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Exotic Fruits
Island Mist™
Ready in 4 weeks$125.00$125.00A fantastic pairing of natural berry and plum flavours with a host of luscious fruits including blackberry, strawberry, passionfruit and blackcurrant. This clever combination unleashes a full fruit intensity with a wonderfully balanced, slightly tangy finish.
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French Cabernet Sauvignon
World Vineyard™
Ready in 4 weeks$150.00$150.00All the classic associations with this well-known grape variety used in France’s brilliant red wine blends are here in this Cabernet brought in directly from France: rich, intense aromas, deep berry fruits, healthy tannins, and a smooth, lingering finish. With the proper tannin astringency and premium French oak evident throughout, this is an elegant wine offering body and complexity when aged.
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French Merlot
Selection™
Ready in 6 weeksDirect from the vineyards of southern France, this classic varietal is rich with ripe fruit and berry flavours, yet soft and elegant. Dry, full-bodied and deeply coloured, with a complex velvety taste accentuated with premium French oak.
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French Sauvignon Blanc
World Vineyard™
Ready in 4 weeks$150.00$150.00Steely, grassy, herbaceous the classic traits of palate-cleansing Sauvignon Blanc are here in this version sourced directly from the French countryside. Crisp and dry, this refreshing wine is a fabulous match with food, as its full, fresh flavours and wonderfully balanced acidity make it essential with chicken, fish and grilled vegetables.
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German Mosel Valley Gewürztraminer
Eclipse
Ready in 6 weeks$209.00$209.00A fusion of rich texture, robust aroma and exotic lychee flavour. Refreshing, with an intense and memorable finish.
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German Müller-Thurgau
World Vineyard™
Ready in 4 weeks$150.00$150.00Müller-Thurgau (Moo-lehr Tirr-gow) Delicious flavours apricot, green apple and peach aromas of Riesling, and the early ripening qualities of Silvaner.A great sipping wine, it’s a perfect choice for potato chips (there’s nothing like a crisp glass of Müller-Thurgau and some crunchy chips!) but mostly it’s a very satisfying wine to quench a thirst in good company.
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German Müller-Thurgau
Selection™
Ready in 6 weeksDeveloped as a cross combining the lively qualities of Riesling with the viticultural reliability of Sylvaner, Germany’s most widely cultivated grape attains rare heights in aroma and flavour. Winexpert’s German Mller-Thurgau is crisp and clean, with a grapey fruit character, low to medium acidity, and a pleasantly fragrant aroma. Vibrant flavours of crunchy green apples are imparted in its floral residual sweetness, aided by the addition of our F-pack* finishing package.
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Gewürztraminer
Vintners Reserve™
Ready in 4 weeksA distinctive grape varietal with an unmistakable lychee/floral bouquet and zesty citrus flavours that lead to a mouth-filling finish. Excellent with spicy foods or desserts.
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Green Apple
Island Mist™
Ready in 4 weeks$125.00$125.00The flavour sensation of biting into a crisp, crunchy green apple, with a pleasant tartness followed by a delicious juicy finish. Natural apple flavours blended perfectly with a slight acidity for a clean, cool and crisp wine.
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Grenache Cabernet with Grape Skins
Spéciale
Ready in 8 weeks$145.00$145.00Cabernet Sauvignon, the undisputed “king” of grapes, is a big, bold character that has strong tannins in his youth, yet unwinds himself with age to a smooth, velvety texture that is worth waiting for. Flavours like black currant (cassis) jam, cigar box and black olive. Grenache is the yin to Cabernet Sauvignon’s yang. It’s both soft and jammy to balance out the powerful structure of Cabernet, yet rich and spicy enough to stand up to him. Flavours like red licorice, black cherry and raspberry combine with warm vanilla and spice that rounds out the blend perfectly. Enjoy this wine with bold protein-rich dishes like grilled steak on the barbecue or wild mushroom risotto if meat is not on the menu.
