavour-packed berries.
93 points from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate! The review: "Deep garnet-purple coloured, the Apricot Block Shiraz opens with aromas of crushed wild blueberries and mulberries with underlying touches of roses, black olives, cigar boxes and anise. Medium to full-bodied and generously fruited in the mouth, it gives a great concentration of blue and black fruit flavors with a crisp acid line, medium levels of rounded tannins and a long finish with a little pepper coming through. It is still just a little tightly wound.
Burrowing Owl Syrah
$53.99
Burrowing Owl Vineyards is situated within the very hot, dry bunchgrass biogeoclimatic zone of the South Okanagan, one of the four most endangered ecosystems in all of Canada. The international wine trade have consistently named these wines among the best in the world. This Syrah is smooth on the palate with jammy cassis accented by dark chocolate and nutmeg. Perfict with BBQ ribs.