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This generous Muscadet offers aromas of white peach candy and ripe green pear at the start. On the palate, it is not super fruity, but you will find the essence of white fruits and honeysuckle, along with pineapple, elderflower and lees on a creamy, waxy frame.

Floral aromas are balanced with scents of guava, melon, Granny Smith apple and nectarine. The palate is medium plus in body and silky with similar flavors to the notes, but it ends with slight nuttiness and green tropical fruit.

Pear, quince, light floral aromas especially orange blossom, soft almond notes and some nectarine are enticing. This nearly off-dry wine has a round texture balanced with refreshing acid. The palate provides jasmine, some orange peel and subtle peach flavors that are enjoyable alone or with food.

Pleasant pepper spice and crisp apple and green pear fragrance on the nose. On the palate, fresh herbs frame the fruit. Some mandarin or clementine orange on the finish with classic white pepper.

from the Producer: Soalheiro Alvarinho has a bright, lemon-yellow colour. This wine is distinguished by its fresh and elegant fragrance, revealing the aromatic complexity of Alvarinho variety. The flavour has intense tropical and mineral notes that balance perfectly with the acidity and moderate alcohol content.

Aromas of yellow tropical fruits such as papaya and passionfruit invite you to this dry Finger Lakes Gruner Veltliner. The palate is clean and lifted with green and yellow fruits -- citrus, unripe pineapple, nectarine, yellow pear, papaya and grapefruit. Tasty!

Aromas are of nectarine, apple, flowers, honey , pear and peach fuzz. The palate is medium plus in weight with succulent orchard fruits (apple, peach, pear) and some tropical notes (passionfruit underripe mango). Citrusy acidity keeps it juicy and the texture is a nice balance between crisp and fleshy. This is bright, clean and a great, all-purpose wine!

Unctuous and rich without being sweet, this white blend provides a viscous mouthfeel that is dense and packed with orchard and tropical fruit flavors. The wine is bright and clean with notes of apricot, apple, lychee and peach "on steroids." There's some minerality and enough acid to keep it balanced and make one go back for sip after sip. A touch of florality lurks in the background of this luscious white.

This wine gives floral and savory aromatics. On the palate, there is peach and apricot, hazelnut, hay, and white flowers. Dense, round, full and juicy with a light bitterness, you will seek glass after glass!

Precise orchard fruits abound in the glass; golden delicious apple, spiced lemon curd, ripe apricot and hints of vanilla. The wine is nicely balanced with bright acidity and a satiating finish. With air, it grows more powerful and dense, giving richer flavors like peaches and cream. 

This is a complex and layered wine aromatically and texturally. Glazed lemons and orange slices with some apricot aromatically. The texture has lovely acidity and medium plus body. The fruit flavors are rich but perfectly balanced and delivering apricot, candied pear, guava and lychee.

This Italian white offers nice density and roundness with ripe fruits such as apricot and lychee. There is a touch of spice and almond in this juicy, medium-plus bodied wine, along with balanced acidity. Great value!

Aromas are of lily, lemon, baked pear, apple and leesy notes with soft oak. The palate is refreshing with golden apple, golden raisin, chamomile tea and a creaminess that is reminiscent of pineapple panna cotta.

This lovely aromatic white gives flowers, lemon, lime and warm wet stone notes. It is pretty with light tropicality (mango and guava), peach and more flowers. It is lifted and attractive, practically dancing on your palate. The acidity is moderate with a persistent finish.

This aromatic wine gives notes of nectarine, peach, apricot and truffle. On the palate, it is medium plus or more in weight with flint, nectarine, peach, apricot, lemon curd, vanilla cream and herbs. While juicy and succulent, it is also round and textural with a savory note of truffle. Very, very tasty!

Aromas of nectarine, white peach and fresh orchard melange greet you in the glass. They're vibrant and bright and so is the wine on the palate. It's succulent, juicy and densely packed with yellow fruits with light notes of honey, herb and almond. The texture is creamy, supple and stays energetic at the same time. A wonderful wine for seafood and white meats. It can also take bold seasonings.