Available April 2017
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Italian Amarone Style with Grape Skins
Selection™
Ready in 8 weeks$191.00$191.00Winexpert’s Selection Italian Amarone with Grape Skins is an intense, complex wine, with a wide array of flavours and aromas. Deep, nearly opaque red, this heavyweight exudes aromas of sour cherries, dark chocolate, stewed plums, dried fruits, anise, raisins, bitter almond, tobacco, leather and molasses, and has a spicy-earthy bittersweet finish that goes on and on, from the huge volume of tannins.
Pair with grilled beef, strong dry cheeses (Parmigiano Reggiano or Asiago), pasta with meat-based tomato sauces, antipasto, veal or roast pork. The gripping tannin in this wine also makes it a natural for other red meats and game, and the fruit lifts up well herbed or spiced dishes.
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Italian Brunello Style with Grape Skins
Selection™
Ready in 8 weeks$191.00$191.00Winexpert’s Selection Italian Brunello Style with Grape Skins is a dark-cherry colour with highlights of gorgeous ruby-garnet. Bold, yet supple, the big, smoky-earthy nose of ultra-ripe cherry and currant-like fruit gives way to a hint of tar and cracked black pepper, cedar, whiffs of liquorice, leather, and also plums and black cherries, followed by a richly tannic, long, long finish.
The super concentrated flavours are generous even in youth, but this sensational wine is sensational after six months to a year. Good acidity makes this a very food friendly wine: like many Italian reds, Brunello shines in the company of assertively flavoured foods. Osso buco and veal piccata are splendid accompaniments, as are hard cheeses such as asiago and Pecorino Romano. Its firm backbone of acids and tannins make it work well with rich and spicy foods like Italian sausages or lasagna.
Alcohol by Volume 13.0-13.5%
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Italian Montepulciano Style
Selection™
Ready in 6 weeks$191.00$191.00Montepulciano is a vigorous red grape variety widely planted over much of east-central Italy, capable of creating deeply coloured, rich red wines with blackberry fruit flavours and spicy, peppery tannin levels. Montepulciano generally produces wines that are smooth and mellow yet robust and mouth filling, with dependably high alcohol content. Superb with veal and pasta an Italian gem you won’t want to miss.
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Italian Nebbiolo
World Vineyard™
Ready in 4 weeks$150.00$150.00Medium in body with a luminous dark cherry colour Winexpert World Vineyard Barolo has rich, spicy fruit and delivers the true character of the grape and land. Typical flavours are cherries, violets, black licorice, truffles and it finishes with rich, chewy, deep and long-lasting flavour. Burly, assertive ‘chewy’ wine, it is not for the faint of heart, but for those seeking intensity and complexity, there is nothing else like Barolo.
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Italian Piedmont Nebbiolo with Grape Skins
Eclipse
Ready in 8 weeks$209.00$209.00A burly and assertive wine with dark cherry iridescence. Intense and robust with notes of strawberries, a hint of dark tar, and floral aroma complemented by rich, earthy truffles.
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Italian Pinot Grigio
World Vineyard™
Ready in 4 weeks$150.00$150.00The Italians have their own way with the Pinot Gris grape variety, and in the process they create a special magic with it that’s unmatched elsewhere in the wine world. Though dry in character and with a pleasant zip of acidity, this Pinot Grigio shows off a pleasant floral fragrance and tremendous fruit flavours, making it the perfect picnic accompaniment.
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Italian Pinot Grigio
World Vineyard™
Ready in 4 weeks$150.00$150.00The Italians have their own way with the Pinot Gris grape variety, and in the process they create a special magic with it that’s unmatched elsewhere in the wine world. Though dry in character and with a pleasant zip of acidity, this Pinot Grigio shows off a pleasant floral fragrance and tremendous fruit flavours, making it the perfect picnic accompaniment.
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Italian Pinot Grigio
Selection™
Ready in 6 weeks$191.00$191.00The uniquely Italian version of the well known Pinot Gris grape, picked earlier in Italy than in all other regions and well before its characteristic loss of acidity at ripening, for a bright, crisp, dry white wine with a gentle perfume and a detectable spiciness. Fresh, fragrant and lively, its flavours include a certain flintiness with hints of citrus and almonds.
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