This exciting wine is a hybrid cross of Riesling and Cayuga developed by Cornell, and finally named Aravelle. This is aromatic and fruity with peach, apricot, fruit salad with herbs like sage. The palate is semi dry, rich and ripe fruited. There is peach, nectarine, apricot, mango, glazed tropical fruit and ginger. This bright wine has a little creaminess and would be excellent with spicy Asian fare that has some savoriness.

Generous scents of apricot, apple blossom, and lemon introduce this wine. It is medium-plus in body, creamy, round, and reminiscent of buttery apple pie. On the palate, good fruit intensity joins with notes of preserved lemon, vanilla, savory herbs and white tea, all balanced by moderate, juicy acidity.

This wine is composed of equal parts sweet, ripe berries and stony minerality. There is a light earthiness, integrated tannins, refreshing acidity and very good density. It's perfectly balanced! Fruit of blueberries, blackberries, plums and black raspberries mix with some forest bramble. This is indicative of the Northern Rhone (winery in Cornas), but it's composed of Gamay.

This is a powerful style of Bordeaux that also retains elegance and finesse. On the palate you will find rich ripe plum, blackcurrant, ripe cherries, and showcasing subtle cedar notes, with chalky tannin and good length.

This wine is medium plus in weight and concentration, generous and complex. It drinks like a Rhône wine from a cru (a recognized, prestigious appellation). One could call it a “baby Châteauneuf-du-Pape.” There are black currants, black cherries and wild dark fruits mixed with garrigue (dried Mediterranean herbs), violets and warm earth notes. Despite its savory, deep, brooding, intense and rustic character, the wine is rich and ripe with rounded tannins.

This biodynamic wine is ripe and purple fruited but not overripe. Some dark chocolate shavings, black olives, mulberry and blackcap aromas with some Mediterranean herbs and graphite. This wine is alluring, you want to dive into it and once you do you discover the supple texture, something savory, worn leather and smooth tannins that could do with some more ageing. The palate has white pepper, vanilla, and baked raspberry. It is deep, brooding, and not as ripe tasting as it smells; this is a great additional to any table.

This is such an appealing wine with aromas darker fruit than the last vintage with black fruits (currants, boysenberry, and blueberry) with a touch of florality spring from the nose of unique Mediterranean grape. The wine is medium weight with red and purple fruits, plums, blueberries and rose petals. It is fresh, unique, appealing, fragrant, food-friendly, soft and accessible. The tannins are light to medium weight with crisp acidity.

Juniper, violet and pepper notes mingle out front before the core of kirsch and plum fruit arrives, turning this into a juicy ball of anise-tinged deliciousness, with an echo of garrigue through the finish. Drink now through 2025. Wine Spectator, 91 Points

Dark fruit but still fresh and juicy this assumed malbec dominated wine is balanced and smooth. An enticing mix of graphite, concentrated blueberry compote, mild smoke and tobacco with some white pepper and cassis.  Floral and spice aromas pull you in and fold over to the palate, adding juicy boysenberry and blueberry pastry notes at the core. The flavors fan out from a push of fresh acidity, with savory olive and five-spice details weaving in, ending with bold tannins and nice length. Drink now through 2028. 12,000 cases made, 3,000 cases imported. - Wine Spectator, 91 Points

Aromas are meaty and deep, offering black cap raspberries, blackberry compote, and smoke. In the mouth, this wine is deep black and sleek, dark fruited and savory (black currant and espresso) as well as textured (suave tannins and fresh acidity). All elements are well integrated, along with herbal/vegetal notes and touches of light earth mineral and stone. This medium-plus bodied wine is fresh and superbly balanced. What a beauty!

Made mostly with sun-baked Grenache, La Pinède possesses a remarkable weightlessness and freshness that you rarely find in such a succulent, flavorful southern red. Evoking black cherries, licorice, and garrigue, this elegant rouge is the ultimate entry point to the charms of French Catalonia. —Tom Wolf

In Sheep's Clothing delivers a ripeness of fruit flavors while preserving the acidity that gives the medium to full-bodied wine a sense of freshness. With layers of cassis, blueberries, and black cherries, this wine lends to a New World style of fruit with more of an Old World structure with a hint of wood smoke. This wine fully embraces an integral part of classic Cabernet Sauvignon by highlighting a complex blend of dried herbs: anise, thyme and bay leaf.

The nose is fruit forward with ripe black cherry, strawberry coulis and spiced raspberry notes. On the palate, this wine is extremely supple and seamless, yet has structuring acidity. The ripeness continues with black cherry and black cap raspberry fruit. A gulpable, soft and plus red in a liter bottle!

Aromas of black cherry, raspberry, black pepper and garrigue unfold from the glass. The wine is juicy with sweet ripe fruits, especially red cherry and blackberry, accompanied by light spice and herbs. It is medium weight, clean and supple with bright acidity. Very tasty and versatile!

Subtle and lovely aromatics with a touch of floral, mineral, wild strawberry and soft herbaceous notes. The palate is silky and round texture with minerality coming at the finish. The palate delivers some pink grapefruit, wild strawberry and lavender.

This dry rosé is lightly floral with notes of dried lavender and strawberry on the nose. The palate offers bright lemon and nectarine with strawberry, raspberry and herbs rounding out the finish.

Savory aromas of bark and toast with black and red cherry, red currant and some wild strawberry. The round mouthfeel boarders on creamy with good intensity and complexity. The flavors echo the nose with additional intense spice, blood orange and a long finish.

There are aromas of peach and strawberry candy on the nose.  Medium-bodied and well-structured on the palate with strawberry-cherry flavors and a whiff of peaches and cream. The wine is dry, lifted and well-framed, though it shows a joyful vanilla confection note.

The wine label is quite appropriate as this rosé gives aromas of strawberry, raspberry and cherry just like the beautiful illustration on the front. On the palate, it is lightly zippy with crisp acidity and a pleasant tartness. Fruit of strawberry, lemon and white raspberry along with light minerality and effervescence are reminiscent of strawberry lemonade. However, don't worry, this wine is completely dry, nicely balanced and very pretty!

Gorgeous pink color with a nose of raspberry, ripe strawberry and cherry aromas. The perfume is gorgeous and yet, has a delicacy to it. This wine is ultra-elegant with pinpoint bubbles and finesse. The fruit is ripe and red fruited--raspberry, cherry, pomegranate, strawberry, cranberry--all the reds!  It is dry and minerally, yet generous with its fruit. Such balance means that your bottle will quickly disappear!

From the producer: "Ripe and smoky, the nose on this cider is classic bittersweet apple: apples left in the orchard, roses, dust, honey, bacon, leather, and damp leaves. The mid-palate is thick, rich and textured. In the finish, chalky tannin dominates with dried apples and woodsmoke."

Baked apple, ripe pear, aromatic and autumnal feeling with golden apple and quince. The palate is medium dry with apple, yellow plum, cinnamon and nutmeg with good tart acidity. This is clean, not heavy but richly flavored and lightly effervescent. A portion of this cider has crab apples in it, so the little sweetness is nicely balanced.

This bourbon is a beautiful, rose-brown color. Aromatics are of malt, citrus and light baking spice. On the palate, there are notes of apricot, apples, vanilla,cinnamon, maple, melted butter, golden brown toast and a sweet maltiness, as well as notes of flan and creme brulee topping. Very smooth with integrated alcohol.

This is a more complex coffee liqueur than Godiva with less heaviness. It is viscous like molasses, thick and dark. It smells like chocolate, espresso, dates and roasted poppyseeds. The palate is delicious like mole sauce with coffee mousse, and coconut. This would be so much fun around the Holidays.